TY - BOOK AU - Neuman,Yair TI - Reviving the living: meaning making in living systems T2 - Studies in multidisciplinarity SN - 9780444530332 (hbk.) PY - 2008/// CY - Amsterdam PB - Elsevier KW - Life sciences KW - Philosophy KW - Meaning (Philosophy) N1 - Includes index; Includes bibliographical references; What is reductionism? -- Who is reading the book of life? -- Genetics : from grammar to meaning making -- A point for thought : why are organisms irreducible? -- A point for thought : does the genetic system include a meta-language? -- Immunology : from soldiers to housewives -- A point for thought : immune specificity and Brancusi's kiss -- A point for thought : reflections on the immune self -- Meaning making in language and biology -- A point for thought : meaning : bridging the gap between physics and semantics -- The rest is silence -- The polysemy of the sign : a quantum lesson -- Recursive-hierarchy : a lesson from the tardigrade -- Context and memory : a lesson from funes the memorious -- Transgradience : a lesson from Bakhtin -- The poetry of living ER -