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

✍ Scribed by Hermann Haken, Juval Portugali (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 96
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Complexity
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 Shannonian information. The authors show that in cognition, Shannonian and semantic information are interrelated as two aspects of a cognitive process termed as information adaptation. In the latter the mind/brain adapts to the environment by the deflating and/or inflating of the information conveyed by the environment. In the process of information adaptation, quantitative variations in Shannon’s information entail different meanings while different meanings affect the quantity of information. The book illustrates the above conceptually and mathematically by reference to three cognitive processes: pattern recognition, face learning and the recognition of a moving object.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Shannonian Versus Semantic Information and Cognition....Pages 1-10
Information Versus Data....Pages 11-17
The Empirical Basis of Information Adaptation....Pages 19-29
A Complexity Theory Approach to Information....Pages 31-41
On Synergetic Computers and Other Machines....Pages 43-51
Pattern Recognition as a Paradigm for Information Adaptation....Pages 53-59
From General Principles of Information Adaptation to Concrete Specific Models....Pages 61-77
Some Further Applications and Discussions of Information Adaptation....Pages 79-83
Back Matter....Pages 85-90

✦ Subjects

Complexity; Socio- and Econophysics, Population and Evolutionary Models; Computational Intelligence; Nonlinear Dynamics