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Response to commentaries on “The Transmission Sense of Information”

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CTB was supported in part by NSF ATB-1038590.

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  1. Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195-1800, USA

    Carl T. Bergstrom

  2. Santa Fe Institute, 1399 Hyde Park Rd., Santa Fe, NM, 87501, USA

    Carl T. Bergstrom

  3. Integrated Science Lab, Department of Physics, Umeå University, 901 87, Umeå, Sweden

    Martin Rosvall

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Bergstrom, C.T., Rosvall, M. Response to commentaries on “The Transmission Sense of Information”. Biol Philos 26, 195–200 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10539-011-9257-3

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