Information and Information Interactions

Abstract

The role and forms of information existence in physical and communication environments are analyzed. It is determined that information is an entity of the second order of complexity, assuming a non–atomic mode of existence, which takes shape in the processes of interaction and which can arise and disappear. By analogy with quantum mechanics, information can be represented as a superposition of possible semantic states of an information object. Information in the processes of storage and transmission exhibits the properties of a macro object, and, in the processes of information interaction with other information objects it exhibits wave properties. Information interaction is a stochastic process involving a physical source/receiver and transmission channels, the form of a message for its transmission and subsequent semantic interpretation in accordance with the domain, and means to determine the pragmatic value, as a result of which not only does the semantic state of the receiver change, but also an information object can also arise as a communicative form of presentation of information. Information interactions are essentially physical interactions that, in addition to the actual pair of interacting objects (including in the form of images), involve circumstances, such as laws and patterns, previous states, concomitant factors, established knowledge, and so on, which are “induced” by input information in the receiver environment.