TY  - INPR
ID  - cogprints5689
UR  - http://cogprints.org/5689/
A1  - Gershenson, Dr Carlos
TI  - The World as Evolving Information
Y1  - 2007///
N2  - This paper discusses the benefits of describing the world as information, especially in the study of the evolution of life and cognition. Traditional studies encounter problems because it is difficult to describe life and cognition in terms of matter and energy, since their laws are valid only at the physical scale. However, if matter and energy, as well as life and cognition, are described in terms of information, evolution can be described consistently as information becoming more complex.

The paper presents five tentative laws of information, valid at multiple scales, which are generalizations of Darwinian, cybernetic, thermodynamic, and complexity principles. These are further used to discuss the notions of life and cognition and their evolution.

AV  - public
KW  - information
KW  -  evolution
KW  -  matter
KW  -  energy
KW  -  life
KW  -  cognition
ER  -

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