The Quest for a Unified Theory of Information: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Foundations of Information ScienceWolfgang Hofkirchner Psychology Press, 1999 - 590 Seiten First published in 1999. Volume 13 in the 13-volume set titled World Futures General Evolution Studies with a common focus of the emerging field of general evolutionary theory. This volume will expand across disciplines where scholars from new fields will contribute books that propose general evolution theory in novel contexts. The essays are structured with five topics: Approaches to Unification; Concepts of Information; Self-Organizing Systems; Life and Consciousness; Society and Technology. |
Inhalt
A Note on Evolution | 1 |
Is a Unified Theory of Information Feasible? | 9 |
Resurrection of the Cartesian Physics | 31 |
Information Science as a Paradigmatic Instance | 45 |
What Is a Possible Ontological and Epistemological | 79 |
Cartesian Cut Heisenberg Cut and | 125 |
Definition Origin and Evolution | 149 |
A Unifying Typology of Information | 159 |
Quantum Information in an Evolutionary Perspective | 293 |
Information and the Complementarity Game | 305 |
Structural and Functional Information | 315 |
Information Processing as an Intrinsic Property | 351 |
Cell Molecular Quantum Computer | 363 |
The Natural History of Information Processors | 371 |
The Evolution of Consciousness as a SelfOrganizing | 387 |
The Feigenbaum Scenario in a Unified Science | 411 |
Dimensional Symmetry Breaking Information | 179 |
Some Considerations About Interaction | 189 |
An Extension of | 197 |
Towards a Prototheory of Informulation | 215 |
The Rise of Information in an Evolutionary Universe | 231 |
The Overall Pattern of the Evolution | 241 |
Entropy Information and Predictability | 251 |
Entropy and Information | 265 |
Degeneracy of the Local Structure Renormalizing | 277 |
Function Support as an Information Systems | 463 |
Interaction Information and Meaning | 477 |
The Structure of Communities | 489 |
The Role of Variety in the Evolution | 499 |
Knowledge in the Information Society | 513 |
Measuring the Complexity | 553 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
adaptability aspects Atmanspacher autopoiesis Banathy basic behavior biological BioSystems brain Brier Carnot's Cartesian physics causality cells chaos chaos theory classical cognitive cognitive science communication complex concept of information configurations Conrad consciousness construction cultural cybernetics defined dynamics effect elements emergence energy entropy environment evolution evolutionary existence formal foundations function Gelepithis genetic global brain globally synchronous human individual information processing information science information system information theory intelligence interaction internal Kampis knowledge Kornwachs language Leibniz logical material mathematical Matsuno matter meaning measure molecular nature negentropy Newtonian noosphere notion objects observer organization paradigm particles philosophy possible pragmatic information principle problem quantum mechanics question reality relation result role scientific second order cybernetics self-organization semantic semiotics sense Shannon signals social society Stonier structure symbols Teilhard de Chardin theoretical theory of information thermodynamics tion transformation trilemma understanding unified University Weizsäcker