An Evolutionary and Entropic Interpretation of Information

Abstract

Investigates the enigmatic phenomenon of information from the two major perspectives of modern cybernetics: the negentropic and the evolutionary. Discusses the meaning of this phenomenon, considering it, ultimately, as the means of combating entropy within cybernetic or control systems which create or receive, process, stock, and use information, eventually with the purpose of regulating their matter‐energy fluxes necessary for struggling against inner entropy. Discusses the sense of information as relating to thermodynamical entropy in a philosophical manner and not in some formal (mathematical) language.

Citation

Jdanko, A.V. (1994), "An Evolutionary and Entropic Interpretation of Information", Kybernetes, Vol. 23 No. 9, pp. 34-47. https://doi.org/10.1108/03684929410075002