Self-Modifying Systems in Biology and Cognitive Science
Kampis, G. (Department of Behaviour Genetics, L. Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary)
The theme of this book is the self-generation of information by the self-modification of systems. The author explains why biological and cognitive processes exhibit identity changes in the mathematical and logical sense. This concept is the basis of a new organizational principle which utilizes shifts of the internal semantic relations in systems. There are mathematical discussions of various classes of systems (Turing machines, input-output s...