Information Processes

Cells and organisms are continuously confronted with an erratically changing muddle of signals. To survive in such environments it is necessary to identify essential signals to generate appropriate information for survival under consideration of internal requirements. Inherited from the evolution within a unicellular world are cellular information processes also common to multicellular organisms. For energetic and systemic reasons in all cells and organisms evolved—interdependent with morphological and eco-physiological properties—limited potentials for signal perception and information processing. These general rules are also valid for neuronal information systems, evolved as peculiarities in mobile animals for deterministic co-ordination of their locomotion within the dynamic framework of endogenous and external signals.