Introduction to the Series

Foreword

Introduction

List of Contributors

Approaches to Unification

A Note on Evolution

Ervin Laszlo

Is a Unified Theory of Information Feasible? A Trialogue

Rafael Capurro

Peter Fleissner

Wolfgang Hofkirchner

Information: Resurrection of the Cartesian Physics

Koichiro Matsuno

Information Science as a Paradigmatic Instance of a Problem-Based Theory

Antonino Drago

Emanuele Drago

A Rudimentary Theory of Information: Consequences for Information Science and Information Systems

Petros A. M. Gelephithis

What Is a Possible Ontological and Epistemological Framework for a True Universal Information Science'? The Suggestion of a Cybersemiotics

Sren Brier

Towards a Unified Concept of Information: Presentation of a New Approach

Federico Fluckiger

Concepts Of Information

System as Information---Information as System

Klaus Kornwachs

Cartesian Cut, Heisenberg Cut, and the Concept of Complexity

Harald Atmanspacher

Information: Definition, Origin and Evolution

Jiayin Min

A Unifying Typology of Information

Bela Antal Banathy

Dimensional Symmetry Breaking, Information and the Arrow of Time in Cantorian Space

Muhammad S. El Naschie

Some Considerations About Interaction and Exchange of Information Between Open and Self-Organizing Systems

Norbert Fenzl

Actio non est Reactio: An Extension of the Concept of Causality Towards Phenomena of Information

Peter Fleissner

Wolfgang Hofkirchner

On Limits: Towards a Prototheory of Inform(ul)ation

Josef Wallmannsberger

Self-Organizing Systems

The Rise of Information in an Evolutionary Universe

Eric J. Chaisson

The Overall Pattern of the Evolution of Information in Dissipative, Materi Systems

Stanley N. Salthe

Entropy, Information and Predictability of Evolutionary Systems

Werner Ebeling

Entropy and Information

Katalin Martinas

Degeneracy of the Local Structure Renormalizing Infinite Time and Space

Yukio-Pegio Gunji

Quantum Information in an Evolutionary Perspective

Gerhard Grossing

Information and the Complementarity Game

Karl Svozil

Structural and Functional Information---An Evolutionary Approach to Pragmatic Information

Frank Schweitzer

Life And Consciousness

Information---Neither Matter nor Mind: On the Essence and on the Evolutionary Stage Conception of Information

Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski

Information Processing as an Intrinsic Property of Biological Systems: Origin and Dynamics of Information

Abir U. Igamberdiev

Cell Molecular Quantum Computer and Principles of New Science

Efim A. Liberman

Svetlana V. Minina

The Natural History of Information Processors

Claudio Zamitti Mammana

The Evolution of Consciousness as a Self-Organizing Information System in the Society of Other Such Systems

Allan Combs

Sally Goerner

The Topological Inventions of Life: From the Specialization of Multicellular Colonies to the Functioning of the Vertebrate Brain

Pedro C. Marijuan

The Feigenbaum Scenario in a Unified Science of Life and Mind

Ernest Lawrence Rossi

The Demotion of Alpha-Homo sapiens: Consciousness, Punctuated Equilibrium, and the Laws of the Game

William S. Dockens III

Society And Technology

Organisms, Machines, and Societies: From the Vertical Structure of Adaptability to the Management of Information

Michael Conrad

Function Support as an Information Systems Development Paradigm

Roberto R. Kampfner

Interaction, Information and Meaning

Robert Artigiani

The Structure of ``Communities'' and Communications in the New Millennium

Susantha Goonatilake

The Role of Variety in the Evolution of Information Society

Gottfried Stockinger

Knowledge in the Information Society

Nina Degele

The Noosphere Vision of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Vladimir I. Vernadsky in the Perspective of Information and of Worldwide Communication

Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski

Peter Kruger

Webometry: Measuring the Complexity of the World Wide Web

Ralph H. Abraham

The Emerging Global Brain

Tom Stonier

Index of Names

Subject Index