'Information for management' and ' management of change' are represented together within nested ecosystems at organisa tion, organism and substance levels; the environment at one level includes those of any level below it. Products, processes and managing are slow-downs, speed-ups and changing, respec tively, of environmental change. The informations of a product or process are its properties. Informations can take affective (A) or potential (P) forms. A-informations can observably affect another product or process. Abstracts are P-informations detached from any product or process. Learning includes organising P-informations. The model explains existence possi bilities from substances to humans including 'library' versus 'information' people.
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