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Order, organization, and randomness: on the mathematical formulation of life.

Life increasingly is understood in terms of information. I consider two attempts to formulate life in terms of mathematical information theory. G. J. Chaitin's proposes to define life in terms of the relation between organization and algorithmic compressibility in biological information. More recent...

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Published in:Synthese Vol. 204; no. 6; pp. 1 - 18
Main Author: Cosgrove, Joseph K.
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Dec2024
Subjects:
Information measurement
Algorithmic randomness
Information theory
Compressibility
Organization
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