RE: [Fis] Joined in consensus - after all!

2006-09-20 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ ___ fis mailing

RE: [FIS] Re: Concluding replies

2006-10-06 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR)Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX AmsterdamTel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Now available: The Knowledge-Based Economy: Modeled, Measured, Simulated. 385 pp.; US

RE: [FIS] General remark

2006-10-27 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
be provided with meaning, namely: uncertainty. However, this meaning is not yet substantive like the information impact of a meaningful information on the stock exchange. Meaning can only be provided to the Shannon-type information by a system. With best wishes, Loet Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam

[Fis] Season's greetings in anticipation of 2007

2006-12-28 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
://www.leydesdorff.net/temp/hyperincursive.exe one! With best wishes for 2007, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http

RE: [Fis] Re: Continuing Discussion of Social and Cultural Complexity

2007-02-02 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

[Fis] Mapping the Knowledge Structures in Patents using Co-classifications

2007-02-04 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
/wipo06/UZ.txt Uzbekistan (80 patents) http://www.leydesdorff.net/wipo06/VE.txt Venezuela (2 patents) http://www.leydesdorff.net/wipo06/VN.txt Viet Nam (3 patents) http://www.leydesdorff.net/wipo06/ZA.txt South Africa (167 patents) Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR

RE: [Fis] Re: fis Digest, Vol 501, Issue 5

2007-02-05 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
increasingly to invert the hierarchy. With best wishes, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http

RE: [Fis] Continuing Discussion of Social and Cultural Complexity

2007-02-15 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
in steering power by being more reflexive about its functions. With best wishes, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [Fis] Continuing Discussion of Social and Cultural Complexity

2007-02-19 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
dream of a state of freedom. :-) With best wishes, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http

RE: [Fis] Continuing Discussion of Social and Cultural Complexity

2007-02-24 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
and commodities. The constraints, for example, are then resources and regulations. The regulations, however, communicate information very different from prices and commodities. With best wishes, Loet Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research

RE: [Fis] Continuing Discussion of Social and Cultural Complexity

2007-03-02 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
to operate differently from psychological systems because the latter are integrated into identities, while the former may remain differentiated in terms of distributions (which produce and self-reproduce entropy). With best wishes, Loet Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam

RE: [Fis] Continuing Discussion of Social and Cultural Complexity

2007-03-04 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
It is indeed tempting to suppose that, in the philosophical perspective, the object of human economies is to produce entropy! STAN Yes: because the economy is equilibrating. Innovations upset the tendency towards equilibrium (Schumpeter) and thus induce cycles into the economy. This is

[Fis] Social Complexity: concluding comments

2007-03-27 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Fyi. With best wishes, Loet From: Loet Leydesdorff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 25, 2007 2:46 PM To: 'Diskussionsforum zur soziologischen Systemtheorie Niklas Luhmanns' Subject: Double contingency Dear Franz and colleagues, In a previous

RE: [Fis] about fis discussions

2007-06-06 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Dear Karl, The expected information content of a distribution can be measured, for example, in bits of information. Does one need more than this for defining information? With best wishes, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR

RE: [Fis] about fis discussions

2007-06-06 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Now available

RE: [Fis] info meaning

2007-09-30 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
is that there is still a long way to go in this research program and that unlike yours it is not confined to the biological domain because of the more abstract definitions. With best wishes, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48

RE: SV: [Fis] info meaning

2007-10-05 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
. The difference that makes a difference then becomes the mutual information between the information processing and the meaning-processing. It needs further elaboration. With best wishes, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012

RE: [Fis] info meaning

2007-10-07 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
, have still to be appreciated in the substantive domain of application, but they can be informative to the extent of being counter-intuitive. Best wishes, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam Tel.: +31-20

Re: [Fis] info meaning

2007-10-11 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Loet - if your claim is true then how do you explain that a random soup of organic chemicals have more Shannon info than an equal number of organic chemicals organized as a living cell where knowledge of some chemicals automatically implies the presence of others and hence have less surprise

RE: [Fis] more thoughts about Shannon info

2007-11-10 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
in the other. Thus, we are able to move back and forth between frameworks using the formalizations. With best wishes, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681

[Fis] The development of scholarly communication about Nanotechnology, 1996-2006

2007-12-26 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
wishes for a Happy Newyear, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Visiting Professor, http

[Fis] dynamic animations of journal maps; preprint version

2008-02-11 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
of structural change among the disciplines involved. Loet Leydesdorff http://users.fmg.uva.nl/lleydesdorff/journals/#_ftn1 [a] Thomas Schank http://users.fmg.uva.nl/lleydesdorff/journals/#_ftn2 [b] http://users.fmg.uva.nl/lleydesdorff/journals/#_ftnref1 [a] Amsterdam School of Communications Research

[Fis] animations of social networks: new release of visone (freeware)

2008-04-24 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
of the program is available from http://i11www.iti.uni-karlsruhe.de/members/schank/visone/visone.jnlp. ** apologies for cross-postings Loet Leydesdorff, Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam, mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [Fis] list discussions

2008-05-24 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
. Discursive knowledge constructs its own order. Best wishes, Loet Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http

Re: [Fis] (msg. from Bob Ulanowicz)

2008-06-04 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
, H probabilistic entropy. H is dimensionless and can be applied to any probability distribution. S is expressed in Joule/Kelvin (because of k(B) ) and is only meaningfull in the physical domain. What has to be bridged? It seems clear to me. Best wishes, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff

[Fis] A dynamic extension of multidimensional scaling: animating the development of _Social Networks_

2008-06-20 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Animating the development of _Social Networks_ over time using a dynamic extension of multidimensional scaling http://www.leydesdorff.net/socnetw/paper/index.htm Loet Leydesdorff, Thomas Schank, Andrea Scharnhorst, Wouter De Nooy The animation of network visualizations poses technical

Re: [Fis] streams of order (III)

2008-06-20 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Helas, a good theoretical scheme (info theory, mutual info, etc.) is a must, but something else is needed for the inclusion of meaning. In my opinion, we should not make things more difficult than they are. A difference can only make a difference if there is a second degree of freedom for

[Fis] The Knowledge-Based Economy: Globalization and Self-Organization in the Dynamics of Communication

2008-06-27 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
/codification.pdf pdf-version _ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam blocked::mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; blocked::http://www.leydesdorff.net/ http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Visiting Professor 2007

Re: [Fis] Reactions to ...

2008-07-12 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
: Completely. Science cannot fathom individual cases. It can only deal with ensembles using various statistical methods. STAN Best wishes, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: [Fis] The Fascination of Art

2008-10-06 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
can also consider this as the mutual information between information processing and meaning processing. With best wishes, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20

[Fis] The Communication of Meaning and Knowledge

2008-11-12 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
The Communication of Meaning and Knowledge in a Knowledge-Based Economy, Guest Column, SemiotiX nr. 13, at http://www.semioticon.com/semiotix/semiotix13/sem-13-02.html With kind regards, Loet ** apologies for cross-postings Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam

Re: [Fis] information(s)

2008-12-09 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
. Best wishes, Loet Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ -Original Message

Re: [Fis] Emerging Synthesis?

2009-01-15 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
3. Thereafter, the coordination dynamics deals with informational quantities that transcend the medium through which the parts communicate. The binding or coupling is mediated by information and not by conventional forces (or not only) But isn't that exchange of information carrier the way

Re: [Fis] Emerging Synthesis?

2009-01-16 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
as a coordination mechanism. Best wishes, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 mailto:l...@leydesdorff.net l...@leydesdorff.net ; http

[Fis] The Dynamics of Exchanges and References among Scientific Texts, and the Autopoiesis of Discursive Knowledge; preprint version

2009-02-20 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
. Analysis of the development of scientific communication in terms of evolving scientific literatures provides us with a model which makes these evolutionary processes amenable to measurement. Diana Lucio Arias Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48

[Fis] Lock-In and Break-Out from Technological Trajectories: Modeling and Policy Implications; preprint version

2009-02-27 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Wilfred Dolfsma Loet Leydesdorff, Lock-In and Break-Out from Technological Trajectories: Modeling and Policy Implications, Technological Forecasting and Social Change (2009, forthcoming); http://www.leydesdorff.net/breakout/index.htm pdf-version at http://www.leydesdorff.net/breakout

[Fis] Interaction Information: a Triple Helix indicator?

2009-03-28 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Interaction Information: Linear and Nonlinear Interpretations, Intern. Journal of General Systems (forthcoming). http://www.leydesdorff.net/interactioninformation/interactioninformation.pd f Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research

[Fis] Krippendorff's three-way interaction information I(ABC-AB:AC:BC); freeware

2009-04-13 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
of history, some solutions to problems, International Journal of General Systems 38(2), 189-212. Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 l

[Fis] An Indicator of Research Front Activity: Measuring Intellectual Organization as Uncertainty Reduction in Document Sets

2009-05-11 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
various sample delineations. An emerging research front about citation analysis can be indicated. Diana Lucio-Arias Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. html version at at http://www.leydesdorff.net/synergy/index.htm

Re: [Fis] FW: Fw: Definition of Knowledge?

2009-10-06 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
-- are reflexive to each other.) Best wishes, Loet Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 l...@leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net

Re: [Fis] [Fwd: FW: Definition of Knowledge] from Bill Hall

2009-10-13 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
; discursive knowledge in networks on which agents can reflect. Best wishes, Loet Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 l...@leydesdorff.net

Re: [Fis] [Fwd: FW: Definition of Knowledge] from Bill Hall

2009-10-14 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 l...@leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ -Original Message- From: william-h...@bigpond.com

Re: [Fis] Asymetry and Information: A modest proposal; preprint version now available

2009-11-30 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
://www.leydesdorff.net/GiddensLuhmann/index.htm ** apologies for cross posting Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 l...@leydesdorff.net ; http

[Fis] Generating network overlays to Google Maps from Pajek files (geographical networks)

2009-12-30 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
reads tagged-format files of the ISI Web-of-Science, and produces, among other things, a file cities.txt which can be used directly for the geo-encoding. See at http://www.leydesdorff.net/software/citycoll/index.htm. ** apologies for cross-postings Loet

[Fis] Redundancy in Systems which Entertain a Model of Themselves: Interaction Information and the Self-organization of Anticipation

2010-01-07 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
intellectual organization in terms of distributions of title words, author names, and cited references. Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 l...@leydesdorff.net http

Re: [Fis] Derrida's diferAnce and Kolmogorov's Information Operator

2010-02-22 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
can be considered as the probability of probability distributions, etc. Best wishes, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 mailto:l...@leydesdorff.net l

Re: [Fis] Derrida's diferAnce and Kolmogorov's Information Operator

2010-02-23 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
) for other systems dimensions to build further upon. Because of its fourth dimension it is not subsumed but remains as an independent reality. Is this consonant with Logic in Reality? Best wishes, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR

[Fis] The creative tension between Habermas' critical theory and Luhmann's social systems theory: Communicative Competencies and the Structuration of Expectations

2010-07-09 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
-version at http://www.leydesdorff.net/complicity/complicity.pdf ** apologies for cross-postings Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 l

[Fis] How fractional counting affects the Impact Factor?

2010-07-26 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
/weighted_if.xls http://www.leydesdorff.net/weighted_if/weighted_if.xls. Loet Leydesdorff University of Amsterdam Lutz Bornmann ETH Zurich ** apologies for cross-postings ___ fis mailing list fis@listas.unizar.es https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi

[Fis] The Triple Helix Perspective of Innovation Systems

2010-07-28 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
The Triple Helix Perspective of Innovation Systems Technology Analysis and Strategic Management 22(7), in press; preprint version at http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.4756 Authors: Loet Leydesdorff , Girma Zawdie (Submitted on 27 Jul 2010) Abstract: Alongside the neo-institutional model

Re: [Fis] Revisiting the Fluctuon Model

2010-09-25 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
, too, but sometimes positivism is ideologically prevailing. Best wishes, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 mailto:l...@leydesdorff.net l

[Fis] citation indicators of scientific journals

2010-09-26 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
were difficult to interpret. _ Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 mailto:l...@leydesdorff.net l...@leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ http

[Fis] Problems of normalization for differences in citation behavior among fields of science

2010-10-14 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
thus easily be extended with the 1% (= 99th percentile) most highly-cited papers. The seeming disadvantage of having to use non-parametric statistics is more than compensated by possible gains in the precision. Authors: Loet Leydesdorff http://arxiv.org/find/cs/1/au:+Leydesdorff_L/0/1/0/all/0/1

Re: [Fis] Recapping the discussion? Joseph's Recap

2010-10-16 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
? Fortunately, I don’t send this on a Sunday morning. J With best wishes for a nice Saturday, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31

Re: [Fis] Recapping the discussion? Joseph's Recap

2010-10-17 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
domain, that is, the one where differences prevail. Best wishes, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 mailto:l

Re: [Fis] Stan to Loet

2010-10-27 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
_ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 mailto:l...@leydesdorff.net l...@leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ http

Re: [Fis] Tactilizing processing

2010-11-01 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:46 AM, John Collier colli...@ukzn.ac.za wrote: At 09:13 AM 01/11/2010, Loet Leydesdorff wrote: Dear colleagues, It seems to me that we have a more elaborated apparatus for discussing the distances of a perturbation across a number of interfaces. Two information

Re: [Fis] Fwd: [Fwd: Discussion Colophon] From J.Brenner

2010-11-04 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
derivatives from “frangere” – fractals, fragments, fragile – for the understanding. The models remain volatile albeit more symbolically generalized than common language. With best wishes, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications

Re: [Fis] Fw: INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION: A Charicature

2010-11-21 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
wishes, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 mailto:l...@leydesdorff.net l...@leydesdorff.net ; http

Re: [Fis] Fwd: Doctrine of Limitation

2010-11-26 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
_ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 mailto:l...@leydesdorff.net l...@leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ http://www.leydesdorff.net

Re: [Fis] Replies to Walter Loet

2010-12-18 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Replying to Loet -- I will post this to fis later in the week Your distinction between the backward looking institutional viewpoint and the forward looking evolutionary perspective is cogent, but it plays down the fact that the evolutionary one is restrained by current hegemonies of

Re: [Fis] Replies to Walter Loet

2010-12-21 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Replying to Loet on information: I would say that there is a third major kind of information -- information as constraint (on anything, therefore on entropy production). This comes out of Pattee's distinction between dynamics and non-holonomic constrain. Example: examine an equation, say

Re: [Fis] The Background to Modern Science--From Krassimir Markov

2011-02-04 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
to consider natural philosophy to be consistent with religion. Epistemologically, I would nowadays side with the cardinals. J Only they have the “truth” in stock. Best wishes, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research

Re: [Fis] [Fwd: Re: Hannam's Contentious Postulate---Karl J.

2011-03-16 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
_ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 mailto:l...@leydesdorff.net l...@leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ http

Re: [Fis] Discussion colophon--James Hannam

2011-03-24 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
. As Whitehead noted: a science which does not forget its past, is doomed. Probably, a kind of Scylla and Charybdis between which one has to travel reflexively. Best wishes, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research

Re: [Fis] Discussion colophon--James Hannam. Orders and Ordering Principles

2011-03-28 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Dear Joe and colleagues, 1. Does Loet's reply to Karl regarding frameworks for observation of actual states vs. frameworks for expectations imply that such frameworks are completely mutually exclusive? Of course, not: the expectations are informed by previous observations and further

Re: [Fis] Discussion colophon--James Hannam. Orders and Ordering Principles

2011-04-01 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
the psychological system different from the biological. Cogitantes can entertain and discuss models (as cogitata). One of the models, for example, is the one of autopoiesis. Best wishes, Loet Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR

Re: [Fis] Discussion colophon--James Hannam. Orders and Ordering Principles

2011-04-02 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
/structuration.pdf With best wishes, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel. +31-20-525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 mailto:l...@leydesdorff.net l...@leydesdorff.net

Re: [Fis] [Re: [Different GTI]

2011-04-27 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
. Best wishes, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-842239111 mailto:l...@leydesdorff.net l...@leydesdorff.net ; http

Re: [Fis] replies to several. The Key to Time

2011-05-23 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Dear Koichiro and colleagues, Let me try to raise some questions. I find the language sometimes difficult. Examples might help! Ø The underlying issue is how can we construct the flow of time from the tenses. In other words: time is a construct of language? When the constant

Re: [Fis] meaningful inforamtion

2011-07-20 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
available at http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1011/1011.3244.pdf . I argue that the dynamics of meaning are very different from those of information. Best wishes, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR

Re: [Fis] meaningful information

2011-07-20 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
, however, remain uncertain orders of expectations, and one should caution against reification from the meta-biological perspective of systems theory. For those interested: the preprint is available at http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1011/1011.3244.pdf Best wishes, Loet Loet Leydesdorff

Re: [Fis] meaningful information

2011-07-20 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
, however, remain uncertain orders of expectations, and one should caution against reification from the meta-biological perspective of systems theory. For those interested: the preprint is available at http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1011/1011.3244.pdf Best wishes, Loet Loet Leydesdorff

Re: [Fis] testing

2011-09-06 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
., in scholarly discourse) and then proceed to discuss how these three layers can interact (recursively and incursively). Perhaps, this gives us some common ground for further discussions across disciplinary divides. Best wishes, Loet Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam

Re: [Fis] Chemical information: a field of fuzzy contours ?

2011-09-19 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Dear Michel, Ø Stating that information does not exist may be compared to stating that a cloud does not exist: it is hard to define it rigorously and its frontiers are highly fuzzy, but everybody is sure that it exists. The problem is here the “exist”. This easily lead to reification.

Re: [Fis] Chemical information: a field of fuzzy contours ?

2011-09-19 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
as for orbitals. All my best, Michel. 2011/9/19 Loet Leydesdorff l...@leydesdorff.net: Dear Michel, Ø  Stating that information does not exist may be compared to stating that a cloud does not exist: it is hard to define it rigorously and its frontiers are highly fuzzy, but everybody is sure

Re: [Fis] Chemical information: a field of fuzzy contours ?

2011-09-26 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Dear Michel, It seems to me that Shannon's formulas are mathematical and yet content-free. By the specification of a system of reference they can be provided with dimensionality and then also meaning. For example, in the case of the momenta and positions of particles H is multiplied with k(B) [S

Re: [Fis] Fw: Fw: On Varna and Deacon

2011-10-14 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
___ fis mailing list fis@listas.unizar.es https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis -- Prof. Loet Leydesdorff Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-20- 525 3681 l

Re: [Fis] Chemo-informatics as the source of morphogenesis - both practical and logical.

2011-10-17 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Dear Jerry, Perhaps, we exchange at cross-purposes. I don't wish to deny that in specific fields such as chemo-informatics or social-science informatics, one studies specific arrangements and configurations. (I mentioned graphs.) However, the red herring emerges when these configurations are

Re: [Fis] Chemo-informatics as the source of morphogenesis - both practical and logical.

2011-10-18 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
without excluding either. And without confounding one another! We are able to specify the differences and then to translate meaningfully between different discourses. Best, Loet ___ fis mailing list fis@listas.unizar.es

Re: [Fis] Category Theory and Information. Back to Basics

2011-10-28 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
based primarily and mainly on discrete time-events. Why would one go back to comparative statics? How is Logic in Reality to be assessed from this perspective? Best wishes, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR

Re: [Fis] Discussion of Information Science Education

2011-12-03 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Technology. May universities have special schools for library and information science (LIS). This is different from our discussions at this list about information theory. Nevertheless, there is a problem with reinventing a wheel. J Best wishes, Loet Loet Leydesdorff Professor

Re: [Fis] Common Ground - Discussion of Information Science Education

2011-12-30 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Visualization and Analysis of Frames in Collections of Messages: http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1112/1112.6286.pdf Content Analysis and the Measurement of Meaning Esther Vlieger Loet Leydesdorff A step-to-step introduction is provided on how to generate a semantic map from a collection

Re: [Fis] Common Ground - Discussion of Information ScienceEducation

2011-12-31 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
! Joseph - Original Message - From: Loet Leydesdorff mailto:l...@leydesdorff.net To: fis@listas.unizar.es Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 9:20 AM Subject: Re: [Fis] Common Ground - Discussion of Information ScienceEducation Visualization and Analysis of Frames

Re: [Fis] Physics of computing

2012-04-11 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
, but it is not a Shannon entropy (Krippendorff, 2009). It can be considered as a redundancy = reduction of uncertainty = a difference which makes a difference. Best, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48

Re: [Fis] POSTS ON TERRY' S BOOK - PRESENTED BY DEACON

2012-05-04 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
and information-processing. Selection mechanisms can only be hypothesized (as genotypical to systems). A naturalistic approach will not capture this knowledge-based layer of discursive selections, in my opinion. Perhaps, I missed the message. Best wishes, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff

Re: [Fis] Absence and life

2012-05-18 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
is then no longer understood naturalistically, but in terms of a development of the communication (e.g., discursive knowledge) which leaves a trail behind. The historical trail is present, but the evolutionary dynamics is otherwise absent since hypothesized as res cogitans. Best, Loet Loet Leydesdorff

Re: [Fis] Absence and life

2012-05-20 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
and non-naturalistic --- interact. Onward! Joe - Original Message - From: Loet Leydesdorff l...@leydesdorff.net To: 'Joseph Brenner' joe.bren...@bluewin.ch; fis@listas.unizar.es Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 8:14 PM Subject: RE: [Fis] Absence and life Dear Joe, Perhaps

[Fis] Mutual Redundancies in Inter-human Communication Systems [preprint]

2013-01-30 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Mutual Redundancies in Inter-human Communication Systems: http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.6849 Steps Towards a Calculus of Processing Meaning Loet Leydesdorff and Inga A. Ivanova Assuming that meaning cannot be communicated, we extend Shannon's mathematical theory of communication

Re: [Fis] Cognitive Effects of Cognitive Research: Photographic evidence

2013-01-31 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
of Processing Meaning Does the issue return in the book? Our argument is that this mutual information is a redundancy and can then be integrated into the framework of the mathematical theory of communication. Best wishes, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University

Re: [Fis] FW: Cognitive Effects of Cognitive Research: Photographic evidence

2013-01-31 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Dear colleagues, It seems to me that this notion of constraint can be compared with Maturana's structural coupling. How would one operationalize it in terms of information theory? The constraint is different from a condition, because a conditional probability distribution also implies

Re: [Fis] [Fwd: SV: Science, Philosophy and Information. An Alternative Relation] S.Brier

2013-02-11 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
How does one measure the synergy among three discourses? That is an interesting question within information theory (as part of both science and philosophy). Best, Loet -Original Message- From: fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] On Behalf Of Pedro C.

Re: [Fis] Cognitive Effects of Cognitive Research: Photographic evidence

2013-02-23 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
. 143 ff.). Is that methodologically the same argument? I assume so. Or have you taken these measurement issues also further? Best, Loet Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. Tel.: +31

Re: [Fis] About FIS 2005

2013-04-16 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
the operationalization and the possibility of measurement in information theory. In other words, information theory then becomes only philosophy. Best, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX

[Fis] Redundancy Generation in University-Industry-Government Relations; preprint version

2013-08-20 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
in inter-human communications. Inga Ivanova (a) and Loet Leydesdorff (b) (a) Far Eastern Federal University, Department of International Education Department of Economics and production management, Office 514, 56 Aleutskaya st., Vladivostok 690950, Russia; inga@mail.ru . (b

Re: [Fis] THE SOCIOTYPE: SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND BEYOND

2013-10-01 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
. Best, Loet _ Loet Leydesdorff Professor, University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam mailto:l...@leydesdorff.net l...@leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Honorary

Re: [Fis] THE SOCIOTYPE: SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND BEYOND

2013-10-08 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Loet, your criticism is very accurate, thanks. But I really think, as said Jorge, that our sociality has to have a fairly stable structure, that is to say, lower and upper limits that feed our mental wellbeing. It's not fixed, of course, but individuals become integral embodiments of emotions, and

Re: [Fis] Discussion Recap.

2013-10-31 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Ok, but in order to understand the emerging macro-variables of the social structure, one must always take into account the whole cognitive capabilities of the individual. Dear Raquel and colleagues, It seems to me that this misses the point that the non-linear dynamics of the macro-system do

Re: [Fis] reply to Loet

2013-11-01 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
S: Yes. These 'windows' are the channels for constraint imposition from level to level -- transactions, not direct interactions -- between them. The lower, faster acting, level provides 'data' constructed as ensemble data by the higher level, while the higher level imposes relatively continuous

Re: [Fis] social flow

2013-11-23 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Dear colleagues, It seems to me that one can use models from biology to study inter-human communication; but inter-human communication is not alive. The dynamics are non-linear, but probably very different from the dynamics among molecules. For example, counterfactual orders can be

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