Dear Malcolm, Thanks for the link to Brenner's Logic in Reality (LIR) theory of information which seems consistent with recent developments in brain sciences:
"Information is both a means to model the world and part of the world that is modeled, and LIR describes the dialectic relation between them." With all the best. Sung ____________________________________________________ Sungchul Ji, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy Rutgers University Piscataway, N.J. 08855 732-445-4701 www.conformon.net > http://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/5/1/134/ > Information 2014, 5(1), 134-170; doi:10.3390/info5010134 > *Information: A Personal Synthesis* > by Joseph Brenner > > This article is an attempt to capture, in a reasonable space, some of the > major developments and currents of thought in information theory and the > relations between them. I have particularly tried to include changes in > the views of key authors in the field. The domains addressed range from > mathematical-categorial, philosophical and computational approaches to > systems, causal-compositional, biological and religious approaches and > messaging theory. I have related key concepts in each domain to my > non-standard extension of logic to real processes that I call Logic in > Reality (LIR). The result is not another attempt at a General Theory of > Information such as that of Burgin, or a Unified Theory of Information > like that of Hofkirchner. It is not a compendium of papers presented at a > conference, more or less unified around a particular theme. It is rather a > highly personal, limited synthesis which nonetheless may facilitate > comparison of insights, including contradictory ones, from different lines > of inquiry. As such, it may be an example of the concept proposed by > Marijuan, still little developed, of the recombination of knowledge. Like > the best of the work to which it refers, the finality of this synthesis is > the possible contribution that an improved understanding of the nature and > dynamics of information may make to the ethical development of the > information society. >
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