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Framework treating phenomena as information flows and exchanges; adopted by Friedman and others to model design as informational process.
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- Christopher Alexanderstudies
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- Artificial Lifeassociated_withComputational modeling approach studying living/cognitive systems; used to test hypotheses about self-illusion effects without direct intervention.
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- Information Theory and Actionrelated_toChapter 6 explores whether information-theoretic models (Dretske) can ground action causation; concludes they cannot dissolve equivocation problem.
- FlatwriterimplementsFriedman's participatory design system using combinatorial operations and planar graphs to enable users to develop custom spatial solutions with real-time feedback.
- Yona FriedmanstudiesHungarian-French architect who used information theory and cybernetics to propose participatory design through the Flatwriter system.
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- Formal framework by Krakauer et al. (2020) for defining an individual based on information theory.
- Information theory offers a language to characterize such entities and synergies between them.claim0.846Claim that information-theoretic measures are suitable to model self and agency.
- Tononi et al. framework quantifying consciousness via integration; provides mathematical tools for measuring agent complexity.
- The field providing the result that no finite system can measure entanglement entropy across its own boundary.
- Formal mathematical framework (Bialek, Tononi, etc.) proposed to characterize autonomous agents and synergies between them.
- Proposed theoretical framework combining qualitative and quantitative aspects of information, with explicit treatment of processes and information flow; central organizing concept for the paper.