title: A note on information, order, stability and adaptability.
abstract: 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.
authors: Volkenrechtelijk Instituut, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.
authors: J K
authors: JK
authors: De Vree
mesh_terms: D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D004777:Environment; D007257:Information Theory