A NOTE ON INFORMATION, ORDER, STABILITY AND ADAPTABILITY

This brief essay explores some of the subtler ramifications of the not ion of order or information. It starts out by arguing that and why a s ystem's information or order must be one of the central determinants o f its power and productivity, hence of its capacity to survive. Furthe rmore, such information must also underlie a system's stability and ad aptability. And this again leads us to what may well be one of the mai n laws or non-linear relationships underlying the growth of informatio n or order: an increase in a system's information or order is more lik ely as its initial level of order is already higher.