Article in "Information" about the meaning and purpose of information
Starting from the core issue of epistemology, this article defines 'information' as a core systemic component, and Knowledge Federation as socio-technical system development whose goal is to make good use of information and IT. The IEforGJ project presents a prime example.

Dear Colleagues and Friends

I have been invited by Mark Burgin editor of  the electronic journal  Information (ISSN 2078-2489; http://www.mdpi.com/journal/informationto guest edit a special issue of the journal. The objective of the special issue entitled "Information: Its Different Modes and its Relation to Meaning" is to explore the nature of information in the wide variety of forms that it takes and answer the following questions: 

What is information? 

Does the nature of information change depending on the context in which it is employed? For example is the information stored in DNA or on a computer the same? 

Is there a difference between symbolic information like that stored in a book or on a computer and DNA which is not symbolic of RNA but catalyzes its production.

What is the relationship of information to the medium in which it is stored or instantiated? 

What is the relation of information to any of the following, i.e. to meaning, to data, to knowledge, to wisdom, to science, to physics, to chemistry, to biology, to medicine, to neurophysiology, to neural networks, to psychology, to psychiatry, to evolution, to mathematics, to philosophy, to technology, to computers, to engineering, to design, to economics, to complexity, to chaos, to emergence, to commerce, to business, to knowledge management, to culture, to history, to art, to music, to the sender, to the receiver, to the channel, to systems theory, to cybernetics, to ontology, to epistemology, to consciousness, and to x where x is some other topic of interest to you. 

What role did the concept of or role of information play in the work of some scholar such as Shannon, Weaver, Kolmogorov, Chaitin, McLuhan, Innis, Plato, Aristotle, Newton, Freud, Jung, Kant, Descarte, Russell, Whitehead, Pierce, Bateson, Turing, Gödel, von Neumann or any other scholar of interest to you?

Other questions that can be addressed are those raised  in my paper What is Information?: Why is It Relativistic and What is Its Relationship to Materiality, Meaning and Organization,  which will appear in the special issue of the  journal that I am guest editing and is attached:



I have included in this email a large number of my colleagues, many more than the number of  articles (10) that I can accept and will find their way into the special issue of the journal. If you are interested in being part of this project please let me know as soon as possible for planning purposes. The deadline for a letter of intent will be February 3, 2012. The deadline for an abstract will be March 1 with a deadline of July 6, 2012 for the final article once the abstract has been accepted. 

I look forward to your responses whether or not you wish to participate in this project. My best wishes to each of you. - Bob Logan

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