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LAWS, LANGUAGE and LIFE - Howard Pattee's classic papers on the physics of symbols with contemporary commentary (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
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LAWS, LANGUAGE and LIFE - Howard Pattee's classic papers on the physics of symbols with contemporary commentary (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
Series: Biosemiotics, 7
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Howard Pattee is a physicist who for many years has taken his own
path in studying the physics of symbols, which is now a foundation
for biosemiotics. By extending von Neumann's logical requirements
for self-replication, to the physical requirements of symbolic
instruction at the molecular level, he concludes that a form of
quantum measurement is necessary for life. He explains why all
non-dynamic symbolic and informational controls act as special
(allosteric) constraints on dynamical systems. Pattee also points
out that symbols do not exist in isolation but in coordinated
symbol systems we call languages. Such insights turn out to be
necessary to situate biosemiotics as an objective scientific
endeavor. By proposing a way to relate quiescent symbolic
constraints to dynamics, Pattee's work builds a bridge between
physical, biological, and psychological models that are based on
dynamical systems theory. Pattee's work awakes new interest in
cognitive scientists, where his recognition of the necessary
separation-the epistemic cut-between the subject and object
provides a basis for a complementary third way of relating the
purely symbolic, computational models of cognition and the purely
dynamic, non-representational models. This selection of Pattee's
papers also addresses several other fields, including hierarchy
theory, artificial life, self-organization, complexity theory, and
the complementary epistemologies of the physical and biological
sciences.
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