Information compression in biological systems

DOI10.1007/BF00333063MaRDI QIDQ1821046zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors H. Haken

Publication date 1987

Published in Biological Cybernetics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00333063

zbMATH Keywords

coordinationinformation compressioninformation-changeorder parametersslaved subsystemsslaving principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

General biology and biomathematics (92B05) Communication, information (94A99)

Review text

The concept of coordination in biological systems can be given a rigorous mathematical basis by the concept of order parameters and the slaving principle. The author calculates the information of the total system in terms of order parameters and slaved subsystems. When qualitative changes of a system happen, the information-change is given by that of the order parameters alone and may amount to few bits only.

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