8. Non-Living to Living and Neurons to Mind
1. Howard Hunt Pattee, “Physical and Functional Conditions for Symbols, Codes, and Languages,” Biosemiotics 1 (2008), 147–68.
2. Howard Hunt Pattee and Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi, Laws, Language and Life: Howard Pattee’s Classic Papers on the Physics of Symbols with Contemporary Commentary (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer, 2012), 7.
3. Ibid., 8.
4. Pattee, “Physical and Functional Conditions for Symbols, Codes, and Languages.”
5. Howard Hunt Pattee, “The Physical Basis of Coding and Reliability in Biological Evolution,” in Pattee and Rączaszek-Leonardi, Laws, Language and Life, 33–54; repr. from Towards a Theoretical Biology 1, Prolegomena, Proceedings of an International Union of Biological Sciences symposium, Bellagio, Italy August–September 1966, ed. C. H. Waddington (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1968), 67–93.
6. Pattee and Rączaszek-Leonardi, Laws, Language and Life, 10.
7. Howard Hunt Pattee, “Physical Problems of Decision-Making Constraints,” in Pattee and Rączaszek-Leonardi, Laws, Language and Life, 70; repr. from International Journal of Neuroscience 3 (1972), 99–106.
8. Pattee, “Physical Basis of Coding and Reliability.”
9. John von Neumann, Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1966); Erwin Schrödinger, What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell (1944; repr. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2012).
10. Steve Martin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_8amMzGAx4.
11. Howard Hunt Pattee, “The Complementarity Principle in Biological and Social Structures,” inPattee and Rączaszek-Leonardi, Laws, Language and Life, 143–54; repr. from Journal of Social Biology Structures 1 (1978), 191–200.
12. Howard Hunt Pattee, “Cell Psychology: An Evolutionary Approach to the Symbol-Matter Problem,” in Pattee and Rączaszek-Leonardi, Laws, Language and Life, 170; repr. from Cognition and Brain Theory 5 (1982), 325–41.
13. Marcello Barbieri, “Biosemiotics: A New Understanding of Life,” Naturwissenschaften 95 (2008), 579.
14. Ibid., 597.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid., 580.
17. Ibid., 596.
18. Noa Liscovitch-Brauer et al., “Trade-off between Transcriptome Plasticity and Genome Evolution in Cephalopods,” Cell 169 (2017), 191–202.
19. Christian B. Anfinsen, “Principles That Govern the Folding of Protein Chains,” Science 181 (1973), 223–30.
20. Von Neumann, Theory of Self-Reproducing Automata, 77.
21. Pattee and Rączaszek-Leonardi, Laws, Language and Life, 13.
22. Rudolf K. Allemann and Nigel S. Scrutton, eds., Quantum Tunneling in Enzyme Catalyzed Reactions (Cambridge, U.K.: Royal Society of Chemistry Publishing, 2009).
23. Indranil Chakrabarty and Prashant Prashant, “Non Existence of Quantum Mechanical Self Replicating Machine,” arXiv:quant-ph/0510221v6, 2007.
24. Niels Bohr, “The Quantum Postulate and the Recent Development of Atomic Theory,” Nature 121 (1928), 580.
25. Pattee, “The Complementarity Principle,” 144.
26. Ibid., 149.
27. Ibid., 153.
28. Feynman, Robb Memorial Lecture.
29. James, Principles of Psychology, in Hutchins, Adler, and Brockway, Great Books of the Western World, vol. 53, William James, 117.
30. Pattee and Rączaszek-Leonardi, Laws, Language and Life, 28.
31. Ibid., 11.
32. Feynman, Robb Memorial Lecture.