Overview
- It is a unique collection of Pattee’s papers on foundational principles relating physics, life, and informational symbol systems
- It establishes the necessity of symbolic constraints on physical laws for life and evolution
- It is an approach to reconciling the information processing (symbolic) and dynamic models of cognition
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Biosemiotics (BSEM, volume 7)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Commentary and History
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The Pattee Papers in Chronological Order
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: LAWS, LANGUAGE and LIFE
Book Subtitle: Howard Pattee’s classic papers on the physics of symbols with contemporary commentary
Authors: Howard Hunt Pattee, Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi
Series Title: Biosemiotics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5161-3
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5160-6Published: 08 December 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8511-2Published: 29 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5161-3Published: 09 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1875-4651
Series E-ISSN: 1875-466X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 336
Topics: Life Sciences, general, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Cognitive Psychology, Bioinformatics, Philosophy of Language, Epistemology