Referential:
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"Honey, what have you done with our cat?"
Ms. Schrodinger
This website is designed to explore several constructions surrounding the concept of referential information. The site shall begin with an observation from Bela A. Banathy.
Lindblom
Getting Started:
"... actually, in my view of the world information is constituted of three fundamental fragments: nonreferential information, referential information, and statereferential information; and the referential fragment is responsible for the ontology of the system ...." B
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International Systems Institute, Salinas, CA 93908, USA.
"It is argued that we can improve our understanding of living systems by focusing on their informational processes. Recent developments, primarily in evolutionary biology, cybernetics and systems theory, suggest that informational processes are of at least two, and probably three, different types; and that the interaction of these types can be seen as a basis for the self-construction of living systems.
Following the work of Csanyi and Kampis, a distinction is drawn between referential and nonreferential information.
This typology is further extended to include statereferential information.
The statereferential type serves to lend stability to informational arrangements (organization) that are viable so that they may be propagated in space and time."
PMID: 9648678 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?
"Also Kampis considers two aspects of information: In the sense of knowledge he names it as “ nonreferential information” and in the different (opposite) sense he defines “referential information” and connects it with actions that results into changes in (received) systems. Just this Kapis concepts of “infor-mation as action” corresponds to mentioned type “information from system”. To accept third concept (aspect) of information labelled by Banathy (1997) as “state referential...”
Antonín Rosický
As a sidenote, it is interesting that nonreferential information and referential information are not polar opposites but are, rather, equivalent.
That is to say NR=Rc2
It would be quite interesting, thereby, if the universe was composed of non-referential systems! It needs to be further researched if it is true the universe is around 3% matter and that only matter is referential. (That seems unlikely but may be true except for the statistical conjecture, Hawkings, that information leaks and may, thereby, be a transfer of information.)
Lindblom
What is Information?
1 : "the communication or reception of knowledge or intelligence
2 a (1) : knowledge obtained from investigation, study, or instruction (2) : INTELLIGENCE, NEWS
(3) : FACTS, DATA b : the attribute inherent in and communicated by one of two or more alternative sequences or arrangements of something (as nucleotides in DNA or binary digits in a computer program) that produce specific effects c (1) : a signal or character (as in a communication system or computer) representing data (2) : something (as a message, experimental data, or a picture) which justifies change in a construct (as a plan or theory) that represents physical or mental experience or another construct d : a quantitative measure of the content of information; specifically : a numerical quantity that measures the uncertainty in the outcome of an experiment to be performed"
What does it mean to Refer?
"Etymology: Middle English referren, from Anglo-French referer, referir, from Latin referre to bring back, report, refer, from re- + ferre to carry -- more at BEAR
transitive verb
1 a (1) : to think of, regard, or classify within a general category or group (2) : to explain in terms of a general cause b : to allot to a particular place, stage, or period c : to regard as coming from or located in a specific area
2 a : to send or direct for treatment, aid, information, or decision <refer a patient to a specialist> <refer a bill back to a committee> b : to direct for testimony or guaranty as to character or ability
intransitive verb
1 a : to have relation or connection : RELATE b : to direct attention usually by clear and specific mention <no one referred to yesterday's quarrel>
2 : to have recourse : glance briefly <referred frequently to his notes while speaking>"
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/refers
Csanyi and Kampis
autogenesis
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 901:35-41 (2000)
© 2000 New York Academy of Sciences
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Csanyi+and+Kampis%22
Links:
REFERENTIAL INFORMATION
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22referential+information%22&btnG=Search
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22referential+systems%22
TIME, TIMELESS LOGIC AND SELF-REFERENTIAL SYSTEMS*
http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1967.tb55000.x
Links:
- Principia Cybernetica Web
- International Society for the System Sciences
- Autopoiesis at the ACM website
- Systems theory
- Le Village Systémique
- Portland State University Systems Science Ph.D. Program
- The Swedish Morphological Society
- New England Complex Systems Institute
- UCLA Human Complex Systems Program
- Systems Department, Open University
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_theory
http://h2o.law.harvard.edu/ViewProject.do?projectID=541
http://h2o.law.harvard.edu/ViewProject.do?projectID=515
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=referential
Bela A. Banathy PhD
"E ... another take on being premature is to have just enough contact with selected (capable) people to give them a glimpse of the world as you see it, and watch to see if they pick up on it and then let them develop their own version ... then leave them alone to run with it..." B
"A system is an informational container in which life can organize itself"
"E... actually, in my view of the world information is constituted of three fundamental fragments: nonreferential information, referential information, and statereferential information; and the referential fragment is responsible for the ontology of the system ...." B
"So far all we have done was/is to waive our hands with great vigor, and claim that the wind generated is progress." B
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