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Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell - Softcover

Bray, Dennis

 
9780300167849: Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0300167849 ISBN 13: 9780300167849
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

In the tradition of as Erwin Schrödinger’s What Is Life? and Richard Dawkins’s The Selfish Gene, a distinguished cell biologist explains how living cells perform computations

How does a single-cell creature, such as an amoeba, lead such a sophisticated life? How does it hunt living prey, respond to lights, sounds, and smells, and display complex sequences of movements without the benefit of a nervous system? This book offers a startling and original answer.

In clear, jargon-free language, Dennis Bray taps the findings of the new discipline of systems biology to show that the internal chemistry of living cells is a form of computation. Cells are built out of molecular circuits that perform logical operations, as electronic devices do, but with unique properties. Bray argues that the computational juice of cells provides the basis of all the distinctive properties of living systems: it allows organisms to embody in their internal structure an image of the world, and this accounts for their adaptability, responsiveness, and intelligence.

In Wetware, Bray offers imaginative, wide-ranging and perceptive critiques of robotics and complexity theory, as well as many entertaining and telling anecdotes. For the general reader, the practicing scientist, and all others with an interest in the nature of life, the book is an exciting portal to some of biology’s latest discoveries and ideas.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Dennis Bray is professor emeritus, University of Cambridge, and coauthor of several influential texts on molecular and cell biology. In 2007, he was awarded the prestigious European Science Prize in Computational Biology.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300167849
ISBN 13 
9780300167849
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
267
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