Hierarchy and the Nature of Information

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Willy Ranson¹  Ron Cottam²  Roger Vounckx² 

[1] Interuniversity Micro Electronics Center (IMEC) vzw, Kapeldreef 75, Leuven B-8001, Belgium;The Living Systems Project, Department of Electronics and Informatics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Pleinlaan 2, Brussels B-1050, Belgium;

关键词: hierarchy;    hyperscale;    metascale;    Ivan Havel;    Charles Peirce;    information;   

DOI  :  10.3390/info7010001

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

We address the nature of information from a systemic structural point of view. Starting from the Natural hierarchy of living systems, we elucidate its decomposition into two partial hierarchies associated with its extant levels and inter-level regions, respectively. External observation of a hierarchical system involves the generation of approximate hyperscalar representations of these two partials, which then reintegrate to give a singular metascalar result. We relate Havel’s categories of reality and Peirce’s categories of experience to this result, and indicate that the ultimate result of the reintegration of hyperscalar data and context is a sign which is information.

【 授权许可】

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