INFORMATION (Evolution of)
| Collection | International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics |
|---|---|
| Year | 2004 |
| Vol. (num.) | 2(1) |
| ID | ◀ 1665 ▶ |
| Object type | General information |
S. GOONATILAKE proposed an evolutive hypothesis about information: “The evolution of information on earth gave rise to the sequence of information cores which emerged corresponding to these different environmental stages. In the first core, the struggles with the environment is coded in DNA. Later, outer flow cores are 'externalized' from this inner core of DNA, corresponding to the cultural flow lines running through brains. Still later, exosomatic information flow lines are externalized out from the biological package” (1991, p.132).
Moreover: “The different flow line cores do not exist unconnected and unattached to each other. They are inexorably linked… It is a continuing process, of reacting with and adapting to the environment. The tendency towards further elaboration and evolution of information is therefore but a necessary outcome of an almost inevitable phylogenetic process” (Ibid).
The succesive and progressive forms of information are thus embedded within each other. Curiously, this process seems to be accelerating through time, which parallels F. MEYER's theory of evolutive acceleration.