The pragmatic notion of information

Abstract. The notion of information is used in a wide variety. It seems that the differences of the notions cannot be integrated. It might also be the case that ‘information’ is indefinable. The different notions are however used within powerful and rich theories. The theories evolve and thus also the concepts and notions. The notion of information is often implicitly defined in such theories. It is nowadays widely used for terms such as ‘information highway’, ‘information society’ and ‘digital science’. These terms are oriented towards the human deployment. We thus develop an approach to the notion of information that takes the anthropomorphic characteristics of information in its centre.