Plural Treatments of a Definition of Information

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The title of the paper is [Plural Treatments of a Definition of Information]. A concept is defined usually on such a proposition that does not include this concept. In this connection, the plural treatment of a definition of a concept is proposed with its application to a way in which information is defined. Every piece of information is expressed as many kinds of states of a medium in an information process consisting of the system of output, memory, transfer and transformation. The varied systems have a common character, that is, transformation of a specific piece of information. The author calls each system in an information process "transformation-ware", connecting the short word "ware" to "transformation". He considers that information phenomena are extended to a new region, that is, the bio and social world. As a result, transformation-ware is not always difficult to grasp as the case of an instrument in communication. The following two points are shown as the new results. Firstly there exists generally an information phenomenon in which transformation-ware is changed by the information in the medium. The phenomena are called a "conditional change in transformation-ware" in this paper. Secondly, only the plural treatment of a specific piece of information succeeds in treating a conditional change in transformation-ware.