Biological Codes and Topological Causation.
Various causal details of the genetic process of translation have been singled out to account for its privileged status as a 'code'. We explicate the biological uses of coding talk by characterizing a class of special causal processes in which topological properties are the causally relevant ones. T...
| Publicado en: | Philosophy of Science Vol. 75; no. 3; pp. 259 - 278 |
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