Reese-Schäfer II 31
Definition information/Luhmann/Reese-Schäfer: nothing but an event that causes a combination of differences.
Reese-Schäfer II 38
Def Information/Luhmann/Reese-Schäfer: event, that selects system states. Information reserves its meaning in the repetition, but loses the information value. - The event disappears.
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Communication.
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AU Cass 6
Information/Luhmann: there is no "genetical" information, because the genes only contain structures, not events.
Information/Luhmann: is selection of alternatives. - This presupposes that one defines a possibility range against others.
Information is only within systems - also the possibilities only exist in the system. - Not in the environment.
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Environment/Talcott Parsons.
Time/information: time plays a role because the information disappears whith acquaintance. - Information is not transmitted. - ((s) because it is an event.)
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AU Cass 13
Definition information/Maturana/Luhmann: Vs genetic information: Information is always a moment of communication, only within a system.
It works as an information when it comes to finding the next operation - ((s) not circular: - "A works as A, when ...".)
Information: is not "data"; that would be "transmission theory".
Two aspects:
1st from which is selected
2nd this and nothing else is selected.
Only within a system information is possible. - The system determines what information is: e.g.
Socialist system, planned economy: only performance is an information.
Capitalist system: in capitalist systems unemployment numbers are no information.
Communication/Luhmann: no information without communication. - But communication may repeat itself, information does not.
Understanding: does not exist outside communication.
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System/Luhmann, >
Operation/Luhmann.
