Designing New Forms of Digital Autopoietic Machines

Abstract

The general theory of information (GTI) tells us that information is represented, processed and communicated using physical structures. The physical universe is made up of structures combining matter and energy. According to GTI, “information is related to knowledge as energy is related to matter.” GTI also provides tools to deal with transformation of information and knowledge. We present here the application of these tools for the design of digital autopoietic machines with higher efficiency, resiliency and scalability than the information processing systems based on the Turing machines. We discuss the utilization of these machines for building autopoietic and cognitive applications in a multi-cloud infrastructure.

Keywords

• general theory of information
• named set
• knowledge structure
• structural machine
• autopoietic machine
• multi-cloud infrastructure