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- 類型：已發表論文
- 日期：2011
摘要
Biologists rely heavily on the 語言 of 資訊, coding, and 傳播 that is commonplace in the field of 資訊 theory developed by Claude Shannon, but there is open debate about whether such 語言 is anything more than facile metaphor. Philosophers of biology have argued that when biologists talk about 資訊 in genes and in 演化, they are not talking about the sort of 資訊 that Shannon's theory addresses. First, philosophers have suggested that Shannon's theory is only useful for developing a shallow notion of correlation, the so-called "causal sense" of 資訊. Second, they typically argue that in 遺傳s and 演化ary biology, 資訊 語言 is used in a "semantic sense," whereas semantics are deliberately omitted from Shannon's theory. Neither critique is well-founded. Here we propose an alternative to the causal and semantic senses
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