[mainstream biology]"remains basically concerned with the flow of matter and energy into and between living entities, failing to recognise [that] the information flow is at least as important" - Gerrard Battail, Telecom Paris-Tech
- this is actually a quote from an article by Liz Else in This Week's New Scientist magazine (No 2774, 21st Aug 2010) about the growing field of "biosemiontics". "Biosemiotics" could be roughly deinfed as "the study of biological signals and their importance to living organisms". Liz Else's article also quotes Kalevi Kull from the University of Tartu in Estonia on the same subject; generating this more complicated description of Biosemiotics and its importance-
"Biology has studied how organisms and living communities are built. But it is no less important to understand what such living systems know, in a broad sense; that is, what they remember.....what they recognise (what distinctions they are capable and not capable of), what signs they explore (how they communicate, make meanings and use signs) and so on. These questions are all about how different living systems perceive the world, how they model the world, what experience motivates what actions, based on those perceptions"
Liz Else's full article is onsale in New Scientist magazine. The article also recommends this link http://www.bit.ly/axHqMO
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