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    From the head to the heart: Some thoughts on similarities between brain function and morphogenesis, and on their significance for research methodology and biological theory (1988)
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    Cellular and molecular life sciences 44 (1988), S. 960-971 
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    ISSN: 1420-9071
    Keywords: Morphogenesis ; regulation ; localization ; variation ; levels of organization ; autonomy ; homeostasis ; distributed function ; experience dependence ; brain development ; brain function ; information
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Summary A broad review of the phenomena of morphogenesis and of brain function, and of the history of research in these two areas, suggests that there are quite striking similarities between the two sets of biological phenomena. Among other things, both reflect the interaction of internally complex components at several levels of organization, display variance as an essential characteristic, and incorporate information from the environment. It is argued that reductionist approaches are inadequate to deal with fundamental problems of either morphogenesis or brain function, and alternative foundations for research strategy and tactics are discussed. Attention is also given to the question of why morphogenesis and brain function are so similar, and it is suggested that this may reflect the existence of rules of information acquisition, transmission, and storage to which both are subject. Variance, it is argued, is an essential component of information acquisition processes, and hence of biological integrity, at all levels of organization.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01939890
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    On the moral acceptability of killing animals (1988)
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    Journal of agricultural and environmental ethics 1 (1988), S. 155-162 
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    ISSN: 1573-322X
    Keywords: animal rights ; moral vegetarianism ; “worse-off” principle ; Tom Regan
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition , Philosophy
    Notes: Abstract According to a “rights view” it is acceptable to kill animals if they are innocent threats or shields or are in a “lifeboat situation.” However, according to advocates of such a view, our practices of killing animals for food or scientific research may be morally unacceptable. In this paper we argue that, even if we grant the basic assumptions of a rights view, a good deal of killing of animals for food and scientific research continues to be morally acceptable.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01827032
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    The mind body problem and the second law of thermodynamics (1987)
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    Biology and philosophy 2 (1987), S. 271-275 
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    ISSN: 1572-8404
    Keywords: Mind ; body ; entropy ; information ; dualism ; second law of thermodynamics
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Philosophy
    Notes: Abstract Cartesian mind body dualism and modern versions of this viewpoint posit a mind thermodynamically unrelated to the body but informationally interactive. The relation between information and entropy developed by Leon Brillouin demonstrates that any information about the state of a system has entropic consequences. It is therefore impossible to dissociate the mind's information from the body's entropy. Knowledge of that state of the system without an energetically significant measurement would lead to a violation of the second law of thermodynamics.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00128833
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    Entropy and information in evolving biological systems (1989)
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    Biology and philosophy 4 (1989), S. 407-432 
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    ISSN: 1572-8404
    Keywords: evolution ; entropy ; information ; hierarchy ; ecology ; phylogeny ; natural selection
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Philosophy
    Notes: Abstract Integrating concepts of maintenance and of origins is essential to explaining biological diversity. The unified theory of evolution attempts to find a common theme linking production rules inherent in biological systems, explaining the origin of biological order as a manifestation of the flow of energy and the flow of information on various spatial and temporal scales, with the recognition that natural selection is an evolutionarily relevant process. Biological systems persist in space and time by transfor ming energy from one state to another in a manner that generates structures which allows the system to continue to persist. Two classes of energetic transformations allow this; heat-generating transformations, resulting in a net loss of energy from the system, and conservative transformations, changing unusable energy into states that can be stored and used subsequently. All conservative transformations in biological systems are coupled with heat-generating transformations; hence, inherent biological production, or genealogical proesses, is positively entropic. There is a self-organizing phenomenology common to genealogical phenomena, which imparts an arrow of time to biological systems. Natural selection, which by itself is time-reversible, contributes to the organization of the self-organized genealogical trajectories. The interplay of genealogical (diversity-promoting) and selective (diversity-limiting) processes produces biological order to which the primary contribution is genealogical history. Dynamic changes occuring on times scales shorter than speciation rates are microevolutionary; those occuring on time scales longer than speciation rates are macroevolutionary. Macroevolutionary processes are neither redicible to, nor autonomous from, microevolutionary processes.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00162588
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    Evolution in thermodynamic perspective: An ecological approach (1989)
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    Biology and philosophy 4 (1989), S. 373-405 
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    ISSN: 1572-8404
    Keywords: Noneequilibrium thermodynamics ; information ; informed patters of energy flow ; ecological hierarchy ; geneological hierarchy ; succession ; development ; Darwinian tradition ; reductionism ; teleology ; natural selection
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Philosophy
    Notes: Abstract Recognition that biological systems are stabilized far from equilibrium by self-organizing, informed, autocatalytic cycles and structures that dissipate unusable energy and matter has led to recent attempts to reformulate evolutionary theory. We hold that such insights are consistent with the broad development of the Darwinian Tradition and with the concept of natural selection. Biological systems are selected that re not only more efficient than competitors but also enhance the integrity of the web of energetic relations in which they are embedded. But the expansion of the informational phase space, upon which selection acts, is also guaranteed by the properties of open informational-energetic systems. This provides a directionality and irreversibility to evolutionary processes that are not reflected in current theory. For this thermodynamically-based program to progress, we believe that biological information should not be treated in isolation from energy flows, and that the ecological perspective must be given descriptive and explanatory primacy. Levels of the ecological hierarchy are relational parts of ecological systems in which there are stable, informed patterns of energy flow and entropic dissipation. Isomorphies between developmental patterns and ecological succession are revealing because they suggest that much of the encoded metabolic information in biological systems is internalized ecological information. The geneological hierarchy, to the extent that its information content reflects internalized ecological information, can therefore be redescribed as an ecological hierarchy. This thermodynamic approach to evolution frees evolutionary theory from dependence on a crypto-Newtonian language more appropriate to closed equilibrial systems than to biological systems. It grounds biology non-reductively in physical law, and drives a conceptual wedge between functions of artifacts and functions of natural systems. This countenances legitimate use of teleology grounded in natural, teleomatic laws.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00162587
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    Entropy in evolution (1986)
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    Biology and philosophy 1 (1986), S. 5-24 
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    ISSN: 1572-8404
    Keywords: Entropy ; evolution ; information ; thermodynamics
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Philosophy
    Notes: Abstract Daniel R. Brooks and E. O. Wiley have proposed a theory of evolution in which fitness is merely a rate determining factor. Evolution is driven by non-equilibrium processes which increase the entropy and information content of species together. Evolution can occur without environmental selection, since increased complexity and organization result from the likely “capture” at the species level of random variations produced at the chemical level. Speciation can occur as the result of variation within the species which decreases the probability of sharing genetic information. Critics of the Brooks-Wiley theory argue that they have abused terminology from information theory and t thermodynamics. In this paper I review the essentials of the theory, and give an account of hierarchical physical information systems within which the theory can be interpreted. I then show how the major conceptual objections can be answered.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00127087
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    Principles of signal coding by the discharge pattern of a neuron population (1986)
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    Neuroscience and behavioral physiology 16 (1986), S. 314-321 
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    ISSN: 1573-899X
    Keywords: group of neurons ; information ; coding ; stochastic dependence
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The principles of information coding by “rings” of stochastic dependence, formed by neuron populations, are described. Such a population was shown to be capable of existing only in strictly definite stochastic states, determined by a certain number of “rings” of stochastic dependence, A system consisting of a fixed number of neurons was shown to be able to code and transmit a number of different messages equal to the square of the number of stochastic states permitted for that system. The number of messages differing from each other either in the number of letters or their order in the word was equal to the number of permitted stochastic states, whereas the number of messages containing the same number of letters in the word was equal to the difference between the number of permitted stochastic states and the number of neurons in the system. The alphabet consists of two letters: A for assembling of the ring of stochastic dependence, and B for breaking of this ring, together with punctuation signs indicating neither assembling nor breaking (compared with the initial state) of stochastic dependence rings.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01148175
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    Standardized acquisition of bedside data: The IEEE P1073 medical information bus (1989)
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    Journal of clinical monitoring and computing 6 (1989), S. 197-204 
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    ISSN: 1573-2614
    Keywords: medical ; information ; bus ; network ; computer
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Computer Science , Medicine
    Notes: Abstract The absence of standards for medical device communications has stymied the acceptance and success of automated clinical data management systems. Even devices with simple RS-232 data output ports require special interfacing hardware and software. Due to the number and variety of medical devices available, each with their own peculiar data output configuration, it has been impractical to interface with most of them. Limited by manual data entry, most computerized patient data management systems have failed to deliver the productivity gains their users expected. The forthcoming IEEE P1073 Medical Information Bus (MIB) Standard promises to correct this situation with a single powerful bedside device interface method. The MIB will provide specifications for all hardware and software necessary for medical data communications. The MIB handles the need for automatic recognition of new devices placed at a bedside, automatic reconfiguration of the network, binding of a device to a particular patient's bedside and many other issues unique to the medical data communications environment. The MIB is expected to undergo formal IEEE balloting in 1990 and promises to open a new era in data management for clinical patient care.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01733623
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    Ethics and farm animal welfare (1988)
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    Journal of agricultural and environmental ethics 1 (1988), S. 305-318 
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    ISSN: 1573-322X
    Keywords: Animal welfare ; intensive agriculture ; animal rights
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Energy, Environment Protection, Nuclear Power Engineering , Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science, Nutrition , Philosophy
    Notes: Abstract In this paper the authors argue that ethical considerations are relevant for evaluating animal production systems and that in consequence agrologists should seriously consider the arguments of animal welfare supporters. Furthermore, the authors point out the ethical basis for some (though not all) of the conclusions proposed by supporters of animal welfare. In consequence it is necessary to determine the nature of animal welfare and methods of evaluating the welfare of animals and to recognize when production systems fail to satisfy the needs of animals.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF01826794
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