Publication 2018 : An Edited Book

LIFE SCIENCES, INFORMATION SCIENCES
Thierry GAUDIN, Dominique LACROIX, Marie-Christine MAUREL, Jean-Charles POMEROL (ed.)
Developed from presentations given at the Cerisy SVSI (Sciences de la vie, sciences de l'information) conference held in 2016, this book presents a broad overview of thought and research at the intersection of life sciences and information sciences.
The contributors to this edited volume explore life and information on an equal footing, with each considered as crucial to the other. In the first part of the book, the relation of life and information in the functioning of genes, at both the phylogenetic and ontogenetic levels, is articulated and the common understanding of DNA as code is problematized from a range of perspectives. The second part of the book homes in on the algorithmic nature of information, questioning the fit between life and automaton and the accompanying division between individualization and invariance.
Consisting of both philosophical speculation and ethological research, the explorations in this book are a timely intervention into prevailing understandings of the relation between information and life.
Publication of Cerisy Symposiums (2016) [For more information]
Not available from the CCIC [n°570bis]
Publisher : ISTE Ltd // John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Collection : Digital Culture & the Information Age
ISBN : 978-1-786-30243-4
Length : 400 p.
Illustrations : Black & White
Price : 165.00 USD
Publication Date : 2018
Biology, Epigenetic, Evolution, Genetic, Individuation, Information Science, Interaction, Life, Life Sciences, Origins
Preface
Selection of Publications
Introduction
PART 1. FROM GENE TO SPECIES : VARIABILITY, RANDOMNESS AND STABILITY
The Emergence of Life : Some Notes on the Origin of Biological Information, by Antonio LAZCANO
Fluctuating RNA, Giuseppe ZACCAI, by Marie-Christine MAUREL & Ada YONATH
Artificial Darwinian Evolution of Nucleic Acids, by Frédéric DUCONGÉ
Information and Epigenetics, by András PÁLDI
Molecular Forces and Motion in the Transmission of Information in Biology, by Giuseppe ZACCAI
Decline and Contingency, Bases of Biological Evolution, by Bernard DUJON
Conservation, Co-evolution and Dynamics: From Sequence to Function, by Alessandra CARBONE
Localization of the Morphodynamic Information in Amniote Formation, by Vincent FLEURY
From the Century of the Gene to that of the Organism : Introduction to New Theoretical Perspectives, by Maël MONTÉVIL, Giuseppe LONGO & Ana SOTO
The Game of Survival, Chance and Complexity, by Philippe KOURILSKY
Life from the Origins to Homo sapiens, by Jean FOURTAUX
Plankton Chronicles and the Tara Expeditions, by Christian SARDET
The Living Species is Not a Natural Kind but an Intellectual Construction, by Philippe GRANDCOLAS
The Boxes and their Content : What to Do with Invariants in Biology ?, by Guillaume LECOINTRE
Probability, Sense and Evolution (Promenade), by Cédric VILLANI
PART 2. PROGRAM AND LIFE : INDIVIDUATION AND INTERACTION
Towards an Algorithmic Approach to Life Sciences, by Gérard BERRY
Where Does the Notion of Function Come From ?, by Heinz WISSMANN
The Contribution of Artificial Life to Theoretical Biology, by Hugues BERSINI
Biochemical Programs and Analog-Digital Mixed Algorithms in the Cell, by François FAGES & Guillaume LE GULUDEC
From Computational Physics to the Origins of Life, by A. Marco SAITTA
Computing and the Temptation of Babel, by Kavé SALAMATIAN
Big Data, Knowledge and Biology, by Giuseppe LONGO & Maël MONTÉVIL
Natural Language, Formal Language and the Description of the Living World, by Régine VIGNES LEBBE
Vital Individuation and Morphogenetic Information, by Vincent BONTEMS
How to Account for Interspecies Socio-cultural Phenomena ? An Evolutionist and Interactionist Model, by Dominique GUILLO
Life : A Simplex Whirlwind between Matter, Energy and Information, by Jean-Claude BARREY
Nutritional Interactions through the Living : from Individuals to Societies and Beyond, by Mathieu LIHOREAU
Epigenetic Regulation of Protein Biosynthesis by Scale Resonance : Study of the Reduction of ESCA Effects on Vines in Field Applications – Summary 2016, by Pedro FERRANDIZ, Michel DUHAMEL & Joël STERNHEIMER
Quantum and Multiverse Inflation, by Michel CASSÉ
Reontologization of the World and of Life, by Jean-Gabriel GANASCIA
Redesigning Life, a Serious and Credible Research Agenda ?, by Bernadette BENSAUDE VINCENT
Transhumanism and the Future of Negation, by Jean-Michel BESNIER
List of Authors
Index