Evolution of Information Processing Systems

An Interdisciplinary Approach for a New Understanding of Nature and Society
Herausgegeben:Haefner, Klaus

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An interdisciplinary team of scientists is presenting a newparadigm: all existing structures on earth are theconsequence of information processing. Since thesestructures have been evolved over the last five billionyears, information processing and its systems have anevolution.This is under consideration in the book. Startingwith a basic paper which summarizes the essential hypothesesabout the evolution of informaion processing systems,sixteen international scientists have tried to verify orfalsify these hypothesises. This has been done at thephysical, the chemical, the genetic, the neural, the social,the societal and the socio-technical level. Thus, the readergets an insight into the recent status of research on theevolution of information processing systems. The papers arethe result of an interdisciplinary project in whichscientists of the classical disciplines have been invited tocollaborate. Their inputs have been intensively discussed ina workshop. The book is the output of the workshop. Thefirst goal of the bookis to give the reader an insight intobasic principles about the evolution of informationprocessing systems. This, however, leads directly to a veryold and essential question: who is controlling the world,"matter" or an "immaterial intelligence"? Several authors ofthe papers are arguing that there is a basic concept ofinformation processing in nature. This is the crucialprocess, which, however, needs a material basis. The readerhas a chance to understand this paradigm as an approachwhich is valid for all levels of inorganic, organic andsocietal structures. This provocative concept is open todebate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-642-77213-9
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992
• Seitenzahl: 372
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9783642772139
• ISBN-10: 3642772137
• Artikelnr.: 36121720

Inhaltsangabe

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.