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Self-modifying systems in biology and cognitive science : a new framework for dynamics, information, and complexity /

The theme of this book is the self-generation of information by the self-modification of systems. The author explains why biological and cognitive processes exhibit identity changes in the mathematical and logical sense. This concept is the basis of a new organizational principle which utilizes shif...

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Main Authors: Kampis, George. (Author)
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology.
Published: Pergamon Press,
Publisher Address: Oxford ; New York :
Publication Dates: 1991.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Edition: First edition.
Series: IFSR international series on systems science and engineering ; volume 6
Subjects:
Self-organizing systems.
Mathematical models.
Computational complexity.
Control theory.
Biology.
Information theory.
Syste mes auto-organise s.
Mode les mathe matiques.
Complexite de calcul (Informatique)
Commande, The orie de la.
Biologie.
Information, The orie de l'
SCIENCE > System Theory.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Operations Research.
Mathe matiques.
Ordinateurs.
The orie information.
Selbstorganisation.
Informationstheorie.
Electronic books.
Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780080369792
Summary: The theme of this book is the self-generation of information by the self-modification of systems. The author explains why biological and cognitive processes exhibit identity changes in the mathematical and logical sense. This concept is the basis of a new organizational principle which utilizes shifts of the internal semantic relations in systems. There are mathematical discussions of various classes of systems (Turing machines, input-output systems, synergetic systems, non-linear dynamics etc), which are contrasted with the author's new principle. The most important implications of this include a new conception on the nature of information and which also provides a new and coherent conceptual view of a wide class of natural systems. This book merits the attention of all philosophers and scientists concerned with the way we create reality in our mathematical representations of the world and the connection those representations have with the way things really are.
Item Description: Errata sheet laid in.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xix, 543 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 491-517) and indexes.
ISBN: 9780080912394
0080912397
Index Number: Q325
CLC: N94

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