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Information processes. I. Hierarchical information systems

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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 Each information system, inherently incomplete, saturates its external environment and is superseded by a new system more apt in the new external environment.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.

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  • Dennis Hollenberg, 1986. "Information processes. I. Hierarchical information systems," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 37(5), pages 300-306, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamest:v:37:y:1986:i:5:p:300-306
    DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(198609)37:53.0.CO;2-W
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