Role of utility and inference in the evolution of functional information

Biosemiotics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 101-115

  Sharov, Alexei A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Biosemiotics; Evolution; Inference; Pragmatism; Self organization; Semantic closure; Umwelt

Indexed keywords

EID: 65049084678     PISSN: 18751342     EISSN: 18751350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12304-008-9032-2     Document Type: Article

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