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Abstract
1.1. Background•
Information in its broadest sense is defined as ”the
name for the content of what is exchanged with the outer
world as we adjust to it, and make our adjustment felt upon
i t. ” [ 204J. In that sense, every living system must have a
type of information processing if it is to survive. This is
true for living cells as well as for human societies. As a
”ceteris paribus”* assumption, Miller C116J relates
survivability of a system to its committing a high
percentage of its resources to information processing.
’’Up to a maximum higher than yet obtained in any
living system but less than 100 percent, the larger
the percentage of all matter-energy input that it
consumes in information processing controlling its
various system processes, as opposed to
matter-energy processing, the more likely the system
is to survive. 11
Best and Marschak C13J noticed that more complex species
<those higher in the evolutionary scale) devote a higher
percentage of their tot,11 cell mass to in·formation
processing than do lower species <the brains of foraging
predators are larger than those of sedentary animals in
comparison with the rest of their bodies). It is also well
established that in an advanced society a great portion of
the labor force is involved in activities related to
information, and a higher percentage of the cost running the
economy consists of information related cost C146J.
* Other things being equal C130J.
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