Structural and functional complexity: an informational approach
José Roberto Castilho Piqueira · 2002
This paper establishes some definitions of entropy and information in the context of biological complexity. It is a trial on unifying ideas from Shanon's information theory and thermodynamics, providing a coherent set of definitions, in order to help out in the understanding of biological complexity. The main contribution is a precise definition of complexity, distinguishing structural complexity from functional complexity.>