The Progress of the Research on Life Information Science
Yongchuan Zhang · Ziran bianzhengfa yanjiu · 2004
The purpose of this paper is to introduce some achievements of the research on life information science, e.g., the duality theory of informational existence and motion, the evolution of life information, the four-dimension model of universal information, etc., and put forward a pattern to understand life based on the above accomplishments without any violation of the second law of thermodynamics. The authors transplant the principle of material entropy increase to the field of information science, extend the meaning of Schrodinger's eating negentropy in material metabolism to mean learning negentropy in informational metabolism, and then describe that two types of entropy lead to death and degeneration and two types of negentropy lead to reproduction and evolution. The competition of the two trends, i.e., increase and decrease of material and informational entropy, perform the plays of colorful life phenomena.