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What is Information ?

From matter towards meaning

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We understand what we choose to understand, building up the tools to carry out: the “big book of Nature” by itself doesn’t display what is to be known. Yet the whole reality is always present round about us, eternally sparkling and rolling on. But amongst it, mind is limited to choosing what he is able to evolve.

“The highest point a man can reach is surprise”.Goethe

Communication presented at the 8th GIRI Meeting, December 1994, Jerusalem, Israel.

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    A. Lagache

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  1. Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Montpellier I, Montpellier, France

    Madeleine Bastide

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Lagache, A. (1997). What is Information ?. In: Bastide, M. (eds) Signals and Images. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5804-6_23

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