The Regeneration of Information: A Model-Theoretic Approach
Meir Buzaglo · 2017
Regeneration is an operation whereby an organism restores a segment that has been severed from one of its limbs.Analogs to this process can be found in non-biological contexts, such as restoration.When an area in a painting has faded or been damaged, experts apply a variety of techniques in their efforts to restore the original work.Image processing provides yet another context; faced with a photograph from which a portion is missing, we can use a number of methods for its restoration.Another example, very relevant to vision, can be found in the eye's "filling in", or completion, of missing visual information.In order to describe what takes place in regeneration, we use words such as "extrapolation" or "interpolation" to indicate what we mean.This does not yet approach formal analysis, however, nor any methodical investigation of the operation.