Grammatical Man

Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language, and Life
Author Jeremy Campbell
Subject Information Theory, Systems Theory, Cybernetics, Linguistics
Publisher Simon & Schuster
Publication date
1982
Pages 319
ISBN 0671440616

Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language, and Life is a 1982 book written by the Evening Standard's Washington correspondent, Jeremy Campbell. [1] The book touches on topics of probability, Information Theory, cybernetics, genetics and linguistics. The book frames and examines existence, from the Big Bang to DNA to human communication to artificial intelligence, in terms of information processes. The text consists of a foreword, twenty-one chapters, and an afterword. It is divided into four parts: Establishing the Theory of Information; Nature as an Information Process; Coding Language, Coding Life; How the Brain Puts It All Together.

Part 1: Establishing the Theory of Information

Part 2: Nature as an Information Process

Part 3: Coding Language, Coding Life

Part 4: How the Brain Puts It All Together

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