Existing in the Information Dimension: An Introduction to Emergent Information Theory

Boyd, Daniel

  • 出版商: Routledge
  • 出版日期: 2024-09-09
  • 售價: $5,990
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 272
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 1032567023
  • ISBN-13: 9781032567020
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商品描述

This book presents new insights into the nature of the human mind as a product of the brain. It does so by discussing how biological and technological information systems differ from their counterparts with physical functions, presenting Emergent Information Theory as a solution to the mind-body problem and overarching framework for all biological and technological information systems.

Emergent Information Theory is a new theoretical approach to the specific type of information and emergence exploited by biological neural networks and digital systems. One of the conclusions of this theory is that these entities and processes are non-physical and exist in an information dimension connected to but distinct from the three dimensions of physical space. It is in this information dimension that our minds exist, making it ultimately more our home as sentient beings than the physical realm inhabited by our bodies. This book presents existing scientific and philosophical evidence that leads to this conclusion, followed by application of the theory to biological and technological information systems. The author concludes with a call to action for further research.

This fascinating text will be of interest to any researcher of consciousness, the mind-body problem, or AI, as well as those working in related areas such as physical neuroscience and systems theory.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書提供了關於人類心智作為大腦產物的新見解。它通過討論生物和技術信息系統如何與其具有物理功能的對應物不同,提出了Emergent Information Theory作為心身問題的解決方案,以及所有生物和技術信息系統的總體框架。

Emergent Information Theory是一種針對生物神經網絡和數位系統所利用的特定類型信息和湧現現象的新理論方法。這一理論的結論之一是,這些實體和過程是非物理的,存在於一個與物理空間的三個維度相連但又不同的信息維度中。正是在這個信息維度中,我們的心智存在,使其最終成為我們作為有知覺存在的家,而非我們身體所棲息的物理領域。本書呈現了支持這一結論的現有科學和哲學證據,隨後將該理論應用於生物和技術信息系統。作者最後呼籲進一步的研究行動。

這本引人入勝的著作將吸引任何對意識、心身問題或人工智慧進行研究的人,以及那些在物理神經科學和系統理論等相關領域工作的人。

作者簡介

Daniel Boyd is an independent researcher living in the Netherlands developing Emergent Information Theory as a theoretical approach to biological and technological information systems. He is currently a member of the Board of IS4SI (International Society for the Study of Information).

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

丹尼爾·博伊德(Daniel Boyd)是一位居住在荷蘭的獨立研究者,正在發展新興信息理論(Emergent Information Theory),作為生物和技術信息系統的理論方法。他目前是國際信息研究學會(IS4SI)的董事會成員。