Towards a new theory of information
| Autor: | Tom Stonier |
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| Rok vydání: | 1991 |
| Předmět: |
Economics and Econometrics
Property (philosophy) Operations research Computer science Physical reality Energy (esotericism) 02 engineering and technology Management Monitoring Policy and Law Library and Information Sciences computer.software_genre Information science Management Information Systems Theory based 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Entropy (information theory) Human society Group (mathematics) Communication 05 social sciences Computer society Expert system Epistemology Engineering management 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing 0509 other social sciences 050904 information & library sciences computer Information Systems |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Information Science. 17:257-263 |
| ISSN: | 1741-6485 0165-5515 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/016555159101700501 |
| Popis: | Information science is badly in need of an informa tion theory. The paper discusses both the need, and the possi bility of developing such a theory based on the assumption that information is a basic property of the universe. That is, like matter and energy, information has physical reality. Any system which exhibns organisation contains information. Changes in entropy represent changes in the organisational states of systems and, as such, quantify changes in the informa tion content of such systems. Information, like energy, exists in many forms. These are interconvertible. Likewise, energy and information are readily mterconverted: A change of 1 J/°K equals apprommately 10 23 bits. The paper also considers re lated phenomena such as "meaning" and "mtelligence", and argues that the emergence of machine intelligence in the milieu of human society presages an evolutionary discontinuity. |
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