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GENERAL INFORMATION THEORY: SOME
MACROSCOPIC DYNAMICS OF THE HUMAN
THINKING SYSTEMS
LIANG THOW-YICK
Department of Decision Sciences, Faculty of Business Administration, National University of
Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260, Republic of Singapore
(Received 1 January 1997," accepted 1 October 1997)
Abstract--This study is an attempt to put in place ponent of the general
information theory that explains the macroscopic dynamics of the human thinking
systems. The fundamental structure of such a theory must include the domains of
external basic entity interactions, external basic entity and information-coded energy
quantum transformations, and energy quantum and information-coded matter
interactions. In this respect, a human thinking system is perceived to have at least a
natural energy-matter subsystem and a human-created physical symbol subsystem.
The artifacts of the human-created subsystem are the external basic physical entities,
namely, data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. The intrinsic and interactive
properties of these entities depict the characteristics of the physical symbol subsystem.
Besides interacting among themselves, the external entities also interact with the
natural entities, the information-coded energy quanta, according to certain rules and
principles. Subsequently, the energy quanta interact with the information-coded
matter structure. Such interactions occurring within the individual subsystems and
between the two subsystems constitute the dynamics of the human thinking systems.
In intelligent systems of this nature information can exist in physical, energy and
matter forms, and the different forms are interconvertible. The interaction