An Informational Approach to Emergence

Abstract Emergence can be described as a relationship between entities at different levels of organization, that looks especially puzzling the transitions major matter, life, cognition and culture. Indeed, each level is dependent on lower one not just for its constituents, but in some more formal way. A passage by François Jacob suggests all such evolutionary are associated with appearance form memory–genetic, neural or linguistic respectively. This implies they have an informational nature. Based this idea, we propose general model systems understood combinations modules taken from limited inventory. Some “semantic” models, reproduce features their environment. Among these, also “informed”, pattern derived memory subsystem. The components informed listed to provide framework knowledge relevance both philosophical ontology applied information services.