Organisms,machines, and societies: From the vertical structure of adaptability to the management of information |
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| Authors: | Michael Conrad |
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| Institution: | Department of Computer Science , Wayne State University , Detroit, Michigan, 48202, USA E-mail: conrad@cs.wayne.edu |
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| Abstract: | The adaptability of organisms and human societies depends on the synergistic orchestration of processing modes at many different levels of organization, each with unique informational characteristics. Digital information technology is a narrow transect of this spectrum. Adaptability theory provides a tool for analyzing the interactions between these fundamentally different modes of processing and for delineating the factors that can lead to either positive or negative consequences for human life. |
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| Keywords: | adaptability theory information science biological information processing tradeoffs in computing evolution |
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