Information exchange, meaning and redundancy generation in anticipatory systems: self-organization of expectations–the case of Covid-19

International Journal of General Systems. 2022. Vol. 51. No. 7. P. 675–690.

Ivanova I.

The paper focuses on the link between the dynamics of information and system evolution. Information, exchanged between different system’s parts, before being processed is first provided with meaning by the system. Meanings are generated from the perspective of hindsight, i.e. against the arrow of time. The same information can be differently interpreted by different system’s parts (i.e. provided with different meanings) so that the number of options for possible system development is proliferated. Some options eventually turn into observable system states. So that system evolutionary dynamics can be considered as due to information processing within the system. The model under study is Triple Helix (TH) model, conceptualized in the framework of three compartment model used to describe infectious diseases. The paper demonstrates how the dynamics of information and meaning can be incorporated in the description of Covid-19 infection propagation. The results show correspondence of model predictions with observable infection dynamics. © 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

Keywords: model, information, non-linearity, redundancy, COVID-19

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