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1 online resource (1024 pages) |
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Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Introduction to the Series; Foreword; Introduction; List of Contributors; APPROACHES TO UNIFICATION; 1 A Note on Evolution; 2 Is a Unified Theory of Information Feasible? A Trialogue; 3 Information: Resurrection of the Cartesian Physics; 4 Information Science as a Paradigmatic Instance of a Problem-Based Theory; 5 A Rudimentary Theory of Information: Consequences for Information Science and Information Systems |
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6 What Is a Possible Ontological and Epistemological Framework for a True Universal 'Information Science'? The Suggestion of a Cybersemiotics7 Towards a Unified Concept of Information: Presentation of a New Approach; CONCEPTS OF INFORMATION; 8 System as Information-Information as System; 9 Cartesian Cut, Heisenberg Cut, and the Concept of Complexity; 10 Information: Definition, Origin and Evolution; 11 A Unifying Typology of Information; 12 Dimensional Symmetry Breaking, Information and the Arrow of Time in Cantonan Space |
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13 Some Considerations About Interaction and Exchange of Information Between Open and Self-Organizing Systems14 Actio non est Reactio: An Extension of the Concept of Causality Towards Phenomena of Information; 15 On Limits: Towards a Prototheory of Inform(ul)ation; SELF-ORGANIZING SYSTEMS; 16 The Rise of Information in an Evolutionary Universe; 17 The Overall Pattern of the Evolution of Information in Dissipative, Material Systems; 18 Entropy, Information and Predictability of Evolutionary Systems; 19 Entropy and Information |
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20 Degeneracy of the Local Structure Renormalizing Infinite Time and Space21 Quantum Information in an Evolutionary Perspective; 22 Information and the Complementarity Game; 23 Structural and Functional Information-An Evolutionary Approach to Pragmatic Information; LIFE AND CONSCIOUSNESS; 24 Information-Neither Matter nor Mind: On the Essence and on the Evolutionary Stage Conception of Information; 25 Information Processing as an Intrinsic Property of Biological Systems: Origin and Dynamics of Information; 26 Cell Molecular Quantum Computer and Principles of New Science |
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27 The Natural History of Information Processors28 The Evolution of Consciousness as a Self-Organizing Information System in the Society of Other Such Systems; 29 The Topological Inventions of Life: From the Specialization of Multicellular Colonies to the Functioning of the Vertebrate Brain; 30 The Feigenbaum Scenario in a Unified Science of Life and Mind; 31 The Demotion of Alpha-Homo sapiens Consciousness, Punctuated Equilibrium, and the Laws of the Game; SOCIETY AND TECHNOLOGY |
| Summary |
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company |
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32 Organisms, Machines, and Societies: From the Vertical Structure of Adaptability to the Management of Information |
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Information science -- Philosophy -- Congresses
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Information science -- Philosophy
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Information theory -- Philosophy -- Congresses
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Information theory -- Philosophy
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Library & Information Science -- General.
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Information science -- Philosophy
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Information theory -- Philosophy
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781134574797 |
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1134574797 |
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