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Feedback Loops: A Fundamental Ingredient of Information Processing

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Quantum Interaction (QI 2014)

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In order to acquire meaning, information has to be processed. But how do we define meaning and what does processing consist of? Examples show that information processing involves feedback, and that this is a fundamental driver of change. Change is the physical quality of information, whereas meaning comes from observer-participancy. Furthermore, change can come about by the processing of potential information, whose realization reflects quantum behaviour at a macroscopic level.

Paul Baird: The author would like to thank the three referees whose input has significantly improved this paper, as well as Thomas Filk for useful conversations and Kirsty Kitto for pointing out the importance of semantic information.

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  2. Universitätsspital Bern, Bern, Switzerland

    Claudia Bergomi

  3. University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Thomas Filk

  4. Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

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Baird, P. (2015). Feedback Loops: A Fundamental Ingredient of Information Processing. In: Atmanspacher, H., Bergomi, C., Filk, T., Kitto, K. (eds) Quantum Interaction. QI 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8951. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15931-7_3

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