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Unpublished until now, this essay was written in 1969. It takes up the ancient concept of form, in order to interpret the contemporary concept of information and to develop a unified concept encompassing both biology, as understood cybernetically, and physics, as the theory of decidable alternatives
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Cf. von Weizsäcker (1980).
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Cf. Kant’s ‘First Analogy of Experience’ and the Conservation Principles of Physics, in Weizsäcker (1980), chap. iii, 5.
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Cf. “Quantum Theory” in this volume, part 7.3: Tense Logic.
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I leave aside the trivial answer, $1 = 8 bits, which follows from the fact that a coin that existed in the early 19th century was worth one-eighth of a dollar and was called a bit.
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Cf. “Models…” (Drieschner 2014), paragraph c. ‘Progress’.
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Cf. “Quantum Theory”, Sect. 7.5 in this volume: “The Unity of Physics, Part Two”.
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Drieschner, M. (ed.), 2014: Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts in Philosophy, SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice 23 (Cham etc.: Springer 2014)
von Weizsäcker, C. F., 1980: The Unity of Nature (New York: Farrar-Strauss-Giroux); Translated by Francis J. Zucker into English from: Die Einheit der Natur (Munich: Hanser, 1971)
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von Weizsäcker, C.F. (2014). Matter, Energy, Information. In: Drieschner, M. (eds) Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker: Major Texts in Physics. SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice(), vol 22. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03668-7_11
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