A note on information, order, stability and adaptability.
This brief essay explores some of the subtler ramifications of the notion of order or information. It starts out by arguing that and why a system's information or order must be one of the central determinants of its power and productivity, hence of its capacity to survive. Furthermore, such information must also underlie a system's stability and adaptability. And this again leads us to what may well be one of the main laws or non-linear relationships underlying the growth of information or order: an increase in a system's information or order is more likely as its initial level of order is already higher.
De Vree
J K
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Volkenrechtelijk Instituut, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D004777:Environment; D007257:Information Theory