an Interdisciplinary Approach for a New Understanding of Nature and Society
edited by Klaus Haefner.
Berlin, Heidelberg
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
1992
(XII, 357 pages 46 illustrations)
I Basic Concept --;I.1 Evolution of Information Processing --;Basic Concept --;II Contributions to the Concept of Information --;II.1 Information: Course and Recourse --;II.2 Aspects of Information --;II.3 Mathematical Aspects of PANINFORMATICA --;II.4 Process, Information Theory and the Creation of Systems --;II.5 Mega-Evolution of Information Processing Systems --;III Information Processing Systems at the Physical Level --;III.1 From "Matter-Energy" to "Irreducible Information Processing" --;Arguments for a Paradigm Shift in Fundamental Physics --;III.2 Inorganic Matter as One of Four Levels of Natural Information Processing --;III.3 The Concept of Information Seen from the Point of View of Physics and Synergetics --;III.4 Dynamical Systems, Instability of Motion and Information Processing --;III.5 Pragmatic Information in Nonlinear Dynamo Theory for Solar Activity --;IV Information Processing in Biological Systems --;IV.1 Thermal Proteins in the First Life and the "Mind-Body" Problem --;IV.2 Remembering and Planning: A Neuronal Network Model for the Selection of Behaviour and its Development for Use in Human Language --;IV.3 Nature and Origin of Biological and Social Information --;V The Evolution of Information Processing Systems at the Social Level --;V.1 Unitary Trends in Sociocultural Evolution --;V.2 The Replicative Model of the Evolution of Business Organization --;VI The Evolution of Information Processing Systems at the Sociotechnical Level --;VI.1 Information Processing at the Sociotechnical Level --;VI.2 From Neural Information Processing to Knowledge Technology --;Epilogue and Bibliography --;Epilogue.
An interdisciplinary team of scientists is presenting a newparadigm: all existing structures on earth are theconsequence of information processing. Thefirst goal of the bookis to give the reader an insight intobasic principles about the evolution of informationprocessing systems.