Functional information: Towards synthesis of biosemiotics and cybernetics

Entropy

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1050-1070

  Sharov, Alexei A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent; Biological complexity; Biological signal processing; Biosemiotics; Cybernetics; Evolution; Functional information; Learning; Origin of life; Umwelt

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953487880     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e12051050     Document Type: Article

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