Hi Gavin and others. Try Information in biological systems ( http://web.ncf.ca/collier/papers/Information%20in%20Biological%20Systems.pdf ) (Handbook of Philosophy of Science, vol 8, Philosophy of Information ( http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/716648/description#description ), 2008, Chapter 5f). It isn't complete (you need some of my other papers to get the quantity of information innate, transmitted (causally) and received, as well as its effects. http://web.ncf.ca/collier/papers/Information%20in%20Biological%20Systems.pdf Information, causation and computation ( http://web.ncf.ca/collier/papers/CollierJohn%20formatted.pdf ) (Information and Computation: ( http://astore.amazon.co.uk/books-books-21/detail/9814295477 ) Essays on Scientific and Philosophical Understanding of Foundations of Information and Computation, Ed by Gordana Dodig Crnkovic and Mark Burgin, World Scientific) http://web.ncf.ca/collier/papers/CollierJohn%20formatted.pdf Causation is the Transfer of Information ( http://web.ncf.ca/collier/papers/causinf.pdf ) (1999) http://web.ncf.ca/collier/papers/causinf.pdf Complexly Organised Dynamical Systems ( http://web.ncf.ca/collier/papers/Cods.pdf ) with C.A. Hooker (1999) http://web.ncf.ca/collier/papers/Cods.pdf Hierarchical dynamical information systems with a focus on biology ( http://www.mdpi.org/entropy/papers/e5020100.pdf ) (Entropy 2003) http://www.mdpi.org/entropy/papers/e5020100.pdf There are others that might be relevant on my web page http://web.ncf.ca/collier/papers.html John
Professor John Collier Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal Durban 4041 South Africa T: +27 (31) 260 3248 / 260 2292 F: +27 (31) 260 3031 email: colli...@ukzn.ac.za>>> On 2012/03/16 at 11:14 PM, in message <1331932479.81758.yahoomail...@web96106.mail.aue.yahoo.com>, Gavin Ritz <garr...@xtra.co.nz> wrote: Hi FISers Can anyone show me a calculus for Information relating to biological systems? And if so show me the relationship with conceptual mathematics? Regards Gavin Dear FISers: Pedro and Plamen raise good and welcomed points regarding the nature of physics, information, and biology. Although I believe in a strong relationship between information and physics in biology, there are striking examples where direct correspondences between information, physics, and biology seem to depart. Scientists are only beginning to tease out these discrepancies which will undoubtedly give us a better understand of information. For example, in the study of cognition by A. Khrennikov and colleagues and J. Busemyer and colleagues, decisional processes may conform to quantum statistics and computation without necessarily being mediated by quantum mechanical phenomena at a biological level of description. I found this to be true in ciliates as well, where social strategy search speeds and decision rates may produce quantum computational phases that obey quantum statistics. In such cases, a changing classical diffusion term of response regulator reaction-diffusion parsimoniously accounts for the transition from classical to quantum information processing. Thus, there is no direct correspondence between quantum physicochemistry and quantum computation. Because the particular reaction-diffusion biochemistry is not unique to ciliates (i.e., the same phenomena is observed in plants, animals, and possibly bacteria), this incongruity may be widespread across life. Best regards, Kevin Clark _______________________________________________ fis mailing list fis@listas.unizar.es https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis Please find our Email Disclaimer here: http://www.ukzn.ac.za/disclaimer/
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