THE NATURE OF INFORMATION

Mind, consciousness, and the fundamental creative force in the universe are mass-

energy forms o

wholly

mass-energy,

space-time continuum. That

is the central

premise of the paper offered

for sale on this website. THE NATURE OF

INFORMATION

describes a revolutionary

theory that

defines

the fundamental universal creative force

or mechanism

, and

mind

and

consciousness

entirely

mass-energy

phenome

eliminating

, conceptually,

the so-called

mind-body

or brain-mind

problem

, and

describes a mass-energy universe that embodies its own immanent creative and control

mechanisms, obviating the need for any metaphysical or supernatural force to explain

them.

In my book, THE NATURE OF INFORMATION (Praeger/Greenwood), I described

the

mechanism by which information can be seen to be an entirely mass-energy

process.

The promotional

material

for the book reads

, in part,

as follows:

Although modern science describes the universe as a mass-energy system, and the

objects and events that comprise it as mass-energy phenomena, it utilizes the

abstract

term "information" extensively to characterize not only a broad range of

physical,

chemical and biological processes, but also mind, consciousness and

mental

events,

despite the lack of a general definition of information valid for all its

uses. THE

NATURE

OF INFORMATION provides such a definition, resulting not only

identification of the

fundamental creative and control mechanism immanent in the

universe by which mass-

energy systems generate and regulate their organization and

behavior, but the natural

unification of matter and mind.

THE NATURE OF INFORMATION

traces the evolution of the term

"information" from

its

general linguistic use into the mainstream of modern science,

proposing an

entirely

new

definition of information as a mass-energy phenomenon.

demonstrates

that

information is in all cases a form phenomenon, both form

and

information are

mass-

energy, rather than abstract, phenomena, mind can be

viewed

as a mass-

energy form-

manipulating process, and form constitutes a

mechanism

immanent in

the physical

universe via which mass-energy systems can

communicate

informationally and control

their own energetic activities.

The universe as a total mass-energy system will be seen to be able to exercise its

creative, control and communicative functions by manipulating forms of itself (e.g.,

structures, patterns, arrangements, etc.), many of which remain constant over

multiple

inward and outward mass-energy flows, enabling us to view ourselves,

finally,

forms

of a self-organizing, self-regulating, mass-energy universe, joined

the rest

the

world

in a natural and fundamental way. As physicist Victor

Weisskopf

put it,

Nature, in

the

form of man, begins to recognize itself." The

Nature of

Information. p. x.

The review of the book by the Australasian Journal of Philosophy (Vol. 68. No. 2)

reads,

in part:

"Mind, self-consciousness, and other such obstreperous rebels against the

creeping

materialist hegemony are cajoled into peaceful co-existence with science,

by turning

them into sophisticated patterns of flow of form...The doctrine that...

mind is just

matter

taken not as demeaning mind, but as ennobling matter...

Materialism takes

the

mantle

of evangelical deep ecology

This revolutionary work on understanding information flow as an entirely mass-

energy

process will prove invaluable to a wide range of scholars in the physical,

chemical,

biological, cognitive and social sciences, as well as the humanities, and

particular

significance to information theorists, philosophers of science,

philosophers

of mind, and

all those interested in understanding the universe

, including mind and consciousness,

a total mass-

energy system

THE NATURE OF INFORMATION

now also available as

a twenty-

five

page

paper in

which I have distilled

all

the central ideas contained in

the book.

You can

purchase

and

download

the paper

immediately by clicking on

the

link marked ORDER. A copy

the

six-

page bibliography from the book is

included

with the paper.

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The book,

THE NATURE OF INFORMATION

is available from Greenwood Press at

www.

greenwood.com

and at Amazon.com

. It also is available at many university libraries,

including those

Princeton,

Harvard,

MIT,

Cornell, Columbia,

Rutgers

, Stanford,

UCLA, and

Oxford, as well as

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The Nature of Information