UNDERSTANDING INFORMATION AND ITS ROLE AS A TOOL

This book is a collection of works related to information contributed by multiple authors dedicated to the memory of Mark Burgin who passed away on February 18, 2023. Mark Burgin had a very wide range of research and philosophical interests which has a reflection in the very broad subject range of the contributions to this book honoring his memory as an outstanding member of the academic community.

The book Understanding Information and Its Role as a Tool: In Memory of Mark Burgin has two parts which have self-explanatory titles classifying submissions into two categories. One of them is 'Understanding Information: Theory and Foundations' and the other 'Information Realm: Information as a Tool for Exploring Reality'. The former is intended as an inquiry of the concept of information itself, the latter as an inquiry of the use of the concept of information as a methodological tool for diverse forms of inquiries.

The book was originally planned together with Mark Burgin and only after his passing was transformed by its present editors into his memorial. It was intended as a means to promote and disseminate the results of the ongoing research on information stimulated, initiated, or influenced by the 2021 IS4SI Summit. In the present form it goes way beyond its original design to focus on the most recent developments in the fields of information study.

Contents:

• An A Priori Theory of Meaning (Marcus Abundis)
• From Data to Meaning: The Biosemiotic Approach to AI (Òscar Castro and Jordi Vallverdú)
• Morphological Computing as Logic Underlying Cognition in Human, Animal, and Intelligent Machine (Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic)
• Does Information Have Mass? A Review of Melvin Vopson's Claims (Roman Krzanowski)
• Information, Computation, and Cognition: Their Emergence and Disappearance, and the Ever-Changing Entanglement of Their Meaning (Lorenzo Magnani)
• Theoretical Unification of the Fractured Aspects of Information (Marcin J Schroeder)
• A Naturalistic Approach to the Study of Information Philosophy (Zhensong Wang)
• Discrimination and Analysis of Concepts and Relationships Related to Information and Intelligence (Kun Wu, Qiong Nan, and Li Luo)
• Paradigm Change in AI (Yixin Zhong)
• Relational Structure of Conceptual Spaces (Mark Burgin and José María Díaz-Nafría)
• Extended Probabilities and their Application to Statistic Inference (Michele Caprio and Sayan Mukherjee)
• Infoautopoiesis and the Mind–Body Problem (Jaime F Cárdenas-García)
• Why Artificial Intelligence Alone Will Not Save Mankind: Digital Imperatives for Planetarity and Conviviality (Wolfgang Hofkirchner and Hans-Jörg Kreowski)
• Artificial Text: Prolegomena (Rafal Maciag)
• Human Intelligence and the Phenomenon of Information: Open Science, Human Competencies, and Higher Education (Yurii Mielkov, Iryna Drach, and Olga Petroye)
• Trend of Increasing Percentages of Mirror-Symmetric Signs in the Cretan Script Family and the Phoenician Alphabet Family (Peter Z Revesz)
• The Influence of Information Revolution on Human Thinking Paradigm (Liang Wang, Ziyi Ma, and Shengrui Wang)
• Artificial Intelligence and Creative Education of Future Information: On the Importance of Philosophical Basic Quality Education (Tianqi Wu and Ruiyuan Zhang)
• Holographic Thinking of Social Culture from the Perspective of Lost Book Compilation and Calligraphy Inheritance (Tianqi Wu, Ruiyuan Zhang, and Peiyuan Wang)
• Reflecting on the Limitations of Today's Artificial Intelligence from Information Innovation Systems (Tianqi Wu, Ruiyuan Zhang, and Ruiqi Jin)
• The Nature of Differentiation of New Human Forms and Intelligent Ecosystems (Haisha Zhang)
• The Charm of the Complexity of Innovation of Zhao Zhiqian's Official Script (Li Ziyao)

Readership: Researchers and academics interested in Information, Philosophy of Information, Computation, and Artificial Intelligence.