Palavras-chave
Información biológica
Teoría de la información
Especificidad causal
Intervencionismo
Biología molecular.
Teoría de la información
Especificidad causal
Intervencionismo
Biología molecular.
Como Citar
RUIZ, María Ferreira. Información biológica: ¿la teoría de la información ataca de nuevo?. Manuscrito: Revista Internacional de Filosofia, Campinas, SP, v. 42, n. 1, p. 169–209, 2019. Disponível em: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/manuscrito/article/view/8656461. Acesso em: 18 abr. 2024.
Resumo
La literatura filosófica ha ofrecido una serie de argumentos que buscan mostrar la inadecuación conceptual de la teoría de la información para capturar el modo como el concepto se usa en biología molecular. A partir de éstos, se llegó a cierto consenso de que si acaso hay alguna forma de explicar y defender el concepto de información en biología molecular, la estrategia debe ser otra, y el debate continuó principalmente persiguiendo
alternativas. Sin embargo, algunos aportes recientes parecen desafiar el consenso y revigorar la discusión en torno a la relevancia de la teoría de la información en este contexto. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar los argumentos que condujeron a dicho consenso y examinar en qué medida estas propuestas logran vindicar la apelación a la teoría de la
información. Argumentaré que incluso la propuesta más refinada en esta línea falla en vindicar la estrategia teórico-informacional y que, como consecuencia, el consenso todavía puede ser defendido.
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GRIFFITHS, P. Genetic information: a metaphor in search of a theory. Philosophy of Science, 68, 3, pp. 394-412, 2001.
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LOMBARDI, O. What is information? Foundations of Science, 9, pp. 105–134, 2004.
LOMBARDI, O.; HOLIK, F., y VANNI, L. What is shannon information? Synthese, 193(7): pp. 1983–2012, 2006.
MAYNARD SMITH, J. The concept of information in biology. Philosophy of Science. 67, pp. 177–194, 2000.
MAYNARD SMITH, J. Reply to Commentaries. Philosophy of Science 67(2): 214-218, 2000b.
PLANER, R. Replacement of the ‘Genetic Program’ program. Biology and Philosophy 29: 33-53, 2014.
PLANER, R. Are genetic representations read in development?. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 67: 997-1023, 2016.
POCHEVILLE, A., MONTÉVIL, M., STOTZ, K., y GRIFFITHS, P. Crick information: giving substance to biological information. (unpublished manuscript).
QUASTLER, H. The status of information theory in biology: a round-table discussion. En: Yockey, H. (ed.), Symposium on information theory in biology. New York: Pergamon Press, pp. 399-402, 1958.
SARKAR, S. Genes encode information for phenotypic traits. En: Hitchcock, C. (Ed.), Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., pp. 259-274, 2004.
SARKAR, S. Decoding “Coding”: Information and DNA. En: Molecular Models of Life. Philosophical Papers on Molecular Biology. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2005a.
SARKAR, S. Biological information: a sceptical look at some central dogmas of molecular Biology. En: Molecular Models of Life. Philosophical Papers on Molecular Biology. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2005b.
SARKAR, S. How genes encode information for phenotypic traits. En: Molecular Models of Life. Philosophical Papers on Molecular Biology. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2005c.
SARKAR, S. Genes encode information for phenotypic traits. En: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science, editado por Christopher Hitchcock, 259-274.Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2004.
SARKAR, S. How genes encode information for phenotypic traits. En: Molecular models of life. philosophical papers on molecular biology. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2005.
SHANNON, C. “The Mathematical Theory of Communication”. Bell System Technical Journal 27, pp. 379–423, 1948.
SHEA, N. Representation in the genome and in other inheritance systems. Biology and Philosophy, 22, pp. 313–331, 2007.
SHEA, N. Developmental systems theory formulated as a claim about inherited representations. Philosophy of Science, 78(1), pp. 60-82, 2011a.
SHEA, N. What’s transmitted? Inherited information. Biology and Philosophy, 26, 2, pp. 183-189, 2011b.
STEGMANN, U. Genetic information as instructional content. Philosophy of Science, 72, 3, pp. 425–443, 2005.
STEGMANN, U. Causal control and genetic causation. Noûs, doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0068.2012. 00867.x, 2012.
STEGMANN, U. On the transmission sense of information. Biology and Philosophy, 28, 1, pp. 141-144, 2013.
STERELNY, K. y GRIFFITHS, P. Sex and death. An introduction to philosophy of biology. Chicago: The University of Chicago Pres, 1999.
STOTZ, K., y GRIFFITHS, P. Biological information, causality and specificity – an intimate relationship. In: Sara Imari Walker, Paul Davies, and George Ellis (eds.). From matter to life: information and causality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 366-390, 2017.
ŠUSTAR, P. Crick's notion of genetic information and the ‘central dogma’ of molecular biology. The British Journal of Philosophy of Science 58(1): 13–24, 2007.
TIMPSON, C. The grammar of teleportation. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 57: 587-621, 2006.
TIMPSON, C. Quantum Information Theory and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
TIMPSON, C. Quantum Information Theory and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. PhD diss., University of Oxford (quant-ph/0412063), 2004.
WEBER, M. The central dogma as a thesis of causal specificity. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 28 (4): 595–609, 2006.
WOODWARD, J. Causation in biology: stability, specificity, and the choice of levels of explanation. Biology & Philosophy 25:287–318, 2010.
WOODWARD, J. Making things happen: a theory of causal explanation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
YOCKEY, H. Information theory and molecular biology. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press, 1992.
ALBERTS et al. Biología molecular de la célula (5ta. Edición). Barcelona: Omega Ediciones, 2010.
BEGON, M. et al., Ecology. From individuals to ecosystems (4ta.Edición). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006.
BERGSTROM, C. y ROSVALL, M. The transmission sense of information. Biology & Philosophy, 26, pp. 159-176, 2011a.
BERGSTROM, C. y ROSVALL, M. Response to commentaries on ‘The Transmission Sense of Information’. Biology & Philosophy, 26, 2, pp. 195-200, 2011b.
BOGEN, J. y MACHAMER, P. Mechanistic information and causal continuity. En: Causality in the Sciences, editado por Phyllis Illari, Federica Russo y Jon Williamson, 845-864. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
BRANSON, H. R. A definition of information from the thermodynamics of irreversible processes. En: Quastler, H. (ed.), Essays on the use of information theory in biology. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, pp. 25-40, 1953.
BROWN, H.I. Observation and Objectivity. New York/Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
CALCOTT, B. The creation and reuse of information in gene regulatory networks. Philosophy of Science 81(5): 789-890, 2014.
CALCOTT, B.; GRIFFITHS, P. y POCHEVILLE, A. (Forthcoming). Signals that make a difference. British Journal Philosophy for the Philosophy of Science: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axx022.
COVER, T. y THOMAS, J. Elements of information theory. New York: JohnWiley & Sons, 1991.
CRICK, F. On protein synthesis. Symposium of the Society of Experimental Biology, 12, pp. 138–163, 1958.
DOWNES, S. Biological information. In: Pfeiffer and S. Sarkar (Eds.) Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia. New York: Routledge, pp. 64–68, 2006.
EMMECHE, C. A semiotical reflection on biology, living signs and artificial life. Biology & Philosophy 6(3): 325-340, 1991.
EMMECHE, C. The sarkar challenge to biosemiotics: is there any information in a cell?. Semiotica 127 (1/4): 273-293, 1999.
FLORIDI, L. Semantic conceptions of information. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta (ed.), 2004. Disponível em: http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2014/entries/information-semantic/.
FOX KELLER, E. Making sense of life. Explaining biological development with models, metaphors, and machines. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2003.
GODFREY-SMITH, P. Genes do not encode information for phenotypic traits. En: Hitchcock (ed.), Contemporary debates in philosophy of science, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., pp. 259-274, 2004.
GODFREY-SMITH, P. Information in Biology. In: HULL, D., y RUSE, M. (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to the Philosophy of Biology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 103-119, 2008.
GODFREY-SMITH, P. y Sterelny, K. Biological information. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta (ed.) 2016. Disponível em: https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2016/entries/information-biological/.
GRIFFITHS, P. Genetic, epigenetic and exogenetic information in development and evolution. Interface Focus 5:1–8, 2017.
GRIFFITHS, P. Genetic information: a metaphor in search of a theory. Philosophy of Science, 68, 3, pp. 394-412, 2001.
GRIFFITHS, P.; POCHEVILLE, A.; CALCOTT, B.; STOTZ, K.; KIM, HYUNJU; y KNIGHT, R. Measuring causal specificity. Philosophy of Science, 82(4), 529–555, 2015.
GRIFFITHS, P. y STOTZ, K. Genetics and Philosophy: An Introduction. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
HALLYN, F. (ed.) Metaphor and analogy in the sciences. Netherlands: Springer, 2000.
HOFFMEYER, J. Biosemiotics: an examination into the signs of life and the life of signs. Scranton: University of Scranton Press, 2008.
JABLONKA, E. Information: its interpretation, its inheritance and its sharing. Philosophy of Science, 69, pp. 578-605, 2002.
KAY, L. Who wrote the book of life? A history of the genetic code. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2000.
KJOSAVIK, F. Genes, Structuring powers and the flow of information in living systems. Biology and Philosophy 29 (3): 379-394, 2014.
KOSSO, P. Observability and observation in physical science. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1989.
KUMAR, L. Information, meaning, and error in Biology. Biological Theory 9: 89-99, 2014.
LANDAUER, R. Information is physical. Physics Today, May, pp. 23–29, 1991.
LANDAUER, R. The physical nature of information. Phys. Lett. A, 217, pp. 188–193, 1996.
LEAN, O. Getting the most out of shannon information. Biology & Philosophy 29(3), pp. 395–413, 2014.
LEVY, A. Information in Biology: a fictionalist account. Noûs, 45(4): 640-657, 2011.
LINSCHITZ, H. The information content of a bacterial cell. En: Quastler, H. (ed.), Essays on the use of information theory in biology. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, pp. 251-262, 1953.
LOMBARDI, O. What is information? Foundations of Science, 9, pp. 105–134, 2004.
LOMBARDI, O.; HOLIK, F., y VANNI, L. What is shannon information? Synthese, 193(7): pp. 1983–2012, 2006.
MAYNARD SMITH, J. The concept of information in biology. Philosophy of Science. 67, pp. 177–194, 2000.
MAYNARD SMITH, J. Reply to Commentaries. Philosophy of Science 67(2): 214-218, 2000b.
PLANER, R. Replacement of the ‘Genetic Program’ program. Biology and Philosophy 29: 33-53, 2014.
PLANER, R. Are genetic representations read in development?. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 67: 997-1023, 2016.
POCHEVILLE, A., MONTÉVIL, M., STOTZ, K., y GRIFFITHS, P. Crick information: giving substance to biological information. (unpublished manuscript).
QUASTLER, H. The status of information theory in biology: a round-table discussion. En: Yockey, H. (ed.), Symposium on information theory in biology. New York: Pergamon Press, pp. 399-402, 1958.
SARKAR, S. Genes encode information for phenotypic traits. En: Hitchcock, C. (Ed.), Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., pp. 259-274, 2004.
SARKAR, S. Decoding “Coding”: Information and DNA. En: Molecular Models of Life. Philosophical Papers on Molecular Biology. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2005a.
SARKAR, S. Biological information: a sceptical look at some central dogmas of molecular Biology. En: Molecular Models of Life. Philosophical Papers on Molecular Biology. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2005b.
SARKAR, S. How genes encode information for phenotypic traits. En: Molecular Models of Life. Philosophical Papers on Molecular Biology. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2005c.
SARKAR, S. Genes encode information for phenotypic traits. En: Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Science, editado por Christopher Hitchcock, 259-274.Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2004.
SARKAR, S. How genes encode information for phenotypic traits. En: Molecular models of life. philosophical papers on molecular biology. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2005.
SHANNON, C. “The Mathematical Theory of Communication”. Bell System Technical Journal 27, pp. 379–423, 1948.
SHEA, N. Representation in the genome and in other inheritance systems. Biology and Philosophy, 22, pp. 313–331, 2007.
SHEA, N. Developmental systems theory formulated as a claim about inherited representations. Philosophy of Science, 78(1), pp. 60-82, 2011a.
SHEA, N. What’s transmitted? Inherited information. Biology and Philosophy, 26, 2, pp. 183-189, 2011b.
STEGMANN, U. Genetic information as instructional content. Philosophy of Science, 72, 3, pp. 425–443, 2005.
STEGMANN, U. Causal control and genetic causation. Noûs, doi: 10.1111/j.1468-0068.2012. 00867.x, 2012.
STEGMANN, U. On the transmission sense of information. Biology and Philosophy, 28, 1, pp. 141-144, 2013.
STERELNY, K. y GRIFFITHS, P. Sex and death. An introduction to philosophy of biology. Chicago: The University of Chicago Pres, 1999.
STOTZ, K., y GRIFFITHS, P. Biological information, causality and specificity – an intimate relationship. In: Sara Imari Walker, Paul Davies, and George Ellis (eds.). From matter to life: information and causality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 366-390, 2017.
ŠUSTAR, P. Crick's notion of genetic information and the ‘central dogma’ of molecular biology. The British Journal of Philosophy of Science 58(1): 13–24, 2007.
TIMPSON, C. The grammar of teleportation. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 57: 587-621, 2006.
TIMPSON, C. Quantum Information Theory and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013.
TIMPSON, C. Quantum Information Theory and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics. PhD diss., University of Oxford (quant-ph/0412063), 2004.
WEBER, M. The central dogma as a thesis of causal specificity. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 28 (4): 595–609, 2006.
WOODWARD, J. Causation in biology: stability, specificity, and the choice of levels of explanation. Biology & Philosophy 25:287–318, 2010.
WOODWARD, J. Making things happen: a theory of causal explanation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
YOCKEY, H. Information theory and molecular biology. Cambridge (UK): Cambridge University Press, 1992.
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