Information, The Hidden Side of Life
暫譯: 資訊：生命的隱秘面向
Cédric Gaucherel, Pierre-Henri Gouyon, Jean-Louis Dessalles
- 出版商: Wiley-Iste
- 出版日期: 2019-04-09
- 售價: $5,450
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $5,178
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 212
- 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
- ISBN: 1786304244
- ISBN-13: 9781786304247
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商品描述
This book explores the unity of life. It proposes that the concept of information is the inner essence of what we today call life.
The importance of information for our species is obvious. Human beings are highly dependent on information, constantly exchanging with conspecifics. In a less apparent way, we are the product of genetic and epigenetic information which determines our development in a given environment from a fertilized egg to the adult stage. Even less apparent is that information plays a determining role in ecosystems. This observation may include the prebiotic systems in which life emerged.
Our claim is that Nature processes information continuously. This means that even beyond living entities, we can see messages and decoding procedures. Nature can be said to send messages to its own future and then to decode them. Nature "talks" to itself The systematic organization of messages suggests that, in some respects, we should even speak of the "languages" of Nature.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書探討生命的統一性。它提出資訊的概念是我們今天所稱的生命的內在本質。
資訊對於我們物種的重要性顯而易見。人類高度依賴資訊，持續與同類進行交流。在不那麼明顯的方式中，我們是基因和表觀遺傳資訊的產物，這些資訊決定了我們從受精卵到成年的發展。在生態系統中，資訊扮演著決定性的角色，這一點更不明顯。這一觀察可能包括生命出現之前的系統。
我們的主張是自然不斷處理資訊。這意味著即使在生物體之外，我們也能看到訊息和解碼過程。可以說，自然向自己的未來發送訊息，然後再解碼這些訊息。自然在「對話」自己。訊息的系統性組織表明，在某些方面，我們甚至應該談論自然的「語言」。
作者簡介
Cédric Gaucherel is a researcher at INRA and holds a PhD in Astrophysics and an HdR in Theoretical Ecology. Among various environmental subjects, he studies ecosystem functioning with cutting-edge concepts and mathematical models.
Pierre-Henri Gouyon is a Professor at the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, AgroParisTech, Sciences Po and the Ecole Normale Supérieure in France. He is a researcher studying evolution and its mechanisms at all scales, from genes to ecosystems.
Jean-Louis Dessalles is a Professor at Télécom ParisTech, France, and is involved in the quest for fundamental principles underlying the language faculty and its biological origins. He also uses mathematical modeling to test the hypothesis of the political origins of human language.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
是法國國家農業研究所（INRA）的研究員，擁有天體物理學博士學位及理論生態學的高級研究資格（HdR）。他研究各種環境主題，專注於使用尖端概念和數學模型來研究生態系統的功能。
是法國國立自然歷史博物館（Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle）、巴黎農業科技大學（AgroParisTech）、政治科學院（Sciences Po）及高等師範學校（Ecole Normale Supérieure）的教授。他是一位研究進化及其機制的學者，研究範圍涵蓋從基因到生態系統的各個層面。
是法國巴黎電信科技大學（Télécom ParisTech）的教授，致力於探索語言能力的基本原則及其生物學起源。他還利用數學建模來檢驗人類語言的政治起源假說。
