Information and Reflection

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 1. Cybernetics and Information.
• 1.1. On Cybernetics.
• 1.2. The General Debate about Cybernetics.
• 1.3. On the Question: What is Information?.
• 1.4. Two Philosophic Views on Information.
• 2. Marxism-Leninism and Cybernetics.
• 2.1. On the Relationship between Dialectical Materialism and the Sciences.
• 2.2. Rejection and Acceptance of Cybernetics.
• 2.3. On the Philosophic Problems of Cybernetics.
• I / Information.
• 3. Preliminaries.
• 4. Language and Information.
• 5. Information Theory.
• 6. The Interpretation of Information Measures; Isomorphy.
• 7. Signal Determination.
• II/The Dialectical-Materialist Doctrine of Reflection.
• 8. Sources and Foundations of the Doctrine of Reflection.
• 9. Reflection Theory.
• 10. Reflection as General Property of all Matter.
• III/Dialectical-Materialist Contributions to the ‘Information’ the me.
• 11. Survey.
• 12. Information as Connection.
• 13. Entropy and Structural Information.
• 14. Elaboration of the Doctrine of Reflection.
• 15. Information in a Dialectical-Materialist Theory of Signs.
• 16. Concluding Remarks.
• References.
• Index Of Names.