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Preface <= reading sample
Part 1: – Biophysics of Curiosity
1 The Avalanche of Information Technology
2 The Avalanche of Written Information
3 Price Question: What is "Information"?
3.1 Babylonian Confusion of Terms
3.2 Remarks on Wiener's Definition
3.3 Information Terms
4 Entropy and Information
4.1 The Entropy of Heat
4.2 The Universal Character of Entropy
4.3 Negative Entropy and Information
4.4 Self-Organising Structures
5 Information and Life
5.1 The Steady-State Equilibria of Biology
5.2 Information - Typical for Living Beings
5.3 Artificial and Natural Intelligence
Part 2: Metabrains
6 Information and Society
6.1 From the Single Brain to the Metabrain
6.2 The Splendour and Misery of the Intellectual Division of Labour
6.3 An Example
6.4 The Limits of the Metabrains
6.5 Animal Metabrains
6.6 Expanding Human Division of Labour
6.7 The Electrification of Communications
7 Entropy and Society
7.1 Entropy Increase as a Social Inhibiting Force
7.2 Entropy, Being and Worry
7.3 The Drives of Information Technology Development
7.4 Disadvantages and Dangers of Information Technology
7.5 Disadvantages and Dangers without Information Technology
8 Outlook
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