Complexity Reference: compref253 (BibTex)

Authors: Pattee,H

Year: 1995

Title: Evolving self-reference: matter, symbols and semantic closure

Journal: Communication and Cognition - Artificial Intelligence, 12, 9-27

Comments: Argues that physical reductionism is insufficient to explain function and significane of symbols, and that satisfactory models of some systems (espec. biological ones) will require both symbolic and material sides, and their inter-realtion.

Keywords: EVOLUTION, COMPUTATIONAL, PHILOSOPHY, EMERGENCE, PARADIGM, MODELS, BIOLOGY,

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