Is information a proper observable for biological organization?
Is information a proper observable for biological organization?
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DOI：
10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2012.06.004
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发表时间：
2012-08
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Soto AM
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作者：
Longo G;Miquel PA;Sonnenschein C;Soto AM
上个世纪，随着计算机的出现，有关信息的数学理论应运而生。此后不久，在分子生物学的兴起期间，信息的概念迅速转移到整个生物学中。一些哲学家和生物学家基于认识论和本体论的论证反对采用这一概念，也是因为它鼓励了基因决定论。虽然阐述和传递信息的理论是有效的数学理论，但它们自身的逻辑和隐含的因果结构使它们对生物学有害，因此，它们的应用已经并正在阻碍健全的有机体理论的发展。我们的分析集中在数学中信息理论的发展，以及这些理论之间关于复杂性、信息和熵之间关系的差异。
In the last century, jointly with the advent of computers, mathematical theories of information were developed. Shortly thereafter, during the ascent of molecular biology, the concept of information was rapidly transferred into biology at large. Several philosophers and biologists have argued against adopting this concept based on epistemological and ontological arguments, and also, because it encouraged genetic determinism. While the theories of elaboration and transmission of information are valid mathematical theories, their own logic and implicit causal structure make them inimical to biology, and because of it, their applications have and are hindering the development of a sound theory of organisms. Our analysis concentrates on the development of information theories in mathematics and on the differences between these theories regarding the relationship among complexity, information and entropy.
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影响因子：
1.6
作者：
Bailly, Francis;Longo, Giuseppe
通讯作者：
Longo, Giuseppe
影响因子：
2.5
作者：
Kasemeier-Kulesa, Jennifer C.;Teddy, Jessica M.;Postovit, Lynne-Marie;Seftor, Elisabeth A.;Seftor, Richard E. B.;Hendrix, Mary J. C.;Kulesa, Paul M.
通讯作者：
Kulesa, Paul M.
影响因子：
11.2
作者：
Bussard KM;Boulanger CA;Booth BW;Bruno RD;Smith GH
通讯作者：
Smith GH
影响因子：
9.2
作者：
Farge, E
通讯作者：
Farge, E
影响因子：
56.9
作者：
ANFINSEN, CB
通讯作者：
ANFINSEN, CB