The Fundamental Problem of the Science of Information

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dc.contributor.authorCárdenas-García, Jaime F.
dc.contributor.authorIreland, Timothy
dc.date.accessioned2019-03-20T15:04:24Z
dc.date.available2019-03-20T15:04:24Z
dc.date.issued2019-02-28
dc.description.abstractThe concept of information has been extensively studied and written about, yet no consensus on a unified definition of information has to date been reached. This paper seeks to establish the basis for a unified definition of information. We claim a biosemiotics perspective, based on Gregory Bateson’s definition of information, provides a footing on which to build because the frame this provides has applicability to both the sciences and humanities. A key issue in reaching a unified definition of information is the fundamental problem of identifying how a human organism, in a self-referential process, develops from a state in which its knowledge of the human-organism-in-its environment is almost non-existent to a state in which the human organism not only recognizes the existence of the environment but also sees itself as part of the human-organism-in-its-environment system. This allows a human organism not only to self-referentially engage with the environment and navigate through it, but also to transform it in its own image and likeness. In other words, the Fundamental Problem of the Science of Information concerns the phylogenetic development process, as well as the ontogenetic development process of Homo sapiens sapiens from a single cell to our current multicellular selves, all in a changing long-term and short-term environment, respectively.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12304-019-09350-2en_US
dc.format.extent32 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m23nyg-8mmt
dc.identifier.citationCárdenas-García, J.F. & Ireland, T. Biosemiotics (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-019-09350-2en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s12304-019-09350-2
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/13081
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherSpringer Nature Switzerland AGen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
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dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Faculty Collection
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dc.rightsThis is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Biosemiotics. The final authenticated version is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12304-019-09350-2
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dc.subjectscience of informationen_US
dc.subjecthuman-organism-in-its-environmenten_US
dc.subjectGregory Batesonen_US
dc.subjectdistributed cognitionen_US
dc.subjectecologyen_US
dc.subjectcommunicationen_US
dc.subjectShannon informationen_US
dc.subjectdistilled informationen_US
dc.subjectBateson informationen_US
dc.titleThe Fundamental Problem of the Science of Informationen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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