Towards an evolutionarily ontological reflexion on information

The framework here is a dispute with a narrow semantic conception of inform ation, in which the role of the knowing subject is typically over-estimated . The author instead recommends a distinction between two basic kinds of in formation - natural information and cultural information. Within both these kinds the traditional division between structural and semantic information is then made. A priori genetic information, which is demonstrably onticall y constitutive, is considered to be the typical structural information of l iving systems. A posteriori epigenetic information, which in animal-life pl ays a communicative and cognitive role, is considered to be the semantic, n euronal information of living systems. Semantical and structural socio-cult ural information, which only when combined produce a cultural system, are d erived from the development of natural neuronal information. It is then obs erved how from ordinary human knowledge of the world and from interpersonal communication, a new ontically constitutive information, unknown to nature , arises - the genome of culture. It is observed that this happens in two w ays - directly and indirectly. As an example of a direct path to the ontica l creativity of culture the development of technology is given. An example of an indirect path is the organisational development of the hunter-gather neolithic culture. The author, with a view to the positive resolution of ec ological conflict, gives special attention to the specific content of socio -culture information, with its inadequacy for the structure of nature. The impoverished content of socio-cultural information, which is one of the cau ses of the counter-natural orientation of culture, is derived from the fact that the object of that information is a phylogenetically deformed appeara nce of reality - a mere fragment of the explicative order processed by the senses and by reason. In conclusion we are reminded of the complications wh ich the acceptance of more adequate, "biophilous" information in contempora ry counter-natural cultural systems would bring about.