Feedback loops: a fundamental ingredient of information processing
Abstract
In order to acquire meaning, information has to be processed. But how do we define meaning and what does processing consist of? Examples show that information processing involves feedback, and that this is a fundamental driver of change. Change is the physical quality of information, whereas meaning comes from observer-participancy. Furthermore, change can come about by the processing of potential information, whose realization reflects quantum behaviour at a macroscopic level.