Dear FIS colleagues,
John's comments below on that book are quite interesting. Most
approaches to information rely on "stuff" and "organization of stuff"
--information is inevitably physical, as Rolf Landauer put long ago.
However, "non stuff" and "organization of "non stuff" might be taken as
central ideas too, e.g. in Deacon's approach --through the notion of
absence. Deacon is one of the main contributors of that book, and author
of another very recent info book that has already been referred in this
list, by Joseph I think.
My further point, to connect with an unfinished message on info science
teaching some weeks ago, is that genuine informational entities, those
capable of making "distinctions" that are used for self-constructing in
permanent communication with the medium, deserve a special status within
the whole info science studies. These distinctional entities are but the
great players of the absence game... Therfor info science teaching
should cover "central themes", "multidisciplinary recombinations", and
the comparative study of "informational-distinctional entities."
Best wishes to all!
---Pedro
John Collier escribió:
Hi all,
I am reviewing a book edited by Paul Davies and Niels Henrik Gregersen
titled /Information and the Nature of Reality: From Physics to
Metaphysics/. There is a lot of quasireligious stuff that I find hard
to swallow, mostly by people I have never heard of before, but many of
the chapters are by well-known scholars who have been influential in
physics and biology, as well as the history of science. The most
common thread through the articles is that the world is not made up of
"stuff" (matter), and that the idea has been problematic since its
introduction. Instead the world is made of information (the "It from
Bit" view). Interesting book, even if you don't agree with it.
John
Professor John Collier
Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Durban 4041 South Africa
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