Phenomenology of Information
Information is not a fundamental quantity of the Universe. However, in denying the fundamental nature of information, we assert its importance for living beings in their environment. Living beings use their sensory organs to discover the non-living and those living in their environment. Through thei...
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| author | Jaime F. Cárdenas-García |
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| description | Information is not a fundamental quantity of the Universe. However, in denying the fundamental nature of information, we assert its importance for living beings in their environment. Living beings use their sensory organs to discover the non-living and those living in their environment. Through their sensory organs, they discover the bountifulness of matter and/or energy as expressions of their environmental spatial/temporal motion/change, as information or <i>differences which make a difference</i>. This paper begins the discovery of a phenomenology of information, or the fundamental study of information as an expression of how ‘we experience things; thus, the meanings things have in our experience.’ This brings to the forefront the process of info-autopoiesis, or the self-referenced, recursive process of information self-production that engages all living beings in their efforts to satisfy their physiological and social needs. Elucidating how living beings interact with their environment and how these interactions are constitutive of information generation, information exchange, information relations and life. Information cannot be the primary element that allows living beings their unique existence. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f399366088a6427e895ab6055854ecae2023-11-23T18:33:04ZengMDPI AGProceedings2504-39002021-09-018114210.3390/proceedings2022081042Phenomenology of InformationJaime F. Cárdenas-García0Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland–Baltimore, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USAInformation is not a fundamental quantity of the Universe. However, in denying the fundamental nature of information, we assert its importance for living beings in their environment. Living beings use their sensory organs to discover the non-living and those living in their environment. Through their sensory organs, they discover the bountifulness of matter and/or energy as expressions of their environmental spatial/temporal motion/change, as information or <i>differences which make a difference</i>. This paper begins the discovery of a phenomenology of information, or the fundamental study of information as an expression of how ‘we experience things; thus, the meanings things have in our experience.’ This brings to the forefront the process of info-autopoiesis, or the self-referenced, recursive process of information self-production that engages all living beings in their efforts to satisfy their physiological and social needs. Elucidating how living beings interact with their environment and how these interactions are constitutive of information generation, information exchange, information relations and life. Information cannot be the primary element that allows living beings their unique existence.https://www.mdpi.com/2504-3900/81/1/42informationphenomenologyGregory Batesoninfo-autopoiesisClaude E. Shannonsyntactic |
| spellingShingle | Jaime F. Cárdenas-García Phenomenology of Information Proceedings information phenomenology Gregory Bateson info-autopoiesis Claude E. Shannon syntactic |
| title | Phenomenology of Information |
| title_full | Phenomenology of Information |
| title_fullStr | Phenomenology of Information |
| title_full_unstemmed | Phenomenology of Information |
| title_short | Phenomenology of Information |
| title_sort | phenomenology of information |
| topic | information phenomenology Gregory Bateson info-autopoiesis Claude E. Shannon syntactic |
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