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Emergent Information: A Unified Theory Of Information Framework (Hardcover)
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Emergent Information: A Unified Theory Of Information Framework (Hardcover)
Series: World Scientific Series in Information Studies, 3
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At the dawn of the information age, a proper understanding of
information and how it relates to matter and energy is of utmost
importance for the survival of civilisation. Yet, attempts to
reconcile information concepts underlying science and technology
with those en vogue in social science, humanities, and arts are
rather rare. This book offers a new approach, departing from
fragmented information concepts.Many academics refrain from
undergoing unifications, as most undertakings are reductionistic.
This book contends that it is the noble task of an
as-yet-to-be-developed science of information to go one step in the
direction of a unified theory of information without falling back
into neither reduction nor anthropomorphisation.To be able to
succeed in an ambitious task like this, the book advocates the
application of complex systems theory and its philosophical
underpinnings. Information needs to be interpreted in terms of
self-organisation to do justice to the richness of its
manifestations. The way the book does so will provide the reader
with a deep insight into a basic feature of our world.The following
are discussed in the volume: A Science of Information; A New Way of
Thinking; Praxio-Onto-Epistemology; Evolutionary Systems Design;
Evolutionary Systems Ontology; Evolutionary Systems Methodology;
Capurro's Information Concept Trilemma; A Multi-Stage Model of
Evolutionary Types of Information: Pattern Formation, Code-Making,
and Constituting Sense; A Triple-C Model of Systemic Functions of
Information: Cognising, Communicating, and Co-Operating; Nine
Categories of Information Capabilities: Reflectivity (physical),
Psyche (biotic), Consciousness (human); Connectivity (physical),
Signalability (biotic), Languageability (human); Cohesiveness
(physical), Coherency (biotic), Communitarity (human); Nine
Categories of Information: Response (physical), Flexible Response
(biotic), Reflexion (human); Correspondences (physical), Signals
(biotic), Symbolic Acts (human); Assemblage (physical), Assignment
(biotic), Association (human); A Unified Theory of Information for,
about, and by means of the Information Society.
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