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From: Dino Buzzetti <[email protected]
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To: fis <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:37:44 +0100
Subject: Fwd: [Fis] [Fwd: SV: Science, Philosophy and Information. An
Alternative Relation] S.Brier
2013/2/11 Stanley N Salthe <[email protected]
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One tool for this is to reinstate final cause and Aristotle's four
causes analysis.
STAN
I have been a lurker until now in this list, mostly because
I did not feel entitled to interject. But now I find that this
suggestion voices what since a long time I would have
wished to say: Why not to think of information in terms
of final causality ? this would really subvert the long
established trend to think mechanistically only in terms
of efficient causes. This is really the root of reductionist
physicalism. But 20th-century physics and biology have
emancipated themselves from this point of view quite
in advance of current analytical philosophy of science.
-dino
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