Emergent information. Towards a unified information theoryP.FleissnerauthorW.HofkirchnerauthorThis paper proposes the restoration of information theory by means of a philosophy of evolutionary systems. What this philosophy implies for the conception of information may be called a multi-stage model, comprising both the history and the ordering of information processing by real-world systems. Such a unifying information concept may assist suitable research in the coming field of information science1996Article