From the Heisenberg Picture to Bohm: a New Perspective on Active Information and its relation to Shannon Information.

In this paper we discuss some of the background to the notion of active information introduced by Bohm and Hiley to account for quantum processes. To appreciate the full significance of this new notion, we show why it is essential to distinguish our approach from the approach that goes under the name 'Bohmian mechanics'. We then show for the first time how the quantum potential emerges from the Heisenberg picture thus providing a new perspective to the whole approach. This enables us to clarify the role of the energy associated with the quantum potential and the status of active information. We conclude with some remarks on the relation between active information and Shannon information.

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