Twenty Questions about a Unified Theory of Information: A Short Exploration Into Information from a Complex Systems View

Hofkirchner, Wolfgang

ISBN 10: 0984216472 / ISBN 13: 9780984216475

Published by Isce Publishing, 2010

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Synopsis:

While a considerable number of scientists still today disbelieve in the feasibility of a single generic concept of information, there are several attempts to hypothesize or theorize information in a unifying manner carried out by a strong minority of scientists. However, the camp of the "unifiers" itself is heterogeneous. The 'Unified Theory of Information', as Wolfgang Hofkirchner came to term his own approach, links information to self-organization. It elaborates on arguments of dialectical philosophy in order to avoid both the pitfalls of reductionism and dualism and seeks to reconcile the 'hard' and 'soft' science perspectives of information. Among the scholars who influenced his sciences of complexity approach are- Edgar Morin, Ervin Laszlo, Werner Ebeling, Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski, Klaus Kornwachs, Klaus Haefner, Tom Stonier, John Collier, Alicia Juarrero, Edwina Taborsky, Søren Brier, Claus Emmeche, Robert Logan.

About the Author: Wolfgang Hofkirchner is president of the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science, academician at the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences, and associate professor at the Vienna University of Technology in Austria.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Twenty Questions about a Unified Theory of ...
Publisher: Isce Publishing
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good