What is information?: Why is it relativistic and what is its relationship to materiality, meaning and organization

Information (Switzerland)

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 68-91

  Logan, Robert K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b OCAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biology; Information; Language; Meaning; Organization; Relativity; Shannon

Indexed keywords

HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN CULTURES; INFORMATION; LANGUAGE; MEANING; RELATIONSHIP OF INFORMATION; SHANNON; SHANNON INFORMATION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

BIOLOGY; INFORMATION THEORY; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

RELATIVITY;

EID: 84860335524     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20782489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/info3010068     Document Type: Review

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