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  1. Cognitive biology: dealing with information from bacteria to minds.Gennaro Auletta - 2011 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    Providing a new conceptual scaffold for further research in biology and cognition, this book introduces the new field of cognitive biology, a systems biology approach showing that further progress in this field will depend on a deep recognition of developmental processes, as well as on the consideration of the developed organism as an agent able to modify and control its surrounding environment. The role of cognition, the means through which the organism is able to cope with its environment, cannot be (...)
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    From Peirce’s Semiotics to Information-Sign-Symbol.Gennaro Auletta - 2016 - Biosemiotics 9 (3):451-466.
    Peirce is the father of semiotics. However, his theory was developed long before the developments in information theory. The codification procedures studied by the latter turn out to be crucial also for biology. At the root of both information and semiosis there are equivalence classes. In the case of biological systems, we speak of functional equivalence classes. Equivalence classes represent the grid that organism impose on biochemical processes and signals of the external or internal environment. The whole feedback circuit that (...)
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    Quantum Information as a General Paradigm.Gennaro Auletta - 2005 - Foundations of Physics 35 (5):787-815.
    Quantum–mechanical systems may be understood in terms of information. When they interact, they modify the information they carry or represent in two, and only two, ways: by selecting a part of the initial amount of (potential) information and by sharing information with other systems. As a consequence, quantum systems are informationally shielded. These features are shown to be general features of nature. In particular, it is shown that matter arises from quantum–mechanical processes through the constitution of larger ensembles that share (...)
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    The Quantum Mechanics Conundrum: Interpretation and Foundations.Gennaro Auletta - 2019 - Springer Verlag.
    This comprehensive volume gives a balanced and systematic treatment of both the interpretation and the mathematical-conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics. It is written in a pedagogical style and addresses many thorny problems of fundamental physics. The first aspect concerns Interpretation. The author raises the central problems: formalism, measurement, non-locality, and causality. The main positions on these subjects are presented and critically analysed. The aim is to show that the main schools can converge on a core interpretation. The second aspect concerns (...)
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    Semiotic Tools For Multilevel Cell Communication.Franco Giorgi & Gennaro Auletta - 2016 - Biosemiotics 9 (3):365-382.
    Cell communication plays a key role in multicellular organisms. In developing embryos as in adult organisms, cells communicate by coordinating their differentiation through the establishment and/or renewal of a variety of cell communication channels. Under both these conditions, cells interact by either receptor signalling, surface recognition of specific cell adhesion molecules or transfer of cytoplasmic components through junctional coupling. In recent years, it has become apparent that cells may also communicate through the extracellular release of microvesicles. They may originate as (...)
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    Emergence: selection, allowed operations, and conserved quantities.Gennaro Auletta - 2015 - South African Journal of Philosophy 34 (1):93-105.
    We treat emergence via reference to four ideas: (1) the different levels of emergence are characterised by distinct conservation laws, (2) the emergence process starts from some instability, (3) the driving force of emergence is given by selection processes allowing canalisation of specific (emerging) paths, and (4) new forms of stability are determined by new kinds of operations. At a quantum-mechanical level entropy is conserved in an isolated system or at global level and the only allowed operations are local shifts (...)
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    Causation Upside Down?Gennaro Auletta - 2012 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 68 (1-2):9-32.
    Resumo Este artigo centra-se na relevância metodológica da causalidade de tipo top-down. É fornecida uma análise do alcance e dos limites da metodologia reducionista tradicional. São distinguidos cinco tipos de concepções reducionistas: um requisito metodológico geral, o conselho pragmático de se seguir metodologias bem estabelecidas, um reducionismo inter-teórico, uma forma intra-teórica e, finalmente, um reducionismo ontológico. Subsequentemente, salienta-se a existência de domínios onde uma abordagem diferente, mas complementar, centrada em explicações etiológicas de tipo top-down, pode ser útil para melhorar o (...)
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  8. Oltre la fisica normale. Interpretazioni alternative e teorie non standard nella fisica moderna.Isabella Tassani, Gino Tarozzi, Alessandro Afriat, Gennaro Auletta, Stefano Bordoni, Marco Buzzoni, Claudio Calosi, Vincenzo Fano, Alberto Cappi, Giovanni Macchia, Fabio Minazzi & Arcangelo Rossi (eds.) - 2013 - ISONOMIA - Epistemologica.
    Nella sua straordinaria opera scientifica, Franco Selleri si è sempre opposto alla rinuncia alla comprensione della struttura della realtà e della natura degli oggetti fisici, che egli considera come l’elemento caratterizzante delle principali teorie della fisica del Novecento e che è stata stigmatizzata da Karl Popper come tesi della “fine della strada in fisica”. Sin dalla fine degli anni ’60, egli ha sviluppato quella riflessione critica nei confronti delle teorie fondamentali della fisica moderna, in particolar modo della teoria delle particelle (...)
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    What about the three forms of inference?Gennaro Auletta - 2009 - Acta Philosophica 18 (1).
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    Networks and Causation Top-Down.Gennaro Auletta - 2016 - Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 72 (1):171-180.
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    Quantum Information and Inferential Reasoning.Gennaro Auletta - 2005 - Foundations of Physics 35 (1):155-156.
    Information may be extracted from a quantum–mechanical system only by means of inference. For this reason, the observer, although not required as such for obtaining an eigenstate of the measured observable on a given system, is necessary for obtaining information.
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    Chance and Events: The Way in Which Nature Surprises Us.Gennaro Auletta & Lluc Torcal - 2014 - Biosemiotics 7 (3):335-350.
    Starting with the example of irreducible quantum events, it is shown that other kinds of events also have an element of randomness. The hallmark of “genuine” events is their irreducibility to some previous conditions. A connection between this concept and the traditional notion of contingency is explored. This concept is further brought in connection with Peirce’s Firstness. Such a notion raises the problem of how to understand causation. It seems that causes deal with individual happenings. In fact, laws are only (...)
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    On the Physical Reality of Quantum Waves.Gennaro Auletta & Gino Tarozzi - 2004 - Foundations of Physics 34 (11):1675-1694.
    The main interpretations of the quantum-mechanical wave function are presented emphasizing how they can be divided into two ensembles: The ones that deny and the other ones that attribute a form of reality to quantum waves. It is also shown why these waves cannot be classical and must be submitted to the restriction of the complementarity principle. Applying the concept of smooth complementarity, it is shown that there can be no reason to attribute reality only to the events and not (...)
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    A Critical Assessment of Transhumanism.Gennaro Auletta, Ivan Colagè & Paolo D'Ambrosio - 2013 - Acta Philosophica 22 (2):327-348.
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    (1 other version)Aristotle's Syllogistics revisited.Gennaro Auletta - 2013 - Epistemologia 36 (2):233-261.
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    Critical Examination of Peirce’s Theory of Categories.Gennaro Auletta - 2016 - SCIO Revista de Filosofía 12:23-49.
    Peirce’s theory of categorization is reconstructed and shown that the canonical form of the categories proposed by him are Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness. The related categories of Tychism, Synechism and Agapism are also discussed and shown several problems. In particular, I discuss about the sense in which we can speak of ultimate and basic categories, the different forms of relations, the different kinds of causes, the principle of habit-forming, the possible evolution of laws, the role of representation in our dealing with (...)
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    Information, semiotics, and symbolic systems.Gennaro Auletta - 2007 - Semiotica 2007 (166):359-376.
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  18. Perché la scienza è importante per la filosofia?Gennaro Auletta - 2009 - Gregorianum 90 (2):335-354.
    When dealing with the issue of the relations among science, philosophy and theology, one finds several misunderstandings. One is that natural sciences essentially offend the value of the human person. Many think that the central place of empirical data in natural sciences is in disharmony with the universal tenets of both philosophy and theology. The idea that science and philosophy are necessarily in conflict is based on a misunderstanding of both science and philosophy. The actual current paradigm shifts in natural (...)
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    Semiosis, Logic, and Language.Gennaro Auletta - 2005 - Croatian Journal of Philosophy 5 (1):51-69.
    Three fundamental forms of semiotic process (reference, addressing, and intentionality) are presented and their relations to language explained. After that, the fundamental inference forms (formal deduction, induction, and abduction) are presented and their connections with semiosis shown. Finally, we show some important differences between semiosis and inference, and propose to see information processing as a dynamical attractor of inference.
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  20. Spinoza: una mistica al di là del discorso razionale.Gennaro Auletta - 1997 - In Elmar Salmann & Aniceto Molinaro (eds.), Filosofia e mistica: itinerari di un progetto di ricerca. Roma: Pontificio Ateneo S. Anselmo.
     
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    The Ontology Suggested by Quantum Mechanics.Gennaro Auletta - 2006 - In Paolo Valore (ed.), Topics on General and Formal Ontology. Polimetrica International Scientific Publisher. pp. 161.
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  22. List of Contents: Volume 17, Number 1, February 2004.P. Caban, M. Forys, J. Rembielinski, Lorentz-Covariant Canonical, Gennaro Auletta, Gino Tarozzi & Wavelike Correlations Versus Path - 2004 - Foundations of Physics 34 (4).
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