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This book presents the concepts needed to deal with self-organizing complexsystems from a unifying point of viewthat uses macroscopic data. The meanings of information are discussed. A general formulation of the maximum inform-ation (entropy) principle is used. With aid of synergeticsadequate objective constraints for a large class of systemsare formulated and examples are given from physics andbiology.

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From the reviews of the third edition: This enlarged edition of Information and Self-Organization addresses the concept of information in depth: ranging from Shannon information, from which all semantics has been exorcised, to the effects of information on receivers and the self-creation of meaning that is, toward semantic information . Nevertheless, both the qualitative lessons and quantitative analysis presented in the book very useful for artificial life researchers. (Mikhail Prokopenko, Artificial Life, Vol. 15, 2009)

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