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Chapter 1 expounds the aim of the book: defining information as a scientific entity and using it for explaining life phenomena. The science of communication engineering, Shannon’s information theory, is available to this end but must be somewhat extended, especially as regards the identification of the specific properties which can be used for defining information as a scientific entity. As a mathematical discipline, information theory can hopefully provide biology with a yet lacking theoretical basis. Communication engineering is only concerned with literal communication so information theory excludes semantics. The relation of semantics with information must thus be explicated.

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Battail, G. (2014). Introduction. In: Information and Life. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7040-9_1

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