The relationship between evolution and information

ŠMAJS, Josef. The relationship between evolution and information. Human Affairs. Bratislava: Slovak Academy of Science, 2002, vol. 12, No 1, p. 5-25, 26 pp. ISSN 1210-3055.

Basic information

• Original name: The relationship between evolution and information
• Authors: ŠMAJS, Josef (203 Czech Republic, guarantor).
• Edition: Human Affairs, Bratislava, Slovak Academy of Science, 2002, 1210-3055.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 60300 6.3 Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/02:00007777
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Keywords in English: information; order; memory; natural evolution; cultural evolution
• Tags: cultural evolution, information, memory, natural evolution, order

Abstract

For most of us, fhe Word evolution in associated with the name Charles Darwin. In this study, the concept of evolution will be employed in a much broader sense than in that of Darwin. Evolution will be understood not only as a spontaneous constitutive actvity of the "big bang", which shapes fhe uneverse including the Earth, but also as human activity creating culture. Schematically speaking, evolution will be understood as natural and cultural "construology", which produces forms, order, memory and informationen. Since the cultural system is only formed by the reconstructionof older, naturally created structures of the planet Earth, it is evident that cultural evolution does not fit in the framework of natural evolution.

Links

• GA401/99/1609, research and development project: Name: Ontologie na konci 20. století

Investor: Czech Science Foundation, Ontology at the end of 20th Century