Information processes. I. Hierarchical information systems

Dennis Hollenberg

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1986, vol. 37, issue 5, 300-306

Abstract: A population‐dynamics model of a general information‐processing system is introduced. This system is functionally coupled to two environments, one internal and one external, which comprise the environage. Gödel's incompleteness theorem provides a basis for the hypothesis that a single phenomenon accounts for the increase of information with time in all natural information systems. Each information system, inherently incomplete, saturates its external environment and is superseded by a new system more apt in the new external environment. A functional hierarchy of such systems results. Because information is a model of the environage in which it was formed, information's “meaning” is intrinsic, but only in the context of that domain. © 1986 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Date: 1986
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