title: Knowledge.
abstract: We investigate the basic principles of structural knowledge. Structural knowledge underlies cognition, and it organizes, selects and assigns meaning to information. It is the result of evolutionary, cultural and developmental processes. Because of its own constraints, it needs to discover and exploit regularities and thereby achieve a complexity reduction.
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck-Institut fur Mathematik in den Naturwissenschaften, Leipzig, Germany. jjost@mis.mpg.de.|Santa Fe Institute for the Sciences of Complexity, Santa Fe, USA. jjost@mis.mpg.de.
authors.forename: Jürgen
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5258-6590
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jost
mesh_terms: D005075:Biological Evolution; D003071:Cognition; D049690:History, Ancient; D006801:Humans; D019359:Knowledge; D007858:Learning; D008128:Logic; D000069550:Machine Learning; D008490:Medical Informatics; D008954:Models, Biological; D009415:Nerve Net; D010684:Philosophy
keywords: Gestalt; Information; Knowledge; Representation; Self-reference; Structural knowledge