On bioinformatics and cognitive informatics: Emerging pattern, dissipative structure, and evolving cognition

Bioinformatics is the comprehensive applications of mathematics, science, and a core set of problem-solving methods to the understanding of living systems. It will have profound impacts on all fields of biological and medical sciences. Cognitive informatics studies cognition and information sciences that investigates the processes of the natural intelligence. As both fields continue their rapid development and progress, it is the central challenge to understand the biological basis of cognition, perception, learning, memory, thought, and mind. This paper briefly reviews the intersections and connections between these two emerging fields through a systems view of emerging pattern, dissipative structure, and evolving cognition of living systems. It is hoped that this brief review draws further exploration of our understanding of biological nature of process of mind-cognition.