7. The Living Computer

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Prologue: The Dawn of Man? 1
6. 1. Iteration and Sequence 3
7. 2. The Crisis in Biology 23
8. 3. The Origin of “Species” 42
9. 4. Chaos and Dimensionality 55
10. 5. Chaostability 72
11. 6. The Geometry of Life 97
12. 7. The Living Computer 124
13. 8. Morphology and Evolution 150
14. 9. Entropy, Information, and Randomness 172
15. 10. The Effectiveness of Mathematics 202
16. 11. Life and Conflict 221
17. 12. The World as Iteration and Recursion 236
18. Notes 271
19. Index 295