Big History – The Unfolding of “Information”
Ken Solis
This essay’s central thesis is that information and its “flows” are just as crucial energy flow densities for the realization of increasingly complex systems over course big history. In fact, it requisite interplay between at least these two phenomena make complexity possible. As with any endeavor a philosophical or scientific nature, definitions beginning point building argument. Hence, critical will form an important basis content this essay. If we assert plays essential role flows do systems, then must also propose on more basic physical level to support contention. After all, don’t “spring fully formed from head Zeus like Athena.” Finally, perhaps most importantly, have better intuitive grasp what very least, does. example, physicists still know “energy” fundamentally is, does, e.g., “energy capacity work.”
Journal of big history