Towards a Transdisciplinary Frame: Bridging Domains, a Multidimensional Approach to Information

Abstract

A trans-disciplinary frame is proposed, aimed at addressing the very understanding of information in all its of theoretical, technical and practical problems concerning information. It is based on an already active interdisciplinary International community and a critical mass of research groups at the global level. By means of bridging these communities, a new transdisciplinary science of information might emerge as an integrated framework in which information will be considered in all its formal, natural, cognitive, social, technical, ethical and philosophical aspects.Keywords: Science of Information, General Theory of Information, information content, information measure, information ethics, philosophy of information, information technologies Acknowledgement: The authors wish to express special thanks to the organizers of FIS2010 (Beijin) for their kind invitation and to Mary Jo Deering whose generosity has made possible our participation. We are also grateful to all the participants and contributors in the theme proposal to the European Science Foundation submitted last spring, in which the ideas constituting this article were proposed to vertebrate the new field of science of information.

Emergence and Evolution of Meaning: The General Definition of Information (GDI) Revisiting Program—Part I: The Progressive Perspective: Top-Down

“…Right after Shannon's oblivion of meaning, the development of a proper account of the relation between meaning and information has comprised a continuous effort in the integral understanding of information. It was, for instance, the endeavor of Bar-Hillel & Carnap in the 1950s; the algorithmic approaches of Solomonov, Kolmogov, and Chaitin offered new insights in the 1960s; the study of self-organized systems suggested different perspectives, arisen from a broad spectrum of sciences, in the 1970s; Dretske, as well as Barwise and Perry advanced new analytic approaches in the 1980s; and many other semiotic frameworks have considered the centrality of the relation between meaning and information in the last decades [3][4][5]. Furthermore, this is something to which even Shannon agreed, though he decided to focus on the syntactical aspects aiming at solving the technical problems he was interested in [6,7].…”

“…Finding a more robust ground for the concept of information might solve indeed the lack of common understanding of information throughout the sciences as we have discussed elsewhere [3][4][5].…”