The definitions of information and meaning: Two possible boundaries between physics and biology

Rivista di Biologia - Biology Forum

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 91-110

  Barbieri, Marcello ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

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