Italiano [English below]
Sono stato invitato da Bill Seaman, docente alla Duke University, a intervenire alla conferenza internazionale “Theoretical and Foundational Problems in Information Studies“, nella sessione speciale “Neosentience, Biomimetics, and the Insight Engine 2.0“.
We live in time when information has become visible and its importance appreciated. However, information has been always of the prime importance. Life is founded on information processes. All knowledge of people has been possible only by receiving and processing information. However, information theory was created only in the 20th century and although many think there is only Shannon’s information theory, researchers created many others such as semantic information theory, algorithmic information theory, and economic information theory to mention but a few. The critical achievement in this area was the creation of the general theory of information, which unified all existing information theories, explained the essence of information, revealed physical and mental counterparts of information and provided scientific explanation to many information enigmas such as “It from Bit” of John Wheeler.
The goal of the Conference is to bring together academics, researchers and practitioners, providing beneficial conditions for presenting and discussing recent achievements and problems of information theory and its applications to theoretical issues of science and humanities, as well as information-oriented and information-based theories in different areas. The intention is to allow including the widest possible range of perspectives from philosophical or scientific, to visionary and artistic. There will be an opportunity to present original and creative contributions without any restriction by disciplinary divisions or level of advancement of research.
Le conferenze si sono svolte online, questo è l’abstract del mio intervento:
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e di seguito c’è il video del mio intervento completo:
I have been invited by Bill Seaman, teacher at the Duke University, to give a lecture at the International Conference “Theoretical and Foundational Problems in Information Studies“, in the Special Session “Neosentience, Biomimetics, and the Insight Engine 2.0“.
From the website of the event:
We live in time when information has become visible and its importance appreciated. However, information has been always of the prime importance. Life is founded on information processes. All knowledge of people has been possible only by receiving and processing information. However, information theory was created only in the 20th century and although many think there is only Shannon’s information theory, researchers created many others such as semantic information theory, algorithmic information theory, and economic information theory to mention but a few. The critical achievement in this area was the creation of the general theory of information, which unified all existing information theories, explained the essence of information, revealed physical and mental counterparts of information and provided scientific explanation to many information enigmas such as “It from Bit” of John Wheeler.
The goal of the Conference is to bring together academics, researchers and practitioners, providing beneficial conditions for presenting and discussing recent achievements and problems of information theory and its applications to theoretical issues of science and humanities, as well as information-oriented and information-based theories in different areas. The intention is to allow including the widest possible range of perspectives from philosophical or scientific, to visionary and artistic. There will be an opportunity to present original and creative contributions without any restriction by disciplinary divisions or level of advancement of research.
The presentations were online, this is the abstract of my lecture:
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and this is the video of my complete presentation:
