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Information studies and the quest for transdisciplinarity : unity in diversity / edited by: Mark Burgin (UCLA), Wolfgang Hofkirchner (Vienna University of Technology, Austria).
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- World Scientific series in information studies ; volume 9.
- World Scientific series in information studies ; volume 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information society.
- Information society--Social aspects.
- Technological innovations--Social aspects.
- Technological innovations.
- Physical Description:
- pages cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [Hackensack], New Jersey : World Scientific, 2016.
- Contents:
- Introduction: omnipresence of information as the incentive for transdisciplinarity / Mark Burgin and Wolfgang Hofkirchner
- Part I. Theory of information
- How to produce a transdisciplinary information concept for a universal theory of information / Søren Brier
- Inaccessible information and mathematical theory of oracles / Mark Burgin
- Emergence of symbolic information by the ritualisation transition / R. Feistel
- The law of "information conversion and intelligence creation" / Yixin Zhong
- Topoi of systems : on the onto-epistemic foundations of matter and information / Rainer E. Zimmermann
- Part II. Philosophy of information
- Transdisciplinarity seen through information, communication, computation, (inter- )action and cognition / Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic, Daniel Kade, Markus Wallmyr, Tobias Holstein and Alexander Almér
- A unified science-philosophy of information in the quest for transdisciplinarity / Wu Kun and Joseph E. Brenner
- Natural information and spiritual information as an outcome of the transdisciplinary methodology / Basarab Nicolescu
- A new perspective on the existence and non-existence / Wu Tianqi
- Part III. Applications of information
- Information and the evolution of human communication / Manuel Bohn
- Information processing and Fechner's problem as a choice of arithmetic / Marek Czachor and Centrum Leo Apostel
- A few questions related to information and symmetries in physics / György Darvas
- The "sociotype" approach to social structures and individual communication : an informational exploration of human sociality / R. del Moral, J. Navarro, and P.C. Marijuán
- Information outliers and their detection / A. Duraj and P.S. Szczepaniak
- A physicist's perspective on how one converts observation into information / Robert W. Johnson
- The concept of systemic-resonance bioinformatics. resonances and the quest for transdisciplinarity / Sergey V. Petoukhov and Elena S. Petukhova
- Information society and apartheid in the context of evolutionary economics : perspectives from information theory / Rodrick Wallace and Mindy Thompson Fullilove
- Artificial and natural genetic information processing / Guenther Witzany.
- Notes:
- Second volume of a two-volume edition based on the Summit of the International Society for Information Studies on "The Information Society at the Crossroads : Response and Responsibility of the Sciences of Information" held in Vienna in June 2015.
- ISBN:
- 9789813108998
- 9813108991
- OCLC:
- 972330739
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