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October 18 2010

chepedaja

The World as Evolving Information

This paper discusses the benefits of describing the world as information, especially
in the study of the evolution of life and cognition. Traditional studies encounter prob-
lems because it is difficult to describe life and cognition in terms of matter and energy,
since their laws are valid only at the physical scale. However, if matter and energy,
as well as life and cognition, are described in terms of information, evolution can be
described consistently as information becoming more complex.
The paper presents eight tentative laws of information, valid at multiple scales,
which are generalizations of Darwinian, cybernetic, thermodynamic, psychological,
philosophical, and complexity principles. These are further used to discuss the no-
tions of life, cognition and their evolution.
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