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Index
Preface
Preface to the English Edition
1 Preliminary Remarks about the Concept of Information
Part 1: Laws of Nature
2 Principles of Laws of Nature
2.1 The Terminology Used in the Natural
2.2 The Limits of Science and the Persistence of Paradigms
2.3 The Nature of Physical Laws
2.4 The Relevance of the Laws of Nature
2.5 The Classification of the Laws of Nature
2.6 Possible and Impossible Events
Part 2: Information
3 Information Is a Fundamental Entity
3.1 Information: A Fundamental Quantity
3.2 Information: A Material or a Mental Quantity?
3.3 Information: Not a Property of Matter!
4 The Five Levels of the Information Concept
4.1 The Lowest Level of Information: Statistics
4.2 The Second Level of Information: Syntax
4.3 The Third Level of Information: Semantics
4.4 The Fourth Level of Information: Pragmatics
4.5 The Fifth Level of Information: Apobetics
5 Delineation of the Information Concept
6 Information in Living Organisms
6.1 Necessary Conditions for Life
6.2 The Genetic Code
6.3 The Origin of Biological Information
6.4 Materialistic Representations and Models of the Origin of Biological Information
6.5 Scientists against Evolution
7 The Three Forms in which Information Appears
8 Three Kinds of Transmitted Information
9 The Quality and Usefulness of Information
10 Some Quantitative Evaluations of Semantics
11 Questions Often Asked about the Information
Part 3: Application of the Concept of Information to the Bible
12 Life Requires a Source of Information
13 The Quality and Usefulness of Biblical Information
14 Aspects of Information as Found in the Bible
14.1 God as Sender — Man as Recipient
14.2 Man as Sender — God as Recipient
14.3 The Highest Packing Density of Information
15 The Quantities Used for Evaluating Information and Their Application to the Bible
16 A Biblical Analogy of the Four Fundamental Entities — Mass, Energy, Information, and Will
Appendix
A1 The Statistical View of Information
A1.1 Shannon’s Theory of Information
A1.2 Mathematical Description of Statistical Information
A1.2.1 The Bit: Statistical Unit of Information
A1.2.2 The Information Spiral
A1.2.3 The Highest Packing Density of Information
A1.3 Evaluation of Communication Systems
A1.4 Statistical Analysis of Language
A1.5 Statistical Synthesis of Language
A2 Language: The Medium for Creating, Communicating, and Storing Information
A2.1 Natural Languages
A2.1.1 General Remarks on the Structure of Human Language
A2.1.2 Complexity and Peculiarities of Languages
A2.1.3 The Origin of Languages
A2.1.4 Written Languages
A2.2 Special Languages Used in the Animal World
A2.3 Does "Artificial Intelligence" Exist?
A3 Energy
A3.1 Energy, a Fundamental Quantity
A3.2 Strategies for Maximizing the Utilization of Energy
A3.2.1 Utilization of Energy in Technological Systems
A3.2.2 Utilization of Energy in Biological Systems (Photosynthesis)
A3.3 The Consumption of Energy in Biological Systems: Strategies for Minimization
A3.4 Conservation of Energy in Biological Systems
A3.4.1 Animal "Chlorophyll"
A3.4.2 Animals with "Lamps"
A3.4.3 The Lung, an Optimal Structure
A3.4.4 The Flight of Migratory Birds
A3.4.4.1 The Flight of Migrating Birds: An Accurate Energy Calculation
A3.4.4.2 The Flight of Migrating Birds: A Navigational Masterpiece
References
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