From Matter to Life
Information and Causality
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About This Book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- About the authors
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Physics and Life
- Part II Bio from Bit
- Part III Life's Hidden Information
- Part IV Complexity and Causality
- Part V From Matter to Mind
- Index