Foundational Papers on the Relationship Between Living Systems and Information Processing by Nelson Alfonso Gómez-Cruz and Carlos Eduardo Maldonado

The Collection we would like to edit is centered around foundational papers on the relationship between living beings and information processing. The volume would have two parts, thus: firstly, a set of papers focused on the problem: how living beings process information. The assumption is that living beings are not any Turing Machine in any sense, and they process information non-algorithmically. The second part is focused on biological hypercomputation. There is not any volume in this direction, as far as we know it.

As such, the time lapse of this collection encompasses some time from the 1980s until today. Some of the authors that are to be included are: John Hopfield, Christopher Langton, Dennis Bray, Sydney Brenner, Paul Nurse, Grzegorz Rozenberg, John Mayfield, George Kampis, Gordana Dodic-Crnkovic, Melanie Mitchell, Iron Cohen, and Lila Kari, among others. 

We can safely assess that we will have the volume ready sometime around the third quarter of 2025.

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Both biology and computational science aim at one at the same thing, namely making clear that the living beings are not a Turing Machine in any sense. Living beings process information non-algorithmically. This Collection gathers the most relevant papers on the subject. We have gathered papers ranging from 1984 until now that encompass bacteria, viruses, plants, funghi, mainly. 

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