论信息的随附性特征

On the Supervenience of Information

信息的基本特点是必须依赖于载体而存在,这种依赖性在本体论意义上是随附于载体上,其基本理由有三点:第一,两个物理载体的属性如果存在着物理意义上的不可分辨性,那么载体之上随附的信息也是不可分辨的;第二,信息与载体之间具有典型的不对称性;第三,从不可分辨性和不对称性中我们可以进一步得到信息具有多重实现现象。信息随附性特征的哲学意义在于揭示了,信息在本体论意义上是一种随附性存在,在认识论意义上它是随附于科学。

This paper discusses the supervenient problems of information, which must be dependent on the carriers. It claims that informationin the ontological sense is supervenienton the carriers, because of three basic reasons. First, if two physical properties of the carriers is indiscernibility in physical sense,then information that is dependent on the carriers is indiscernible. Second, there is asymmetry between information and carrier. Third, information has multiple realizations. The philosophic signification of the supervenient properties of information is that information is the supervenient reality in the ontological sense, and supervenient on science in the epistemological sense.