3. Imagination and creativity
● Processing increased information →
imagination (beyond empirically associations
→ create new conditions in the world
● Symbols that represent ideas are (largely) self
generated
● Creativity and imagination increase level of
uncertainty (new symbols)
● Limited by the properties of the interpretional
infrastructure
● Information about hypotetical futures
4. The origin of life
● Mystery (genetic code... must have originated
together)
● Cannot be understood by determinism
● „therefore, the interpretation or function of any
such semiotic or informal sequence is literally
metaphysical“ (Pattee, 2007)
5. Conclusion
● Concept: Symbols, media, interpretational
infrastructure → self-aware consciousness causes
the „feeling“ of being seperated from matter
● Media for information is matter and energy, symbols
and meaning areseperate
● Creativity is a result of symbolic information
● „the origin of life remains a profund mystery that
becomes more mysterious with increasing
understanding of symbolic information.
● This mystery may indicate that important scientific
principles remain to be discovered“
6. Tranzendental psychology (Kant)
● Logik is the negative test of reality
● Cannot extend insight
● If used in that context logik can misguide
● „such a community of two substances, the
thinking and the expanding one, is founded on
a dualism which confirms the expanding one
as an objekt of reality – even it`s created by
the thinking.“
7. Quantuum Physics
● The terms in the quantuum wave function
symbolize potential outcomes similar to the
human imagination of potential future events.
Both involve symbols of tangible reality. In
both cases, the manifestation of one of the
potential outcomes can be viewed as
information creation
