Special Issue "Information and Energy/Matter"
A special issue of Information (ISSN 2078-2489). This special issue belongs to the section "Information Theory and Methodology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2012) | Viewed by 84812
Special Issue Editor
2. School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Mälardalen University, 721 23 Västerås, Sweden
Interests: computing paradigms; computational mechanisms of cognition; philosophy of science; epistemology of science; computing and philosophy; ethics of computing; information ethics; roboethics and engineering ethics; sustainability ethics
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Dear Colleagues,
We stand on the edge of one more major leap in our understanding of the universe. One of many indications for the need of radical re-conceptualization is the fact that in our current understanding most of the universe seems to consist of something we know next to nothing about - dark energy and dark matter. All our knowledge about physics however is based on ordinary energy/matter which makes up less than 5% of what we know as the universe.
There are several strategies for attacking this problem of understanding of physical reality, and already today we can see the beginnings of the development of a new conception of the world, where physics is placed in a broader context of human knowledge. It goes via basic ideas of information and computation. This development is a consequence of the advances in information processing technologies which affect knowledge production and our grasp of the fundamental ideas of reality, human mind and cognition, knowledge, sciences, humanities, engineering and arts.
Many have already declared that reality basically is an informational phenomenon. To name but a few: Wheeler with IT FROM BIT; Floridi with Informational Structural Realism; Lloyd, Seife, Vedral with Decoding Reality; Frieden with Physics from Fisher Information and more. How does this information relate to energy/matter?
The essential for new approaches is closure - coming back to human which is the center of all knowledge production about the world. This self-reflective process has traditionally been avoided because of the practical problems in addressing it computationally. Nowadays we have tools at our disposal which help us understand self-reflective dynamical structures, so this does not present a problem for modeling anymore.
The idea is to explore how the framework for knowledge production relates to what can be known (and all of our knowledge is structured information so laws of physics are information about the informational structure of the world – a meta-information). It connects information with matter-energy as we find it in the world and in the observer of the world.
This special issue will explore all the different facets of the relationship between the world (physical world as we know it in form of energy/matter) and information.
Dr. Gordana Dodig Crnkovic
Guest Editor
- Dr. Gordana Dodig Crnkovic's previous article in Information:
https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/3/2/204 - Book Review on Joseph E. Brenner's book 'Theory of Information':
https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/3/2/224
Keywords
- information
- energy/matter
- IT FROM BIT
- informational structural realism
- decoding reality
- physics from information