Integration of thermodynamic, quantum and hierarchical theories of information in the context of Peircean semiosis--a review.

Abstract

I claim that Peirce's notion of information and sign iteration as an intermediation between potentialities that are actualized and actualities that are potentiated provides a suitable framework for interpretation of Zurek' Information gathering and using systems (IGUS). Moreover, this model can be extended to address the problem of quantum measurement (QM) since it allows exploring an alternative view based on IGUS understood as agents of internal measurement, beyond Copenhagen interpretation (CI) that invokes a classical observer that performs measurements and the "many worlds interpretation" (MWI) that rejects all sort of observers and measurements. This integrative view allows figuring out a hierarchy of IGUS-like systems of interpretation that explore new possibilities in the upper level analog boundary and consolidate actualized information in the lower level digital boundary.