Autonomy: An information theoretic perspective

BioSystems

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 331-345

  Bertschinger, Nils ^a   Olbrich, Eckehard ^a   Ay, Nihat ^a   Jost, Jürgen ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICS IN THE SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Causality; Closure; Information theory; Systems theory

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMY; CLOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY; SYNERGISM; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; ENTROPY; ENVIRONMENT; LIFE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 37549019681     PISSN: 03032647     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2007.05.018     Document Type: Article

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