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The Chinese philosophy of information innovatively provides a philosophical definition of the concepts of subject and object from the dimension of information activity, while also making specific provisions for the cognitive activities of the subject. The subject\u2019s psychology and cognition are an activity of advanced grasping and creation of information. The subject\u2019s information activities have five basic levels. Arranged from lower to higher, they are: the subject\u2019s in-itself information activities, the subject\u2019s intuitive discernment of information, the subject\u2019s memory storage of information, the subject\u2019s subjective creation of information, and the subject\u2019s practice and social realization of information. Higher-level information activities must arise on the basis of lower-level ones. 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