The Nature Of The Information

With the advent of the information age, the word "information" has become one of the most common vocabulary we use.Information areas as the concept of the scientific field and the communication technology field, has long been popular.With the foundation of the information theory by Shannon,the quantitative research of information has been widely accepted and used.However,the level of the communication science is only one aspect of the information,the nature research is still in progress,while the issue what is the information has not been a universally accepted answer.Wiener's information is not material norenergy,while it is the information,which is an attempt to stifle almost all other infotmation definition.With the rise of the philosophy of information in1950s,the research on the definition of information is more and more in depth at home and abroad.However,different pepole have different interpretations about the nature of the information,and each explation has its own loyal supports,such information is a relation,a field,a state,an attribute,and so on.The purpose of this paper is to explore the nature of the information.The nature of the information is including the production of information,the purpose of information generation,the information transmission and the definition of information.Information contains material to send a message and subject to discovery information;Wiener,the father of Cybernetika,putforwads that the reason of the information procution is control information;information transmission is analyzed in the framework of the communication system;the definition of information is the nature of information,which contains analysis of the philosophical nature of the information.Firstly,this paper, based on information theory, explains the information by the related discipline. Secondly,it analysis information relevant characteristic including language,report,image,string,etc.What's more,it studys the philosophy nature incuding humanity,non-material and existence.Finally,the paper get the nature of information by comparsion the first category and the second category of information,which is another mapping of the existence of the information and the object is relative to the change of subject.