What's information, for an organism or intelligent machine? How can a machine or organism mean?

Information And Computation: Essays On Scientific And Philosophical Understanding Of Foundations Of Information And Computation

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 393-438

  Sloman, Aaron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

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