So, as an older work, I will take advantage and instead of reading it, narrow down to works reflecting my focus, which will be the area of shannon communication theory along with church and turing and how it relates to consciousness. This steps away from bacteria but hones in on possible successes and flaws of this area of information theory:
Narrowing with terms
shannon turing church communication consciousness
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6 results. Will explore:
a) Dynamics of information as natural computation by G Dodig Crnkovic with 47 citations https://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/2/3/460/pdf
b) I’ll have to look at the works of Luciano Floridi, who seems to appear a lot as a heavily cited writer in this field – although many seem to be self-citations
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jZdTOaoAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra
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“Van Benthem and Adriaans define several dynamic information stances:
the logical stance (dynamics of information update),
the Shannon view (dynamics of information communication/transmission),
and the Kolmogorov view (dynamics of encoding and decoding).
Processes considered representing information dynamics are:
questions and answers (Kamp and Stokhof),
observations (Baltag, van Ditmarsch and Moss),
communication (Devlin and Rozenberg),
learning (Adriaans, Kelly),
belief revision (Rott),
inference (van Benthem and Martinez),
game-theoretic interactions (Walliser) and
computation (Abramsky)”
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