Information from Theory towards Science

Information from Theory towards Science, the professor Stefan Vlăduţescu’s book from University of Craiova, is a confirmation of high intelligence level and propensity of author’s cognition. From various semiotic materials (words, images, gestures, drawings, etc.), following certain principles, under different procedures (operations, actions, movements, maneuvers, mechanisms, strategies) using means (languages, codes, subcodes) and specific tools (knowledge, concepts, categories) adapted aim between earth (with autocorrection by feedback) and firmament (as anticipation by feed-forward) rises an imposing edifice, a cognitive construction: this is information. It has systemic and procedural character and is organized on four coordinates: metric, semantic, structural and pragmatic.

and consistency. Information from Theory towards Science, is a study through which professor Vlăduţescu demonstrates the force and the role of information in communication science.
"The overwhelming majority of research on a topic is done in absence of any consciousness of completeness of the reading and subject capitalization reference. An important part of what remains explicitly rejects the completeness according to the idea of satiety and of their enough brought by proper zetetic engagement, explorative. Remains that, in an era in which a theme in written increasingly longer, one who reads addresses on time without thought of remorse, only an alleged enough" concludes professor Vlăduţescu. We have to mention that professor Vlăduţescu, most of subjects of this book, has renewed in articles or in books, updated by his researches, with the newest information and own visions on items.

INFORMATION, ENERGY, MATTER, CONCEPT
Nothing is more useful and practical than a good theory. Professor Vlăduţescu defines the necessity and importance of a concept along the time. The basis of such reasoning, permanently installed as true in our century put it in the history of Plato's ideas through the voice of Socrates, which can be even Socrates, states: "People called us to discuss on the mean to make their children better, planting the virtue in their soul. In this case, does not have we to have first the notion of what is the virtue? "(Plato, Lahes 190b). Virtue cannot be taught or learned, whether there is not before realized the concept of "virtue". Similarly, you cannot find information in the absence of a concept of "information". Cognition without concept is inexorably subject to error. The idea is found in Immanuel Kant: "All cognition requires a concept, however uncertain" (Kant, 1994, p. 141), as in Hegel: "Anything is not reality made by the concept itself, is existing in fact, transient, an external contingency, opinion, deception. (...) In cognition, the need for a concept is the main thing" (Hegel, 1996, p. 21 and p. 23). The concept of naive representation is inconsistent, that of the scientific representation is productive and offensive. Regarding the essence and place of information in the world system, things were not always clear, and in part they have not come to be fully clarified and rationally not proven even today. Something has remained stable and undisputed since the first steps in domain where we are: the information exist, is an event of Gnosis practice without any doubt. In connection with the inevitability of information, concern to the limit of philosophy, were formulated, from the strengthen of the concept in the first part of the twentieth century, two theories: gnoseological and ontological. Ontological Theory focuses on the idea that information is an imanent quality of the matter, which information subject notifies it, discovers and expresses it or anticipates it, imagines it and formulates it. Gnoseological Theory qualifies information as secondary related to conscious and, as a phenomenon, related to the subject. It is not an objective attribute of matter, but a relation between subjects, mediated by a material carrier. Information, phenomenon proper human, attribute of matter or feature of the objects, is a totally subjective cognitive activity. Although communication and information are inseparable in their relationship, shows the author, first is determinative, it conditions the second and has precedence both ontogenetic and filogenetic. Thinking and communication were formed and evolved together. The information is on one side of his cognition, conceptual gnoseological organization of the and communication product. The information is continually, communication is performed. Producer is a production on going to the product, where it will never arrive if it is wanted to remain information. If communication, the axioms help information construction but they are not enough. For the latter are necessary "sentence" structure, organization principles of noetic matter, of meanings.
Information themselves have structural parameters that give them relevance: unity, novelty, semantic coherence and cohesion, closure related to the base of knowledge and openness in relation to the universe of knowledge, semiotic articulation, primer of interpretation and trace of construction principles action. Information is not matter and not energy. It is itself a separate entity unique, fundamental and indestructible. A Latin principle tells us that the affirmation precedes negation. For information, however, is more profitable to begin to delimit it by the negation. Information is neither object nor naked pressure. It is a Gnosis event, an order placement in disorder, in the chaos of the world, a representation of variability and indeterminacy. Information appears as a complex construction. Its ascension process is the result of elements interaction that constitutes the production system or consumption, modeled by a structure of finalities. Objective cannot raises without application of know-how and certain production and consumption laws. By analogy with the dictum "there is nothing in the intellect, if there was not first in the senses", generally, we can say that is nothing in conscious, intentional and gnoseological to humans if there earlier are not concepts through which to exist. As principles are mentioned by the author: principle of impossibility to not inform yourself, principle of meaning, principle of object variability and informational signal, principle of informational selectivity, principle of information loose, principle of conformity benefit.

INFORMATION COORDINATES
Information conceiving as building creates a spatial-mechanical perspective quadruple coordinated: metric, structural, semantic and pragmatic. The first of coordinate is quantitative, the other three -qualitative. They appear as autonomous relationship. Quantity is the category that designs experimental determinations by number, grade, size, stretching etc. Quantitative determinations can be known by measurement and calculation. Quantity is, within certain limits, the inextricable relation with the quality of quantitative determinations. It expresses the synthesis of aspects and the fundamental features of objects, phenomena and processes. Quality changes means radical transformation of the object. Quality is proper to an object or phenomenon. Any object or phenomenon involves a unity of qualitative and quantitative measurements. A key measure of information is entropy, which is usually expressed by the average number of bits needed to store or communicate one symbol in a message. Entropy quantifies the uncertainty involved in predicting the value of a random variable, it measure the disorder of an informational system. Quality is constituted as a heuristic synthesis of significance, relevance and usefulness. Simplified, quality = "significance of element within the system" x "its relevance in relation to consumer knowledge base" x "utility in achieving the goal though which in the terms of informational grid was given relevance". Quality is a product of factors rather than a summation of terms. For quality, novelty is mandatory, but the size, its amplitude -by no means decisive. Quality is based on quantity, cannot exist without it, and the reverse is perfectly valid: no novelty without any quality. It could be defined as

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functionally indestructible. The quantity of information and quality of information underlie theoretically the value. Their coordinated assumption is that ontological information already exists when it raises the question of quantity and quality.

CONCLUSIONS
Through a rigorous conceptualization of the object domain of information, by creating a production information device and shaping of a informational consumer device (called grid), by the foundation of a method (as "procedure by laws", as says Im. Kant) formed of operations, actions, tactics (moves and maneuvers) strategies and mechanisms from a simple theory as a natural evolution, can be made the step to an information science. "Even though our approach did not entirely to achieve the great passage, undoubtedly the allocated energy and effort put generated, in part necessary combustion, that triggered fission that carefully monitored and by later sustained contributions supported to lead to the transformation of information theory in science" sustains professor Vlăduţescu. After reading the professor Vlăduţescu's book, Information from Theory towards Science, it can be asserted the Talleyrand's statement: "Fear of first impression, it is the best".