EMformation…EMformation…

Information….

inFORMation..

Geologic processes, atmospheric systems, ecosystems, and societies are interconnected...each receiving energy and materials from the other, returning same, and acting through feedback mechanisms to self-organize the whole in a grand interplay of matter, energy, and information.

Evolution controls species, species control ecosystems, and ecosystems control the next round of evolution…

Life cycle of forest/trees as an information cycle…Life cycle of forest/trees as an information cycle…

Life cycle of salmon as an information cycle…Life cycle of salmon as an information cycle…

Information cycle…

Island biogeographic theory as information exchange…Island biogeographic theory as information exchange…

Processes of divergence disorder structure and disperse materials and information.

EnergySources

DisordedParts

Order

Depreciation of Order

Material dispersal/recycle

Production of Order

EnergySources

DisordedParts

Order

Depreciation of Order

Material dispersal/recycle

Production of Order

Processes of convergence build order, adding structure, reassembling materials, upgrading energy and creating new information.

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ShortTerm

Selected

Shared

Transformity

(b) Information Hierarchy

(a) Information Maintenance Circle

EnergySources

Operate

Select &Extract

Copy & Share

Use

Test

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ShortTerm

Selected

Shared

Transformity

(b) Information Hierarchy

(a) Information Maintenance Circle

EnergySources

Operate

Select &Extract

Copy & Share

Use

Test

Information Cycle…

Materials or information sequestered in unreachable or unusable storages are of no value and often soon lose their importance or relevance. Cycling allows for the continuous convergence and divergence of energy, materials and information.

Materials Information

Divergence

Convergence

EnergySources

Systems of the biosphere are maintained by flows of energy that cycle materials and information. Without continual flows of input energy that build order, systems degrade away. It is through cycling that systems remain adaptive and vital. …

The role of information in Exxon-Valdez oil spill …The role of information in Exxon-Valdez oil spill …

(a) Distribution of population of the United States by stage, age and transformity;

(b) stages in the human life cycle in which functions of higher transformity are added.

Life cycle of human beings passing through the hierarchy of age and experience.

Life cycle of human beings passing through the hierarchy of age and experience.

Tourist represent an input of information to developing economies…

Tourist represent an input of information to developing economies…

…and they extract some information…and they extract some information

Artifacts as an information cycle…

Artifacts as an information cycle…

(a) Spatial convergence and divergence;

(b) people and units of government arranged left to right in order of transformity;

(c) energy basis for social organization.

Superstructure of human social organization which operates environment and economy.

Superstructure of human social organization which operates environment and economy.

The Roman Empire and the creation of symbols that feedback and control populations.

The Roman Empire and the creation of symbols that feedback and control populations.

Forms of government and information used for control.

Forms of government and information used for control.

(a) Species-individual curves for ecosystems;

(b) occupation-individual curves for human occupations in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1964 (Clark et al. 1964);

(c) occupational-listing curve for human business in a telephone directory in Gainesville, FL in 1999 (Odum 1999)

Comparison of species diversity and occupational diversity.Comparison of species diversity and occupational diversity.

Society and its shared images of unified power symbolized with the dragon..

Society and its shared images of unified power symbolized with the dragon..

The system of high emergy sports extravaganza, a pulsing

surge of social sharing

The system of high emergy sports extravaganza, a pulsing

surge of social sharing

The increasing difference between the emergy-exergy ratio of genes and transformity of biomass suggests that there is not a constant relationship between the emergy costs of the biological carrier of information and the information carried. The transformity increases much faster than does the emergy-exergy ratio, which suggests that the complexity of the carrier is increasing faster than the complexity of the information carried. Obviously we need more analyses and examples before we were to propose a general principle.

Table 3. Comparison of Emergy Exergy Ratio of Genes and the solar transformity of biomass

A B CPopulation Emergy-ExergyRatio Solar TransformityRatio of B / A

(sej/J) (sej/J)

Soil Bacteria 0.9 2.3 2.7Phytoplankton 121.8 459.5 3.8Phytoplankton 243.7 919.0 3.8Zooplankton 426.4 16082.2 37.7Corn 1177.1 31543.6 26.8Wheat 1178.0 31566.6 26.8Mice 1794.5 124063.1 69.1Snails 4340.3 689239.3 158.8Fish 10288.2 2756957.0 268.0Deer 19575.9 7518973.7 384.1

EMformation…EMformation…

Matter

EnergyInformation

Matter

EnergyInformation

Emformation…

All processes require three driving energies…All processes require three driving energies…

Energy

(a) Non-living Autocatalytic Structures Examples: Storms, Mountains, Flames

(b) Living Structure

Structure

Materials

EnergyInformation Cycle

Structure

Materials

Operation

Operation

Recycle

Energy

(a) Non-living Autocatalytic Structures Examples: Storms, Mountains, Flames

(b) Living Structure

Structure

Materials

EnergyInformation Cycle

Structure

Materials

Operation

Operation

Recycle

The difference between non-living and living systems is the information cycle

Odum suggested…

Emformation…

Giannantoni’s Ordinality …Giannantoni’s Ordinality …

Giannantoni’s Cardinality …Giannantoni’s Cardinality …

Material Raw Material Production/Construction(E9 sej/g) (E9 sej/g)

Wood Lumber 0.59 2.43Glass 1.35 8.66Aluminum 2.16 12.68Steel 2.44 3.85

Emergy in Material and Form…