Information, Reality, and Modern Physics

E. Saridakis

DOI:10.1080/02698595.2017.1331980

Corpus ID: 126411165

Information, Reality, and Modern Physics

@article{Saridakis2016InformationRA,
  title={Information, Reality, and Modern Physics},
  author={E. Saridakis},
  journal={International Studies in the Philosophy of Science},
  year={2016},
  volume={30},
  pages={327 - 341}
}

E. Saridakis
Published 2016
Mathematics
International Studies in the Philosophy of Science

ABSTRACT Since special relativity and quantum mechanics, information has become a central concept in our description and understanding of physical reality. This statement may be construed in different ways, depending on the meaning we attach to the concept of information, and on our ontological commitments. One distinction is between mind-independent ‘Shannon information’ and a traditional conception of information, connected with meaning and knowledge. Another, orthogonal, distinction is… Expand

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