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Among the set of open questions in philosophy of information posed by Floridi [5,6] is the question of “What Is the Dynamics of Information?” For recent discussion see Crnkovic and Hofkirchner [2]) and a complimentary summary of open questions in the interconnection of philosophy of information and computation (Adriaans [1]). The broad definition of “dynamics of information” includes the concept of “information processing.” This article concentrates on that concept, redefines it as “info-metrics,” and discusses some open questions within info-metrics.
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Golan, A. (2012). On the Foundations and Philosophy of Info-metrics. In: Cooper, S.B., Dawar, A., Löwe, B. (eds) How the World Computes. CiE 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7318. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30870-3_24
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