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Reviving the living = meaning making in living systems /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Reviving the living/ Yair Neuman.
Reminder of title:	meaning making in living systems /
Author:	Neuman, Yair,
Published:	Amsterdam ;Elsevier, : 2008.,
Description:	1 online resource (289 p.)
Subject:	Life sciences - Philosophy. -
Online resource:	http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780444530332
ISBN:	9780444530332

Reviving the living = meaning making in living systems /
Neuman, Yair,1968-

Reviving the livingmeaning making in living systems /[electronic resource] :Yair Neuman. - Amsterdam ;Elsevier,2008. - 1 online resource (289 p.) - Studies in multidisciplinarity ;v. 6. - Studies in multidisciplinarity ;v. 4..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

PART 1. HOW LOW CAN YOU GO? REDUCTIONISM AND ITS LIMITATIONS -- Ch. 1: What is Reductionism? -- Ch. 2: Who is Reading the Book of Life? -- Ch. 3: Genetics: From Grammar to Meaning Making -- Ch. 4: A Point for Thought: Why are Organisms Irreducible? -- Ch. 5: A Point for Thought: Does the Genetic System Include a Meta-Language? -- Ch. 6: Immunology: From Soldiers to Housewives? -- Ch. 7: A Point for Thought: Immune Specificity and Brancusi's Kiss -- Ch. 8: A Point for Thought: Reflections on the Immune Self -- PART 2. WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS STORY? -- Ch. 9: Meaning Making in Language and Biology -- Ch. 10: God's Sacred Words -- Ch. 11: It Means Nothing -- Ch. 12: A Point for Thought: Meaning-Bridging the Gap Between Physics and Semantics -- Ch. 13: The Rest is Silence -- PART 3. ON THE WILD SIDE: FOUR LESSONS -- Ch. 14: The Polysemy of the Sign: A Quantum Lesson -- Ch. 15: Recursive-Hierarchy: A Lesson From the Tardigrade -- Ch. 16: Context and Memory: A Lesson From Funes the Memorious -- Ch. 17: Transgradience: A Lesson from Bakhtin -- PART 4. FROM MECHANICS TO POIESIS -- Ch. 18: The Poetry of Living.

Modern biology portrays living systems, from the amoeba to the human organism, as mechanical toys shaped by the brute logic of natural selection. In "Reviving the Living": Meaning Making in Living Systems, Dr. Yair Neuman challenges the dogmas that frame our understanding of living systems and presents an alternative that avoids the pitfalls of non-scientific perspectives such as Vitalism and Creationism. In this thought provoking and iconoclastic manuscript, Dr. Neuman follows the footsteps of Gregory Bateson, Mikhail Bakhtin, Michael Polanyi and others, to suggest that living systems are "meaning making" systems. Dr. Neuman delves into the unique processes of meaning making that characterize organisms as a unique category of nature, and presents new and fascinating insights into a variety of enigmatic biological phenomena from immune memory to hidden life (cryptobiosis). Written by a polymath, Reviving the Living is a tour-de-force in interdisciplinary research which is of high interest to any reflective individual who is willing to examine the realm of the living from a novel and fascinating perspective. * Presents a novel perspective that relates to current biological knowledge and issues * Poses thought provoking ideas for theoretical biologists, those studying philosophy of science and the mind, cognitive scientists, semioticians, and people involved with Artificial Intelligence. * Includes examples based in current science to illustrate core concepts and themes.

ISBN: 9780444530332

Source: 114535:114628Elsevier Science & Technologyhttp://www.sciencedirect.comSubjects--Topical Terms:

324938
Life sciences
--Philosophy.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

96803
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: QH331 / .N48 2008eb

Dewey Class. No.: 570.1

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