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LAWS, LANGUAGE and LIFE
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 scien...
The Consciousness Instinct
" The Consciousness Instinct could be the clearest and most compelling attempt to demystify the mind yet written." —Julian Baggini, The Wall Street Journal How do neurons turn into minds? How does physical "stuff"—atoms, molecules, chemicals, and cells—create the vivid and various worlds inside our heads? The problem of consciousness has gnawed at us for millennia. In the last century there have been massive breakthroughs that have rewritten the science of the brain, and yet the puzzles faced by the ancient Greeks are still present. In The Consciousness Instinct, the neuroscience pioneer Michael S. Gazzaniga puts the latest research in conversation with the history of human thinking ab...
Glimpsing Reality
Originally published in 1979. This reprints the revised and expanded edition of 1996. In this volume, physicists, biologists and chemists, who have been involved in some of the most exciting discoveries in modern scientific thought explore issues which have shaped modern physics and which hint at what may form the next scientific revolution. The major issues discussed are the understanding of time and space, quantum and relativity theories and recent attempts to unite them and related questions in theoretical biology.
Essential Readings in Biosemiotics
Synthesizing the findings from a wide range of disciplines – from biology and anthropology to philosophy and linguistics – the emerging field of Biosemiotics explores the highly complex phenomenon of sign processing in living systems. Seeking to advance a naturalistic understanding of the evolution and development of sign-dependent life processes, contemporary biosemiotic theory offers important new conceptual tools for the scientific understanding of mind and meaning, for the development of artificial intelligence, and for the ongoing research into the rich diversity of non-verbal human, animal and biological communication processes. Donald Favareau’s Essential Readings in Biosemiotic...
L' Instinct de conscience
Comment le cerveau fabrique-t-il l’esprit ? Comment la matière, des atomes et molécules aux cellules, crée-t-elle le foisonnement infini des mondes qui se trouvent dans notre tête, si incroyable et si banal à la fois ? La conscience est une énigme depuis des millénaires. Au siècle dernier, la science a fait de grandes percées dans la connaissance du cerveau, mais les questions auxquelles les Grecs de l’Antiquité étaient confrontés sont toujours présentes. Dans ce livre, Michael S. Gazzaniga, pionnier des neurosciences, fait dialoguer la recherche la plus récente et l’histoire des conceptions de l’esprit pour offrir une vue d’ensemble de ce que la science a révélé s...
Glimpsing Reality
A collection of interviews and conversations with physicists, biologists, and chemists involved in this century's most exciting discoveries in modern scientific thought, originating in a Canadian Broadcasting Corp. radio series. Scientists including Werner Heisenberg and David Joseph Bohm discuss the origins and recent developments of quantum and relativity theories and theoretical biology. Includes a glossary. Accessible to students and general readers. Previously published in 1979 under the title A Question of Physics, this edition adds an overview of advances in the field, plus a new conversation and two new essays. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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