Abstract: The actual development of our civilization on Earth in the last century has seen an explosive growth of meaningful production, manipulation and use of information. Unfortunately, we still rely on an intuitive notion of this phenomenon, and even some of the leading experts avoid giving a precise definition of this development. What is more important - the explosive increase of the capacity to exchange signals over the past two decades has brought an overall reduction of the information in the communication flow, rather than its integral growth, and its allegorical approximation is closer to the level of relict infrared radiation of the Universe, rather than a typical star’s optic or UHF emission. The other side of the coin is the exponentially growing complexity and linked with it impracticability of relevant functions which make use of such information. The paper describes an approach for effective framing of the so called semantic-pragmatic information and a relatively simple formal structural model of a subject which uses such information, as a set of properties of this paradigm, concerning the boundaries of possible information consumption in real natural or artificial systems in the Universe. As formulated, these properties govern: - The limitations on the amount of information and information exchange in real subjects / systems; - The conditions for converting Information into Noise and vice versa; - The principles of growth of proper pragmatic information in a natural subject /system during its physical existence/”life”; - Asymptotical reduction of communicated information among so called "Teleological" or "Autopoietic" (i.e. self-expandable, self-steering and self-developing) systems during their post-mature evolution. Some interesting consequences of the identified properties are outlined, that can have a great social relevance both now and in the near future.

Keywords: Semantic Information Theory, Framework, General System Theory Class, Instance Definition.

ACM Classification Keywords: H.1.1 Systems and Information Theory, Value of information

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FORMAL THEORY OF SEMANTIC AND PRAGMATIC INFORMATION - A TECHNOCRATIC APPROACH

Venco Bojilov

http://www.foibg.com/ijita/vol22/ijita22-04-p05.pdf