Information Flow and the Nature of Reality

On the concept of Information and Meaning, with regard to David Bohm's conceptual understanding of meaning and (implicate) order, he believes similarly that in the beginning there was meaning. Meaning is being given a key role in the whole of existence and is seen to be capable of being organized and ordered into different possible patterns and forms.

Along with different forms of meaning which could imply, contain and enfold each other, information also appears as a new notion. Information and information processing are attributes of different possibilities when some forms of meaning are abstracted. For example, the printed marks on a piece of paper (as definite signals with distinct forms) carry information which can be apprehended by a reader. This information has a clear significance (i.e., a clear form of meaning). Or, in a television set, the movement of electrical signals communicated to an electron beam carries information to a viewer. These signals signify forms of meaning. In all these examples, information is carried by some physical or chemical signals which in turn enfold significance and meaning. The enfolded meaning is then unfolded by other information processing. For example, consider light waves that contain information about a room and enfold the significance of each region of that room. This enfolded significance is then unfolded to other forms of meaning (as sign and intention) by the lens of our eye and later by our brain in a very complex information processing. In our group, we focus on the very meaning of information and its relation with semantic and meaning-based approaches according to the concept of . Other approaches such as the pragmatic or pure physical treatments are critically scrutinized. According to a meaning-based approach to the concept of information, we are going to reinterpret controversial issues in Quantum Mechanics and Thermodynamics. We hope this can shed new light on the way one observes and elucidate the phenomena in nature.