Quest For A Unified Theory

by Hofkirchner,Wolfgang

• ISBN13: 9789057005312
• ISBN10: 905700531X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Series	xi
Foreword	xiii
Introduction	xix
List of Contributors	xxxi
Approaches to Unification
A Note on Evolution	1	(8)
Ervin Laszlo
Is a Unified Theory of Information Feasible? A Trialogue	9	(22)
Rafael Capurro
Peter Fleissner
Wolfgang Hofkirchner
Information: Resurrection of the Cartesian Physics	31	(14)
Koichiro Matsuno
Information Science as a Paradigmatic Instance of a Problem-Based Theory	45	(22)
Antonino Drago
Emanuele Drago
A Rudimentary Theory of Information: Consequences for Information Science and Information Systems	67	(12)
Petros A. M. Gelephithis
What Is a Possible Ontological and Epistemological Framework for a True Universal Information Science'? The Suggestion of a Cybersemiotics	79	(22)
Sren Brier
Towards a Unified Concept of Information: Presentation of a New Approach	101	(12)
Federico Fluckiger
Concepts Of Information
System as Information---Information as System	113	(12)
Klaus Kornwachs
Cartesian Cut, Heisenberg Cut, and the Concept of Complexity	125	(24)
Harald Atmanspacher
Information: Definition, Origin and Evolution	149	(10)
Jiayin Min
A Unifying Typology of Information	159	(20)
Bela Antal Banathy
Dimensional Symmetry Breaking, Information and the Arrow of Time in Cantorian Space	179	(10)
Muhammad S. El Naschie
Some Considerations About Interaction and Exchange of Information Between Open and Self-Organizing Systems	189	(8)
Norbert Fenzl
Actio non est Reactio: An Extension of the Concept of Causality Towards Phenomena of Information	197	(18)
Peter Fleissner
Wolfgang Hofkirchner
On Limits: Towards a Prototheory of Inform(ul)ation	215	(16)
Josef Wallmannsberger
Self-Organizing Systems
The Rise of Information in an Evolutionary Universe	231	(10)
Eric J. Chaisson
The Overall Pattern of the Evolution of Information in Dissipative, Materi Systems	241	(10)
Stanley N. Salthe
Entropy, Information and Predictability of Evolutionary Systems	251	(14)
Werner Ebeling
Entropy and Information	265	(12)
Katalin Martinas
Degeneracy of the Local Structure Renormalizing Infinite Time and Space	277	(16)
Yukio-Pegio Gunji
Quantum Information in an Evolutionary Perspective	293	(12)
Gerhard Grossing
Information and the Complementarity Game	305	(10)
Karl Svozil
Structural and Functional Information---An Evolutionary Approach to Pragmatic Information	315	(16)
Frank Schweitzer
Life And Consciousness
Information---Neither Matter nor Mind: On the Essence and on the Evolutionary Stage Conception of Information	331	(20)
Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski
Information Processing as an Intrinsic Property of Biological Systems: Origin and Dynamics of Information	351	(12)
Abir U. Igamberdiev
Cell Molecular Quantum Computer and Principles of New Science	363	(8)
Efim A. Liberman
Svetlana V. Minina
The Natural History of Information Processors	371	(16)
Claudio Zamitti Mammana
The Evolution of Consciousness as a Self-Organizing Information System in the Society of Other Such Systems	387	(8)
Allan Combs
Sally Goerner
The Topological Inventions of Life: From the Specialization of Multicellular Colonies to the Functioning of the Vertebrate Brain	395	(16)
Pedro C. Marijuan
The Feigenbaum Scenario in a Unified Science of Life and Mind	411	(14)
Ernest Lawrence Rossi
The Demotion of Alpha-Homo sapiens: Consciousness, Punctuated Equilibrium, and the Laws of the Game	425	(18)
William S. Dockens III
Society And Technology
Organisms, Machines, and Societies: From the Vertical Structure of Adaptability to the Management of Information	443	(20)
Michael Conrad
Function Support as an Information Systems Development Paradigm	463	(14)
Roberto R. Kampfner
Interaction, Information and Meaning	477	(12)
Robert Artigiani
The Structure of ``Communities'' and Communications in the New Millennium	489	(10)
Susantha Goonatilake
The Role of Variety in the Evolution of Information Society	499	(14)
Gottfried Stockinger
Knowledge in the Information Society	513	(12)
Nina Degele
The Noosphere Vision of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Vladimir I. Vernadsky in the Perspective of Information and of Worldwide Communication	525	(28)
Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski
Peter Kruger
Webometry: Measuring the Complexity of the World Wide Web	553	(8)
Ralph H. Abraham
The Emerging Global Brain	561	(20)
Tom Stonier
Index of Names	581	(7)
Subject Index	588