Evolution of Information Processing Systems: An Interdisciplinary Approach for a New Understanding of Nature and Society

Front Matter....Pages I-X
Front Matter....Pages XI-XI
Evolution of Information Processing — Basic Concept....Pages 1-46
Front Matter....Pages 47-47
Information: Course and Recourse....Pages 49-62
Aspects of Information....Pages 63-71
Mathematical Aspects of PANINFORMATICA....Pages 72-82
Process, Information Theory and the Creation of Systems....Pages 83-102
Mega-Evolution of Information Processing Systems....Pages 103-111
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
From “Matter-Energy” to “Irreducible Information Processing”: Arguments for a Paradigm Shift in Fundamental Physics....Pages 115-135
Inorganic Matter As One of Four Levels of Natural Information Processing....Pages 136-152
The Concept of Information Seen from the Point of View of Physics and Synergetics....Pages 153-168
Dynamical Systems, Instability of Motion and Information Processing....Pages 169-184
Pragmatic Information in Nonlinear Dynamo Theory for Solar Activity....Pages 185-199
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Thermal Proteins in the First Life and in the “Mind-Body” Problem....Pages 203-228
Remembering and Planning: A Neuronal Network Model for the Selection of Behaviour and Its Development for Use in Human Language....Pages 229-256
Nature and Origin of Biological and Social Information....Pages 257-278
Front Matter....Pages 279-279
Unitary Trends in Sociocultural Evolution....Pages 281-287
The Replicative Model of the Evolution of Business Organization....Pages 288-303
Front Matter....Pages 305-305
Information Processing at the Sociotechnical Level....Pages 307-319
From Neural Information Processing to Knowledge Technology....Pages 320-340
Front Matter....Pages 341-341
Epilogue....Pages 343-346
Back Matter....Pages 347-357