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Vol: 47(61) No: 2 / June 2002 Towards a Broader Information Concept Applied in Cognitive Modeling M. Crisan Department of Compter Science and Engineering, University "Politehnica" of Timisoara, Bd. V. Parvan, 1900 Timisoara, Romania, phone: (+40) 56-204333/721, e-mail: crisan@cs.utt.ro, web: www.cs.utt.ro/~crisan Keywords: cognitive modeling, artificial intelligence, Fisher information, algorithmic information, physical entropy. Abstract Starting from the necessity of identifying the causal factors of autonomous cognitive systems, the paper continues the development of a hierarchical cognitive model, initiated by author in his previous work. In this model the concept of information plays a central role. New arguments based on Fisher information are presented which increase the model consistency. References [1] M. 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