Information Adaptation: The Interplay Between Shannon Information and Semantic Information in Cognition

• Main Authors: Haken, Hermann (Author), Portugali, Juval (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Complexity,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Statistical physics.; Sociophysics.; Econophysics.; Computational intelligence.; Complexity, Computational.; Complexity.; Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models.; Computational Intelligence.; Nonlinear Dynamics.

This monograph demonstrates the interplay between Shannon information and semantic information in cognition. It shows that Shannon’s information acts as driving force for the formation of semantic information; and vice versa, namely, that semantic information participates in the formation of Shannon...