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Is information something ontological, or physical or perhaps something else? Some remarks on R. Krzanowski approach to concept of information

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Mścisławski Ł.

Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce

2022

issue 73

147-169

As one may have noticed, the title of this paper is somewhat provocative. We found Roman Krzanowski’s (2020a,b,c; 2022) proposed approach to the problem of information very intriguing. Our aim here is to highlight some advantages when it comes to answering some fundamental questions in the philosophy of physics and metaphysics, as well as the philosophy of information and computer science. This issue is of great importance, so we propose that the introduction of some subtle distinctions between ontological and epistemological information can be regarded as being analogous to G.F.R. Ellis’s analyses of the passage of time in his concept of the Crystallizing Block Universe (Ellis and Goswami, 2012). This analogy could be useful when further studying the relations between different types of information. We also suggest some subjects for further study, ones where Krzanowski’s proposal could serve as a very solid foundation for examining traditional metaphysical issues by combining classical philosophical doctrines with the new approach.

From philosophy in science to information in nature: Michael Heller’s ideas

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Krzanowski R.

Zagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce

2023

issue 75

83-105

This paper discusses the concept of information formulated by Michael (Michał) Heller. Heller-a philosopher, theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and theologian-provided a complex image of information and its role in nature, which is rarely found in studies of information. Heller posited that the laws of nature may be interpreted as information, or as providing information, presenting this as a complementary view to scientific structuralism (not discussed in this paper). According to Heller, the informational content of a structure in nature is inversely proportional to that structure’s degree of freedom. The more constrained or complex a structure is, and the less likely it is to exist, the more information it contains. In Heller’s view, the concept of information in Shannon’s Theory of Communication (ToC) is inadequate for expressing the notion of information beyond a numerical measure of a signal structure. Information in Heller’s research closely aligns with the concepts of Jacquette’s and Perzanowski’s combinatorial ontology (concepts not discussed in this paper) and the general theory of information (GTI) of Mark Burgin, although Heller did not explicitly make these connections.

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Is information something ontological, or physical or perhaps something else? Some remarks on R. Krzanowski approach to concept of information

From philosophy in science to information in nature: Michael Heller’s ideas