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. 2019 Sep 10;21(9):881. doi: 10.3390/e21090881
1 Introduction 3
   1.1 Observable Physics of Information 3
   1.2 Statistical Interpretation: Hierarchical Independences and Dependences Structures 3
   1.3 Statistical Physics Interpretation: K-Body Interacting Systems 4
   1.4 Machine Learning Interpretation: Topological Deep Learning 5
2 Information Cohomology 6
   2.1 A Long March through Information Topology 6
   2.2 Information Functions (Definitions) 7
   2.3 Information Structures and Coboundaries 10
      2.3.1 First Degree (k=1) 12
      2.3.2 Second Degree (k=2) 12
      2.3.3 Third Degree (k=3) 12
      2.3.4 Higher Degrees 13
3 Simplicial Information Cohomology 13
   3.1 Simplicial Substructures of Information 13
   3.2 Topological Self and Free Energy of K-Body Interacting System-Poincaré-Shannon Machine 14
   3.3 k-Entropy and k-Information Landscapes 18
   3.4 Information Paths and Minimum Free Energy Complex 19
      3.4.1 Information Paths (Definition) 19
      3.4.2 Derivatives, Inequalities and Conditional Mutual-Information Negativity 20
      3.4.3 Information Paths Are Random Processes: Topological Second Law of Thermodynamics and Entropy Rate 21
      3.4.4 Local Minima and Critical Dimension 23
      3.4.5 Sum over Paths and Mean Information Path 24
      3.4.6 Minimum Free Energy Complex 25
4 Discussion 27
   4.1 Statistical Physics 27
      4.1.1 Statistical Physics without Statistical Limit? Complexity through Finite Dimensional Non-Extensivity 27
      4.1.2 Naive Estimations Let the Data Speak 28
      4.1.3 Discrete Informational Analog of Renormalization Methods: No Mean-Field Assumptions Let the Objects Differentiate 29
      4.1.4 Combinatorial, Infinite, Continuous and Quantum Generalizations 29
   4.2 Data Science 29
      4.2.1 Topological Data Analysis 29
      4.2.2 Unsupervised and Supervised Deep Homological Learning 30
      4.2.3 Epigenetic Topological Learning—Biological Diversity 31
5 Conclusions 32
References 33