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Metabiology - Non-standard Models, General Semantics and Natural Evolution (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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Metabiology - Non-standard Models, General Semantics and Natural Evolution (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, 50
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In the context of life sciences, we are constantly confronted with
information that possesses precise semantic values and appears
essentially immersed in a specific evolutionary trend. In such a
framework, Nature appears, in Monod's words, as a tinkerer
characterized by the presence of precise principles of
self-organization. However, while Monod was obliged to incorporate
his brilliant intuitions into the framework of first-order
cybernetics and a theory of information with an exclusively
syntactic character such as that defined by Shannon, research
advances in recent decades have led not only to the definition of a
second-order cybernetics but also to an exploration of the
boundaries of semantic information. As H. Atlan states, on a
biological level "the function self-organizes together with its
meaning". Hence the need to refer to a conceptual theory of
complexity and to a theory of self-organization characterized in an
intentional sense. There is also a need to introduce, at the
genetic level, a distinction between coder and ruler as well as the
opportunity to define a real software space for natural evolution.
The recourse to non-standard model theory, the opening to a new
general semantics, and the innovative definition of the
relationship between coder and ruler can be considered, today,
among the most powerful theoretical tools at our disposal in order
to correctly define the contours of that new conceptual revolution
increasingly referred to as metabiology. This book focuses on
identifying and investigating the role played by these particular
theoretical tools in the development of this new scientific
paradigm. Nature "speaks" by means of mathematical forms: we can
observe these forms, but they are, at the same time, inside us as
they populate our organs of cognition. In this context, the volume
highlights how metabiology appears primarily to refer to the growth
itself of our instruments of participatory knowledge of the world.
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