, Skip to content Skip to content Home About Books Events Archive Secret No More : Google and Power Una Macchina Automatica Defining Information , Even More Posted on 2 October 2011 by gleick Here is a scholarly paper that caught my eye . It appears in the latest issue of the journal Information the title is âNaturalizing Informationâ the author is Stanley N . Salthe , a professor emeritus of biology from Brooklyn College . It attempts to create a better-than-ever , all-purpose definition of âinformation.â A meta-definition , perhaps I should say . Let me just quote the opening : sentences In this paper I forge a naturalistic , or naturalized , concept of information , by relating it to energy dissipative structures . This gives the concept a definable physical and material ., Skip to content Skip to content Home About Books Events Archive Secret No More : Google and Power Una Macchina Automatica Defining Information , Even More Posted on 2 October 2011 by gleick Here is a scholarly paper that caught my eye . It appears in the latest issue of the journal Information the title is âNaturalizing Informationâ the author is Stanley N . Salthe , a professor emeritus of biology from Brooklyn College . It attempts to create a better-than-ever , all-purpose definition of âinformation.â A meta-definition , perhaps I should say . Let me just quote the opening : sentences In this paper I forge a naturalistic , or naturalized , concept of information , by relating it to energy dissipative structures . This gives the concept a definable physical and material .