Actions for Information and Reflection [electronic resource] : On some Problems of Cybernetics and how Contemporary Dialectical Materialism Copes with Them
Information and Reflection [electronic resource] : On some Problems of Cybernetics and how Contemporary Dialectical Materialism Copes with Them / by Peter Paul Kirschenmann
1. Cybernetics and Information -- 1.1. On Cybernetics -- 1.2. The General Debate about Cybernetics -- 1.3. On the Question: What is Information? -- 1.4. Two Philosophic Views on Information -- 2. Marxism-Leninism and Cybernetics -- 2.1. On the Relationship between Dialectical Materialism and the Sciences -- 2.2. Rejection and Acceptance of Cybernetics -- 2.3. On the Philosophic Problems of Cybernetics -- I / Information -- 3. Preliminaries -- 4. Language and Information -- 5. Information Theory -- 6. The Interpretation of Information Measures; Isomorphy -- 7. Signal Determination -- II/The Dialectical-Materialist Doctrine of Reflection -- 8. Sources and Foundations of the Doctrine of Reflection -- 9. Reflection Theory -- 10. Reflection as General Property of all Matter -- III/Dialectical-Materialist Contributions to the ‘Information’ the me -- 11. Survey -- 12. Information as Connection -- 13. Entropy and Structural Information -- 14. Elaboration of the Doctrine of Reflection -- 15. Information in a Dialectical-Materialist Theory of Signs -- 16. Concluding Remarks -- References -- Index Of Names.