The antithesis of entropy: Biosemiotic communication from genetics to human language with special emphasis on the immune systems

Entropy

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 631-705

  Oller Jr , John W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstractive cycle; Biosemiotics; Brain architecture; Embryological development; Human neuroarchitecture; Immune systems; Information theory; Language acquisition; Learning to read; Pragmatic mapping; Self consciousness; Sign hierarchy; Systems grammar; Theory of abstraction; True narrative representations

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953522364     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10994300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/e12040631     Document Type: Article

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