Theoretical Information Studies: Information In The World

by Mark Burgin, Gordana Dodig-crnkovic

Overview

This is the first attempt to delineate the synthetic field of the theoretical study of information, treating information as the basic phenomenon on the fundamental level of the world, encompassing nature, technology, individuals and society. The exploration of information is done within Info-computational approaches, to natural and social phenomena such as Bioinformatics, Information Physics, Informational Chemistry, Computational Physics, Cognitive and Social sciences, with special emphasis on interdisciplinary, crossdisciplinary and transdisciplinary knowledge.The book presents results of collaboration across research fields within info-computational and info-structural frameworks, in attempt to better theoretically and conceptually capture the phenomenon of information and its dynamics (such as computation and communication), as they appear on different levels of organization, on different scales and in different contexts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789813277489
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	04/13/2020
Series:	World Scientific Series In Information Studies , #11
Pages:	536
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.13(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction (M Burgin and G Dodig-Crnkovic); Part 1 Foundations of Information: Why Entropy is not Enough? Good Emerges from the Relaxation between Order and Disorder (Wu Kun and Wang Jian); A Multiscale Taxonomy of Information in the World (Burgin Mark, Dodig-Crnkovic Gordana); A Model of Deceitful Information Communication: Some Views on Theory and Practice of Semantic Information (Li Bocong, Wang Nan); A Theory of Semantic Information (Zhong Yixin and Dodig-Crnkovic Gordana); Qualitative Ontology, Information and Forceful Properties (Lanfredini Roberta); Part 2 Information as a Natural Phenomenon: The No Information at a Distance Principle and Local Mathematics: Some Effects on Physics and Geometry (Benioff Paul); The Biosemiotic Emergence of Referential Information (Deacon Terrence W); On Models of the Self-Organization of Information Processing (Ebeling Werner and Feistel Rainer); An Evolutionary View on the Information Concept: Two Types of Information Acting Interdependently (Grathoff Annette); The Biology of Information (Logan Robert K); The Living Cell as an Informational Paradigm (Marijuan Pedro C, Navarro Jorge and del Moral Raquel); Towards the Design of Signaling Networks Devices (Riofrío Walter); Evolution of Genetic Information without Error-Replication (Witzany Guenther); Part 3 Cognition and Intelligence in Natural and Artificial Systems: Information Processing by Structural Machines (Burgin Mark); Consciousness and Information — Before or After the Event (Cottam Ron); Convergence of Natural and Artificial Intelligence (Mikkilineni Rao); Ecological Methodology and Mechanism Approach — A New perspective on Intelligence Science (Zhong Yixin); Part 4 Social, Cultural, Ethical and Legal Aspects of Information: The Differentia Specifica of Interhuman Communication: A Sociological Reflection on Information Theory (Leydesdorff Loet); A Model of Complexity for the Legal Domain (NJ de Vey Mestdagh Cornelis); Li Erqu's Theory on Epistemology and Gong Fu Ontology (Jun Liu); Reform and Innovation: the Social Sciences Research in Big Data Time (Ouyang Kang); Law as Information, and the Impact of Information Technologies (Pagallo Ugo); Information and Openness (Tomás Sigmund); Research on Ecological Democracy Based on Ecological Information (Youqiang Wang); A Comparative Analysis of Traditional Western and Chinese Music from the Perspective of Complex Information System Theory (Gengxian Cao, Donghe Li); Information in Creative Processes (Dahlstedt Palle); On Relations between Human and Big Data-Based Social Machines in the Information Ecology (Dazhou Wang); Research on the Modernity of Confucianism from the Perspective of Philosophy of Information (Jun Liu);