Reviving the living : meaning making in living systems /
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...
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam ; Oxford :
Elsevier,
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| Series: | Studies in multidisciplinarity ;
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 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.