Hi Terry – and “first-time greetings“ to FIS colleagues,
First, Terry, thank you for your continued effort with this contentious topic. It is truly necessary and worthwhile “heavy lifting.“ Second, in reading all prior postings I am drawn to your 30 Jan. note: > . . . I haven't felt that the specific components of this proposal have been addressed in this thread. < I find myself wondering if this is still the case, in the current thread. This also prompts me to wonder WHY is this “informational topic“ so doggedly contentious? Your January essay and your April preamble both emphasize a need for “reductive“ study of the topic, but which does not seem to truly arise here. This drives me to ask, indeed: “What is the correct level of analysis?“, and what is the level of analysis exhibited. To be clear, I support the reductive vista you seem to endorse. My impression is that there is little focus on the MOST reductive issues, and there is a bit of reasonable “jumping around“ as people reach for exemplars to explain/explore/connect their own view of things. But I also think a problem is buried in “jumping explanatory levels“ due to the nature of “emergent things.“ The unavoidable (co-incident?) inclusion of emergent elements (homunculi?), due to jumping explanatory levels seems likely to introduce logical gaps, that can leave people confused and argumentative. In some ways, your teleodynamic model may even encourage jumping around, simply due to its ambitious nature. Thus, I wonder if that ambitiousness hinders the model’s accessibility. Thoughts? (Yes, some ambitiousness is, generally speaking, required). Third, I am a bit confused (or just unclear) on your assertion of a “non-dual model.“(?) I suspect you must recognize some “dual material aspect,“ at least, as part of Shannon’s model (noise & signal), and your January essay seems to aim to explore a “dual aspect“ vis-a-vis Boltzmann and Shannon – yes, they are connected, but there are also clear distinctions to be made too, no? Marcus
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