LIVING BEINGS AS INFORMED SYSTEMS: TOWARDS A PHYSICAL THEORY OF INFORMATION

Living beings as informed systems: towards a physical theory of information

I propose here a new concept of information based on two relevant aspects of its expression. The first related to the undeniable fact that the expression of information modifies the physical state of its receiver. The second to the arbitrariness of such physical changes. In fact, these changes are not deducible from physical laws but from a code established arbitrarily. Thus, physical informati...

graphy theory as models of physical systems

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Sustaining Information Systems as a Discipline: Towards an Evolving Theory of Information Systems Discipline

When designing information systems as complex systems through Information Systems (IS) discipline, researchers and practitioners not only apply models, methods and theories of management and control – they also use the same from engineering, linguistics, cognitive science, environmental science, biology, social science, artificial intelligence, systems thinking and cybernetics and etc. This div...

Living as Languaging: Distributed Knowledge in Living Beings

We trace life at different levels of organization and/or description to the cohabitation of individuals within and between historically established lineages. Ways of such cohabitation depend on experience of particular guilds or aggregates; they cannot be easily foretold from any basic level of description, they are distributed across all levels, and across all members of the community. Such ph...

Characteristics of Living Beings