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But if those internal forms of representation are primarily bound to the subject itself, then, consequently, anybody can argue for his or her view of the world as being the \u201cright\u201d one. Well, what is the exit strategy out of this dilemma? It is information; information as understood in its actual and potential dimension, in its identity of structure and meaning. Such an approach requires a deeper elaborated conceptual approach. The goal of this study is to show that such a concept is glued by the strong relationship between seemingly unrelated disciplines: physics, semantics (semiotics\/cognition) and computer science, and even poetry. But the terminus of information is nowadays discussed and elaborated in all those disciplines. Hence, there is no shortcut, no way around. The aim of this study is not even to show that those strong relationships exist. We will see within the same horizon that, based on such a concept, new kinds of computing systems are becoming possible. Nowadays energy consumption is becoming a major issue regarding computing systems. We will work towards an approach, which enables new devices consuming a minimum amount of energy and maximizing the performance at the same time. And within the same horizon it becomes possible to release the saved energy towards a new ethical spirit\u2014towards the information society.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/info3030504","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2012,9,24]],"date-time":"2012-09-24T18:12:10Z","timestamp":1348510330000},"page":"504-545","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":3,"title":["The Causal-Compositional Concept of Information\u2014Part II: Information through Fairness: How Does the Relationship between Information, Fairness and Language Evolve, Stimulate the Development of (New) Computing Devices and Help to Move towards the Information Society"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"3","author":[{"given":"Gerhard","family":"Luhn","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Faculty of Computer Science, Technical University of Dresden, Dresden 01062, Germany"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2012,9,24]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"103","article-title":"Wu Kun and the metaphilosophy of information","volume":"18","author":"Brenner","year":"2011","journal-title":"Int. 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