Theoretical information studies : information in the world A multiscale taxonomy of information in the world Mark Burgin and Gordana Dodig Crnkovic Regeneration of information as forced expansion Meir Buzaglo Why entropy is not enough Good emerges from the relaxation between order and disorder Wu Kun and Jian Wang Qualitative stance effective procedures and common sense computation Gianmarco Tuccini Roberta Lanfredini and Luca Baronti A theory of semantic information Yixin Zhong and Gordana Dodig Crnkovic The no information at a distance principle and local mathematics : some effects on physics and geometry Paul Benioff The structure of the world unity of nature and the problem of time Rafael Capurro and Mark Burgin The debt of natural science Rafael Capuro The molecular linguistics of DNA Sungchul Ji The biology of information Robert K. Logan Towards a new information thinking biologically inspired Jorge Navarro and Pedro Marijuan Towards the design of signaling networks devices Walter Riofrío Evolution of genetic information without error replication Guenther Witzany Information processing by structural machines Mark Burgin Consciousness and information before or after the event Ron Cottam Convergence of natural and artificial intelligence Rao Mikkilineni A comparative analysis of traditional Western and Chinese music from the perspective of complex information system theory Gengxian Cao Donghe Li A model of complexity for the legal domain Cornelis N.J. de Vey Mestdagh Reform and innovation : the social sciences research in big data time Ouyang Kang The differentia specifica of interhuman communication : a sociological reflection on information theory Loet Leydesdorff Li Erqus theory on epistemology and gong fu ontology Jun Liu Law as information and the impact of information technologies Ugo Pagallo Information and openness Tomás Sigmund. This is the first attempt to delineate the synthetic field of the theoretical study of information treating information as the basic phenomenon on the fundamental level of the world encompassing nature technology individuals and society. The exploration of information is explored within Info computational approaches to natural and social phenomena such as Bioinformatics Information Physics Informational Chemistry Computational Physics Cognitive and Social sciences with special emphasis on inter disciplinary cross disciplinary and trans disciplinary knowledge. The book presents results of collaboration across research fields within info computational and info structural frameworks in attempt to better theoretically and conceptually capture the phenomena of information and its dynamics (such as computation and communication) as they appear on different levels of organization on different scales and in different contexts