Toward the essence of information Leonel Morales Dfaz I will always remember a special day when i was dining at the university student's residence of Ciudad Vieja in Guatemala, Central America. To the same table I was sharing with others came a catholic priest who also was a philosophy professor. The conversation started immediately and the priest told us about a new crazy man, this time coming from the information and systems field, who was asserting that every thing that exists in the universe could be reduced to matter, energy and information. The history of philosophy teaches us how many of these reductionisms were forgotten with time, so our friend, the priest, did not worried about the situation, actually it seemed to be some how funny to him. The situation instantly triggered my curiosity. What is the role information plays philosophically? How can information be defined? I had a philosopher in front of me, so I decided to ask him all these questions and he pointed to the field of substance and accidents. Accidents are information or data about an object that permits us to reach the substance of it and, through this path, to know it. The
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Toward the essence of information
Diaz, Leonel Morales
Follow ACM SIGCHI Bulletin
, Volume 32 (2)
Association for Computing Machinery – Apr 1, 2000
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