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It is assumed that the development of information theory has to be based on fundamental concepts and laws. The ontological premises for information genesis are considered. The nature of information is related to constructive relationships existing in nature. Information is defined in terms of the fundamental concept of code transformations, which are characterized by thesauruses and languages. An attempt is made to show the opportunities for symmetric interpretation of instructive and receptive information within the limits of the general semantic definition of information. Development of natural language tends to transfer from subject to object semantics. A technosphere information basis is introduced and an analogy is drawn to the information of the biosphere’s genetic stock.
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Original Russian Text © E.Ya. Volchenkov, 2010, published in Nauchno-Tekhnicheskaya Informatsiya, Seriya 2, 2010, No. 3, pp. 1–7.
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Volchenkov, E.Y. On the nature of information: the physicosemantic approach. Autom. Doc. Math. Linguist. 44, 57–63 (2010). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0005105510020019
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Key words
- physicosemantic information theory
- constructive relations
- pattern
- structural variety
- emergence
- management
- functional object
- functional code
- coding
- code carriers
- choice
- multistability
- information
- thesaurus
- language
- grammar
- linguistic relativity
- instructive information
- assembling
- receptive information
- reflection
- object semantics
- subject semantics
- natural language
- information basis of technosphere
- scientific and technical information
- genetic information