Information and Meaning

Menant, Christophe

doi:10.3390/e5020193

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“…To start with, we shall discuss the ideas proposed by Menant (2003) and El-Hani et al (2006). We agree with these researchers and assert that information in biological systems is 'information with meaning'.…”

Section: Information-with-meaningmentioning

confidence: 69%

Understanding the Emergence of Cellular Organization

Riofrío

2008

Biosemiotics

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More than one researcher is currently proposing that the notion of information become an important element for defining living systems as well as for explaining conditions that make their origins possible. During the pre-biotic era, the type of compounds encountered would mainly have been very simple in nature and might have been immersed in the natural dynamic of the physical world and in processes of self-organization. It is furthermore quite possible that they formed a relationship between and among certain types of processes that here we are specifically proposing as central for the emergence of cell organization. Consequently, an important initial step towards constructing a theory of biological information is to ask ourselves the question: how do biological systems process information? In this way, we will be contributing to the proposals of this paper where we seek to identify general principles that govern biological computing and that deal with biosemiotic approaches as they are defended in naturalistic normative terms.Keywords Biological computing . Bio-meaning information . Evolvability . Informational dynamic systems . Naturalistic normative emergence . Small-world phenomenon "The study of the twin processes of communication and signification can be regarded as ultimately a branch of the life science, or as belonging in large part to nature, in some part to culture, which is, of course, also a part of nature."

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Section: Information-with-meaningmentioning

confidence: 69%

Understanding the Emergence of Cellular Organization

Riofrío

2008

Biosemiotics

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“…) Archivists are reveling in a kind of technological rapture while finding themselves in the throes of technological anxiety. The profession is enjoying unprecedented professional opportunity and stature while also experiencing a crisis of occupational instability 6 For example, one can find the view that ''techno-science is actually wrecking the resources of scholarly knowledge'' (Virilio 2005, p. 2), the history of the confounding of information theory and questions of meaning (Schiller 1997, p. 104f), illustrations of the concatenation of information with meaning (Menant 2003;Harms 2004, p. 116f), a discussion of the relationship between technical reproducibility and its inverse correlation with meaning (Baudrillard 1994), or a project on the standardization of meaning for automated roaming web agents (Berners-Lee et al 2001, p. 284f). and professional identity.…”

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Perfect present, perfect gift: finding a place for archival consciousness in social theory

Brothman

2010

Arch Sci

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In 1924, Canadian Dominion Archivist Arthur Doughty (1860-1936 characterized archives as ''the gift of one generation to another.'' This essay takes these words seriously. It sets aside the common habit of thinking of archival work in terms of ''keeping'' and ''preserving'' and experiments with-re-imaginesarchives as a form of gift giving. However, as a growing body of scholarship across numerous disciplines is discovering, gift giving is a complex social act. Thus, construing archives as a form of gift opens up new avenues of critical inquiry into archives' unique temporal consciousness and its importance to accounts of the establishment and unmaking of any social order. This article explores the nature of archival consciousness and its place in social theory.

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“…H DAD/FLD (Equation (10)) and H FLD/DAD (Equation (11)). Nevertheless, the question regarding the significance of these information entropies obtained by means of conditional or non-conditional probabilities is still debatable, although the mathematical formalisms are now well defined by the theory of probabilities [20][21][22].…”

Section: Evaluation Of Information Entropies H Dadfld From Conditionmentioning

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Conditional/non‐conditional probabilities and information entropies assigned to high‐performance liquid chromatography with diode array and fluorescence detection

David

Medvedovici

2005

Journal of Chemometrics

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A general formalism describing the main conditional and non-conditional probabilities as well as their corresponding information entropies that can be assigned to analysis by high-performance liquid chromatography with diode array and fluorescence detection is discussed. Some quantitative parameters of the detection (absorbance, fluorescence, peak height, data acquisition rate) are used in order to estimate these probabilities. The events within chromatographic peaks are conditioned by their maximum (peak height). Several examples are discussed and conditional and non-conditional information entropies by Shannon's formula are evaluated by given relationships.

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Information and Meaning

Cited by 28 publications

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Understanding the Emergence of Cellular Organization

Understanding the Emergence of Cellular Organization

Perfect present, perfect gift: finding a place for archival consciousness in social theory

Conditional/non‐conditional probabilities and information entropies assigned to high‐performance liquid chromatography with diode array and fluorescence detection

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