Codepoietic Generation of Meaningful Information in the Evolving Biosphere.
Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) June 24, 2025 Abir U Igamberdiev 3 citations
Meaningful information is reality in potential form; its actualization increases a system's negentropy. Biological evolution expands meaningful information by generating new coding systems (codepoiesis), where evolutionary changes gain functional value through interpretation that yields a meaningful function. Complexification corresponds to generating new meaningful information and developing new structures with functions. Each biological function has meaning within its environmental context, and the evolutionary search for new meanings establishes sustainable non-equilibrium as an attractor, maximizing power through synergistic effects. At higher organizational levels, innovations emerge as niche construction, behavioral choices, and cognition. The growth of meanings is part of an expanding information system formed by organisms, expanding greatly with consciousness, which incorporates the world's image into knowledge acquisition and enables global civilization.