The Concept of Information
There is such a point of view that information is an abstract unit as an invariant of informational processes. Information consists of object, procedural and morphological components.We have an opportunity to consider that information consists of object and procedural components. So we have the relation-functional concept of information.Information has such attributes as syntactics, semantics and pragmatics. These attributes are relational definitions. Semantics and pragmatics are considered to be external features (characteristics) of the definite syntactics.
Information may be considered as an universal property of matter (attributive concept) or as a property of self-managing (cybernetic) system (functional concept).
Then we can not get a full understanding of information, universal and flexible enough. So it is necessary to widen and develop the definition of information.
There are two basic ways of unification of any concept: a) abstracting, b) integration.
The classical theory of information and cybernetics used the first - abstracting. It means the volume ("demanded place") expressed by the quantity of bites. It is a quantity of information.
The semiotics used the second way. It means the sign system (sign), the unity of three attributes - syntactic, semantics and pragmatics.
In this work integration (abstracting) concept of information is offered. For the final description, we said that information is consist of 1) object (attributive), 2) procedural (functional) and 3) morphological (structural) components.
We must offer two definitions for further developing the concept of information.
These are a message and a language. Language is a sign system with alphabet, vocabulary and grammar.
Message is a definite construction in a definite language.
Any language is an interface (means of interaction) between users (communication function) or between users and environment. Exchange of information is possible by plunge into definite surroundings - own language of this message. Any message is a set of signs without such a plunge. So information can not exist in "a pure state", without physical bearer. We also point out that information can exist as messages. Information may be extracted from messages.
Thus we say object component is realized by messages, procedural component is realized by grammar, morphological is realized by material bearers.
We may examine information as a unit with two components: object and procedural. Then we have a relation concept of information. It means a ratio between properties of the object, which consist of tables and charts. The second concept is a set of specific procedures.
We may use a philosophical concept of information.
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