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The resulting insights seem to give reason to regard information and meaning not as qualitatively different entities, but as interrelated forms of order that emerge in the interaction of autonomous (self-referentially closed) agents. Although on first sight, this way of putting information and meaning into a constructivist framework seems to open possibilities to conceive meaning in terms of Shannon-information, it also suggests a re-conceptualization of information in terms of what cybernetics calls Eigenform in order to do justice to its dynamic interrelation with meaning.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/info3030331","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,8,14]],"date-time":"2012-08-14T11:03:17Z","timestamp":1344942197000},"page":"331-343","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["Information, Meaning and Eigenforms: In the Light of Sociology, Agent-Based Modeling and AI"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"3","author":[{"given":"Manfred","family":"F\u00fcllsack","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute for Systems Science, Innovation & Sustainability Research, University of Graz, Graz 8010, Austria"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2012,8,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Shannon, C.E., and Weaver, W. 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