Theoretical approaches to holistic biological features: Pattern formation, neural networks and the brain-mind relation

Journal of Biosciences

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 195-205

  Gierer, Alfred ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Consciousness; Goedel; Heisenberg; Human genome; Lateral inhibition; Systems theory; Trembley; Turing; Wolff

Indexed keywords

THEORETICAL STUDY;

COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; EMPATHY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROBIOLOGY; REVIEW; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMAN; MENTAL FUNCTION; MORPHOGENESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; SCIENCE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

BODY PATTERNING; BRAIN; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NERVE NET; SCIENCE; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0036014996     PISSN: 02505991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02704909     Document Type: Review

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