Evolution of Information Processing Systems | An Interdisciplinary Approach for a New Understanding of Nature and Society | ISBN 9783540550235

Evolution of Information Processing Systems

An Interdisciplinary Approach for a New Understanding of Nature and Society

herausgegeben von Klaus Haefner
Buchcover Evolution of Information Processing Systems  | EAN 9783540550235 | ISBN 3-540-55023-2 | ISBN 978-3-540-55023-5

Evolution of Information Processing Systems

An Interdisciplinary Approach for a New Understanding of Nature and Society

herausgegeben von Klaus Haefner
An interdisciplinary team of scientists is presenting a new
paradigm: all   existing structures on earth are the
consequence of information processing. Since these
structures have been evolved over the last five                        billion
years, information processing and its systems have an
evolution. This is under consideration in the book. Starting
with a basic paper which   summarizes the essential hypotheses
about the evolution of informaion         processing systems,
sixteen international scientists have tried to verify   or
falsify these hypothesises. This has been done at the
physical, the   chemical, the genetic, the neural, the social,
the societal and the            socio-technical level. Thus, the reader
gets an insight into the recent      status of research on the
evolution of information processing systems. The   papers are
the result of an interdisciplinary project in                              which
scientists of the classical disciplines have been invited                  to
collaborate. Their inputs have been intensively discussed in
a         workshop. The book is the output of the workshop. The
first goal of the bookis to give the reader an insight into
basic principles about the evolution   of information
processing systems. This, however, leads directly to a         very
old and essential question: who is controlling the world,
„matter“ or an „immaterial intelligence“? Several authors of
the papers are arguing   that there is a basic concept of
information processing in nature. This is   the crucial
process, which, however, needs a material basis. The                  reader
has a chance to understand this paradigm as an approach
which is valid for all levels of inorganic, organic and
societal structures. This      provocative concept is open to
debate.