- Tytuł:
- From philosophy in science to information in nature: Michael Heller’s ideas
- Autorzy:
- Krzanowski, Roman
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/31804080.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2023
- Wydawca:
- Copernicus Center Press
- Tematy:
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natural information
physical information
information in nature
information in cosmology
Michał Heller
Mark Burgin - Opis:
- This paper discusses the concept of information formulated by Michael (Michał) Heller. Heller—a philosopher, theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and theologian—provided a complex image of information and its role in nature, which is rarely found in studies of information. Heller posited that the laws of nature may be interpreted as information, or as providing information, presenting this as a complementary view to scientific structuralism (not discussed in this paper). According to Heller, the informational content of a structure in nature is inversely proportional to that structure’s degree of freedom. The more constrained or complex a structure is, and the less likely it is to exist, the more information it contains. In Heller’s view, the concept of information in Shannon’s Theory of Communication (ToC) is inadequate for expressing the notion of information beyond a numerical measure of a signal structure. Information in Heller’s research closely aligns with the concepts of Jacquette’s and Perzanowski’s combinatorial ontology (concepts not discussed in this paper) and the general theory of information (GTI) of Mark Burgin, although Heller did not explicitly make these connections.
- Źródło:
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Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce; 2023, 75; 83-105
0867-8286
2451-0602 - Pojawia się w:
- Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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