From matter to life : information and causality
- Publication/Creation:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017
- Resource Type:
- Book
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- Full Title:
- From matter to life : information and causality / edited by Sara Imari Walker, Arizona State University, Paul C. W. Davies, Arizona State University, George F. R. Ellis, University of Cape Town
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- Additional Author/Creators:
- Walker, Sara Imari, editor
Davies, P. C. W., editor
Ellis, George F. R. (George Francis Rayner), editor
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- Summary:
- Recent advances suggest that the concept of information might hold the key to unravelling the mystery of life's nature and origin. Fresh insights from a broad and authoritative range of articulate and respected experts focus on the transition from matter to life, and hence reconcile the deep conceptual schism between the way we describe physical and biological systems. A unique cross-disciplinary perspective, drawing on expertise from philosophy, biology, chemistry, physics, and cognitive and social sciences, provides a new way to look at the deepest questions of our existence. This book addresses the role of information in life, and how it can make a difference to what we know about the world. Students, researchers, and all those interested in what life is and how it began will gain insights into the nature of life and its origins that touch on nearly every domain of science.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Type/Description:
- 1 online resource (xxii, 494 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- General Note:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Mar 2017).
- Local Note:
- Available to current Emory faculty, students and staff.
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- Catalog ID (MMSID):
- 9936928301302486
- ISBN:
- 9781316584200
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