Chaotic dynamics in biological information processing: A heuristic outline

1987 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 1359-1388 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. S. Nicolis
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Chaotic Dynamics ◽  
Biological Information ◽  
Biological Information Processing

scholarly journals Plant behaviour in response to the environment: information processing in the solid state

2019 ◽  
Vol 374 (1774) ◽  
pp. 20180370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salva Duran-Nebreda ◽  
George W. Bassel
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
Computational Models ◽  
Biological Information ◽  
Biological Processes ◽  
Cognitive Architectures ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Processing And Storage ◽  
Biological Information Processing ◽  
And Storage ◽  
Plant Behaviour

Information processing and storage underpins many biological processes of vital importance to organism survival. Like animals, plants also acquire, store and process environmental information relevant to their fitness, and this is particularly evident in their decision-making. The control of plant organ growth and timing of their developmental transitions are carefully orchestrated by the collective action of many connected computing agents, the cells, in what could be addressed as distributed computation. Here, we discuss some examples of biological information processing in plants, with special interest in the connection to formal computational models drawn from theoretical frameworks. Research into biological processes with a computational perspective may yield new insights and provide a general framework for information processing across different substrates.This article is part of the theme issue ‘Liquid brains, solid brains: How distributed cognitive architectures process information’.

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