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What Is Information?

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According to modern biology, the molecules of heredity carry the information for a living being. Yet can molecules really carry information at all? Is information not inevitably associated with human communication? Is information, as biology understands it, actually a natural entity? What is the true nature of information?

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Küppers, BO. (2018). What Is Information?. In: The Computability of the World. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67369-1_4

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