Reviving the living meaning making in living systems / Yair Neuman.
| Author/creator | Neuman, Yair, 1968- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, |
| Description | xxix, 289 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBook - Psychology pre-2007 |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBook - Psychology 2008 |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in multidisciplinarity ; v. 6 Studies in multidisciplinarity ; v. 6. ^A945879 |
| Contents | What is reductionism? -- Who is reading the book of life? -- Genetics : from grammar to meaning making -- A point for thought : why are organisms irreducible? -- A point for thought : does the genetic system include a meta-language? -- Immunology : from soldiers to housewives -- A point for thought : immune specificity and Brancusi's kiss -- A point for thought : reflections on the immune self -- Meaning making in language and biology -- A point for thought : meaning : bridging the gap between physics and semantics -- The rest is silence -- The polysemy of the sign : a quantum lesson -- Recursive-hierarchy : a lesson from the tardigrade -- Context and memory : a lesson from funes the memorious -- Transgradience : a lesson from Bakhtin -- The poetry of living. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [273]-284) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2010293107 |
| ISBN | 9780444530332 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 0444530339 (hbk.) |