an Interdisciplinary Approach for a New Understanding of Nature and Society
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Klaus Haefner.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Berlin, Heidelberg
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1992
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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(XII, 357 pages 46 illustrations)
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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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.