Sources of Information in Biological Systems

Abstract

The problem of the creation of information in biological systems is presented from two different complementary approaches. The first, probabilistic, makes use of the Shannon information theory and its previous utilization by the author to express an order or complexity from noise principle as a basis for a formal theory of (self)-organization. The other, deterministic, is based on Network thermodynamics more suited than the classical methods of system dynamics to treat complex physico chemical systems where several energy domains are involved. From then on, the notions of evolving networks and stochastic networks are introduced.