| Abstract |
The paper reappraises our understanding of information without favoring any specific perspective. The paper presents the various conceptualizations of information, including biological information, natural information, pragmatic information, physical information, quantum information, quantified information, relative information, semantic information, semiotic information, epistemic information, ontological information, and syntactic information, together with some of their variants. In the search for a unifying perspective on information, the paper looks at two general theories of information: the General Definition of Information (GDI) and the General Theory of Information (GTI), arguing that the GTI appears to be the better of these two options. The paper is intended to be as complete and comprehensive as possible, sacrificing the analytical part (that may be found in referred sources) for the breadth of coverage.
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