%0 Journal Article
%T Sciences of Observation
%A Chris Fields
%J -
%D 2018
%R https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies3040029
%X Abstract Multiple sciences have converged, in the past two decades, on a hitherto mostly unremarked question: what is observation? Here, I examine this evolution, focusing on three sciences: physics, especially quantum information theory, developmental biology, especially its molecular and ˇ°evo-devoˇ± branches, and cognitive science, especially perceptual psychology and robotics. I trace the history of this question to the late 19th century, and through the conceptual revolutions of the 20th century. I show how the increasing interdisciplinary focus on the process of extracting information from an environment provides an opportunity for conceptual unification, and sketch an outline of what such a unification might look like. View Full-Tex
%K awareness
%K cognition
%K computation
%K cybernetics
%K differentiation
%K fitness
%K holographic encoding
%K memory
%K perception
%K quantum information
%K signal transduction
%K spatial representation
%K thermodynamics
%K unitarity
%U https://www.mdpi.com/2409-9287/3/4/29