Titlebook: LAWS, LANGUAGE and LIFE; Howard Pattee’s clas Howard Hunt Pattee,Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi Book 2012 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The

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Laws and Constraints, Symbols and Languagesany of the ideas in my chapter “The Problem of Biological Hierarchy” (Pattee 1970b), in the third volume of ., were further developed. I would like to add here a summary of my more recent thoughts on these fundamental problems as they have evolved since writing those papers.

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The Physical Basis and Origin of Hierarchical Controlept that is so general and so poorly defined, except that no matter how I have looked at the question of the origin of life, I have not been able to evade the problem of the origin of hierarchical control. Hierarchical organization is so universal in the biological world that we usually pass it off

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Discrete and Continuous Processes in Computers and Brainse brain’s operation as a model for his idealized computing machine (Turing 1936), McCulloch’s and Pitts’ use of ideal switching elements to model the brain (McCulloch and Pitts 1943), and von Neumann’s comparison of the logic and physics of both brains and computers (von Neumann 1958).

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The Complementarity Principle in Biological and Social Structures of description that is formally incompatible with and irreducible to the other, and where one mode of description alone does not provide comprehensive explanatory power. The classical physics paradigm, on which biological, social and psychological sciences are modeled, completely suppresses the obs

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Clues from Molecular Symbol Systemsfortuitous elements, or frozen accidents, as well as essential principles. In order to distinguish the accidents from the principles we must refer to some theory of living systems. Similarly, in order to distinguish which biological constraints on linguistic form are fortuitous and which are fundame

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Cell Psychology: An Evolutionary Approach to the Symbol-Matter Problemg format constrains the real-time behavior of a material organism. My purpose is not to model cognition or language at the brain level, which cells have achieved only after some three billion years of evolution. Rather, I use this primeval embodiment of a symbol-matter system as an exercise in menta

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Universal Principles of Measurement and Language Functions in Evolving Systemsnerally accepted as the minimum requirement for any form of scientific theory. The modern cultural development of these skills is usually credited to the Newtonian epoch, although traces go back at least 2,000 years to the Milesian philosophers. In any case, from the enormously broader evolutionary

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Evolving Self-reference: Matter, Symbols, and Semantic Closuree requires complementary descriptions of the material and symbolic aspects of events. The matter-symbol complementarity is explained in terms of the logic of self-replication, and physical distinction of laws and initial conditions. Physical laws and natural selection are complementary models of eve