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From Information to In-formation; implications in neuroscience

Dr. Florin Munteanu

Center for Complexity Studies - UNESCO center

www.complexity.ro, florin@complexity.ro

The advent of quantum physics in the early twentieth century and the birth of computer

science, has defined a paradigm shift by introducing a new concept: the information. If the energy-

matter paradigm was sufficient to explain the reality of industrial society, the emergence of

information technologies required a reformulation of the ontological base by using the triad:

Information-Energy-Matter. Under this new view, we need the conceptual energy redefinition,

with profound implications for engineering and for structuring a new kind of society, known as

Information Society, precursor of the Knowledge based Society. It speaks today of a "condensate"

energy when referring to matter and an "encoded energy when referring to the information, withthe meaning of in-formation (morphogenetic causes). Victor Sahleanu defined a new type of

interaction in his book Eseu de biologie informaional ever since 1973. This interaction is the

informational link, opposed to a causal link, and is based on codes and messages, having the role of

adjusting or triggering the behavior of a system. Mihai Drgnescu formalized this approach into

his new vision: The Orthophysics1.

Based on this new approach, we can define a new kind of technology (the ortho-

technology) based on a new type of interaction: intro-opening 2and new devices: orthotrons,

phenomenological processor etc. It is foreseen a jump from a technology, based on energy-matter

flows (with very low efficiency and a significant environmental contamination) to a quantumengineering, based on "information streaming, emergent properties, nonlinear phenomena , with

profound implication in redefining of human being (brain structure, cognitive processes, social

behavior) 3

In this context, the paper is focused on the main stages of the formation and evolution of

the term of information (in-formation), define a set of properties that characterize this info-energo-

matter paradigm, with the intention of highlighting the theoretical and technological openings,

resulting from this reformulation of the ontological basis of Reality4. It focuses on the integrative

role of complexity science5 in defining this vision and highlights the role of trans-disciplinary

methodology as a conceptual and theoretical approach to the processes and phenomena of Nature

in general, and in neurosciences in particular.

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