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Symmetry Physics and Information Theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2024

Ernest H. Hutten
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There are three main issues I wish to discuss here. First, I want to point out the changing pattern of scientific explanation in physics. Briefly speaking, the model of Nature underlying the explanatory schemes has become more realistic. Communication is substituted for causality, or information flow for the simple energy flow described by the equation of motion. The second point I want to make is to explain modern symmetry physics in terms of information theory. Finally, last and not least, my third issue is to show how this new conception of scientific method can help us to understand the human (or life or social) sciences.

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Research Article
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Diogenes , Volume 18 , Issue 72 , December 1970 , pp. 1 - 21
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Copyright © 1970 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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