{"id":123,"date":"2008-12-22T21:29:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T05:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalcobbler.com\/?page_id=123"},"modified":"2009-01-01T22:38:55","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T06:38:55","slug":"more-about-information-play","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.digitalcobbler.com\/?page_id=123","title":{"rendered":"More about Information Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

One very important theoretical capacity should be discussed here. Much of the
\nwork of current computational scientists (that is: researchers who are using
\ncomputer models and routines to solve the problems in their discipline, as opposed
\nto “computer scientists” who are developing the computers themselves)
\nis based on the idea that they are running a process to solve their problems
\nand that the process itself is the solution, not the product of the process
\nonce it is finished. Of the several ways in which process can be (and has been)
\ndescribed, for our purposes play<\/em> might be the most useful. As a critical
\naspect of today’s information, play has three manifestations that define our
\ninformation age: profusion<\/em>, complexity<\/em>, and emergence<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Profusion<\/em> is the most immediately obvious idea. We have a ‘cornucopia’
\nof information at hand.
\nComplexity<\/em> is at a deeper level. It
\nis opposite to the information idioms of previous ages. With complexity,
\ninformation is not linear nor predictable.
\nEmergent<\/em> systems
\nlead from studies of complexity. They embody concepts like ‘self-organized’
\nand ‘adaptive’ systems using ‘feedback loops’. Emergent systems have another
\nproperty: they follow the “arrow of time” (Hobart & Schiffman
\n238).<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

There are pleny of other discussions and explanations of their analysis of
\nthese concepts. Look down near the bottom of this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

It is also worth noting that not everybody agrees with their analysis, as this
\npage<\/a> demonstrates.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Back to <\/a>Some Information Theory<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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