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Physics, Computation, and Why Biology Looks so Different

โœ Scribed by J.J. Hopfield

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1994
Tongue
English
Weight
434 KB
Volume
171
Category
Article
ISSN
0022-5193

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โœฆ Synopsis

The biological world is a physical system whose properties and behaviors seem entirely foreign to physics. The origins of this discrepancy lie in the very high information content in biological systems (the large amount of dynamically broken symmetry) and the evolutionary value placed on predicting the future (computation) in an environment which is inhomogeneous in time and in space. Within this context, "free will" can be described as a useful predictive myth.

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