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The fundamental objects of study in information dynamics should be open systems interacting with an environment

Because information flow and increase are relative to subsystems, agents embedded in environments are the proper units of analysis.

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Information, Processes and Games

Abramsky, Samson

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What function does the Internet compute?
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Critical puzzle showing inadequacy of classical function-based computational model for modern distributed, interactive systems without fixed input-output structure.

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