Category: biology
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Books on entropy and information
A list of books from Prof Gordon http://groups.google.com/group/embryophysics/msg/e9229530251b7d58 While I might agree with you on the misuse of “entropy” in biology, many people would disagree with you, as evidenced by the list of books below. Adami, C. & N.J. Cerf (1999). What information theory can tell us about quantum reality. In: Quantum Computing and Quantum…
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Biology and Physics
My messages to the everything-list http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/t/79a721c063a6c37a 28.01.2012 13:04: Let my quote Jeffery A. Gray, (Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem p. 33) on biology and physics. “In very general terms, biology makes use of two types of concept: physicochemical laws and feedback mechanisms. The latter include both the feedback operative in natural selection, in which…
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Evolution vs. God
Some time ago sergei_sh has brought to my attention the works of Jeffrey A. Gray and I have decided to read his book, Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem. I will definitely write more about it, as I like it a lot. Right now one statement not that related to the main content of the…
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Quantum Microbiology
J. T. Trevors and L. Masson Quantum Microbiology Curr. Issues Mol. Biol. 13: 43-50, 2011 http://www.horizonpress.com/cimb/v/v13/43.pdf A couple of sentence from the abstract to show what the paper is about. “During his famous 1943 lecture series at Trinity College Dublin, the renown physicist Erwin Schrödinger discussed the failure and challenges of interpreting life by classical…
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Perception, Feedback, and Qualia
Dick and Natalie Gordon have started a course Embryogenesis Explained in Second Life. The course is based on the book that they write. The first lecture was How Embryogenesis Began in Evolution and it corresponds to the first chapter in the book. I should say that I like the lecture as well as the draft…
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What crazy scientists make with brain nowadays
I have received an offer to download one audio book for free from Audible.de. Well, it happens that they have their own audio format, not mp3 and they use DRM. However, it was working with my iPod Shuffle and I have decided to take a bite. In Russian this called “halyava” and I could not resist…
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The Universality of Life
Some citations from Christian De Duve, Vital Dust 1995. Chapter 13, The Universality of Life In the introduction to this book, I argued on theoretical grounds – remember the thirteen spades – that the ermergance of life must have involved a very large number of steps, most of which had a high probability of occuring under…
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Ernst Peter Fischer about Darwin
Ernst Peter Fischer ist ein deutscher Wissenschaftshistoriker und Wissenschaftspublizist. Der Affe als Mensch, der Mensch als Affe, Darwin und seine Evolutionstheorie An interesting point about how Darwin has developed his theory: Erst langsam ist Darwin auf die Idee gekommen, dass es so etwas wie einen Wandel oder eine Anpassung von Arten geben konnte. Allerdings –…