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Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell by Dennis Bray | Paperback | 2011
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- Condition
- Topic
- Biochemistry (Books), Computer Hardware (Books), Biological
- Narrtive Type
- Non Fiction/Fiction
- Product Group
- Book
- Title
- Wetware: A Computer in Every Living Cell
- Age Level
- Adults
- Modified Item
- No
- Series
- Wetware
- Date Published
- 25 Feb 2011
- ISBN-10
- 0300167849
- EAN
- 9780300167849
- Brand
- Yale University Press Illustrated edition
- ISBN
- 9780300167849
- Genre
- Science
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Wetware: a Computer in Every Living Cell
- Item Height
- 235 mm
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Subject
- Medicine, Biology
- Item Weight
- 392 g
- Item Width
- 158 mm
- Number of Pages
- 280 Pages
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In the tradition of as Erwin Schroedinger's What Is Life? and Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, a distinguished cell biologist explains how living cells perform computations How does a single-cell creature, such as an amoeba, lead such a sophisticated life? How does it hunt living prey, respond to lights, sounds, and smells, and display complex sequences of movements without the benefit of a nervous system? This book offers a startling and original answer. In clear, jargon-free language, Dennis Bray taps the findings of the new discipline of systems biology to show that the internal chemistry of living cells is a form of computation. Cells are built out of molecular circuits that perform logical operations, as electronic devices do, but with unique properties. Bray argues that the computational juice of cells provides the basis of all the distinctive properties of living systems: it allows organisms to embody in their internal structure an image of the world, and this accounts for their adaptability, responsiveness, and intelligence. In Wetware, Bray offers imaginative, wide-ranging and perceptive critiques of robotics and complexity theory, as well as many entertaining and telling anecdotes. For the general reader, the practicing scientist, and all others with an interest in the nature of life, the book is an exciting portal to some of biology's latest discoveries and ideas.
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Yale University Press
ISBN-13
9780300167849
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Number of Pages
280 Pages
Publication Name
Wetware: a Computer in Every Living Cell
Language
English
Subject
Medicine, Biology
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
235 mm
Item Weight
392 g
Item Width
158 mm
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United States
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