On the Computer-Science Category of Analogicity and the Possibility of its Application in Molecular Biology

• Authors: Paweł Stacewicz , Radosław Siedliński

Title variants

PL

O informatycznej kategorii analogowości i jej stosowalności w biologii molekularnej

EN

On the Computer-Science Category of Analogicity and the Possibility of its Application in Molecular Biology

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

The main aim of this paper is to justify the thesis that in molecular biology - in the scope of phenomena fundamental for the functioning of the cell - a significant role is played by analog (nondiscrete) information, which can be described in computational terms. It is a methodological thesis, indicating a certain direction of advancing new biological hypotheses. This aim is realized in two stages. In sections 1 and 2 we discuss the computer-science concept of analogicity, generally describing different concepts of analog-continuous and analog-empirical computations, as well as discussing the relationship between analogicity and digitality. In sections 3 and 4 we analyze some components of the process of protein formation, emphasizing that an adequate description of this process requires taking into account information of an analog nature, which, with a certain research attitude, can be described, but also used, computationally.

• Publisher: University of Warsaw, Institute of Philosophy
• Journal: Filozofia Nauki
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 47-71

Dates

published

2020-10-31

Contributors

author

Paweł Stacewicz

author

Radosław Siedliński

Identifiers

DOI

10.14394/filnau.2020.0015