Where does Pattee's "How does a molecule become a message?" belong in the history of Biosemiotics?

Biosemiotics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 269-290

  Umerez, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

Author keywords

Code; Complementarity; Control; Dynamics; Epistemic cut; Semantic closure; Semiotic

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949625438     PISSN: 18751342     EISSN: 18751350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12304-009-9064-2     Document Type: Article

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