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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

About Self-organization of Information and Synergetics

Authors : Werner Ebeling, Rainer Feistel

Published in: Complexity and Synergetics

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

The self-organization of information belongs to the basic topics of Haken’s synergetics. The basic statement of this paper is following Eigen and Haken-Krell that information is a product of evolution and: there is no information processing without life, and there is no life without information processing. The origin of information processing is based on the self-organization of life. In our view, information is not a physical quantity but its transfer is always related to transfer of a universal physical quantity, the entropy. Information cannot be reduced to physics alone, it is basically a non-physical term and bound to the evolution of life. Information-processing systems exist only in the context of life and its descendants: animal behaviour, human sociology, science, technology etc.

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Metadata
Title
About Self-organization of Information and Synergetics
Authors
Werner Ebeling
Rainer Feistel
Copyright Year
2018
Book
Complexity and Synergetics

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-64333-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-64334-2

Copyright Year: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64334-2_1