Thanks, Ken. I think your previous message and this one are drawing sort
of the border-lines of the discussion. Achieving a comprehensive view on
the interrelationship between computation and information is an
essential matter. In my opinion, and following the Vienna discussions,
whenever life cycles are involved and meaningfully "touched", there is
info; while the mere info circulation according to fixed rules and not
impinging on any life-cycle relevant aspect, may be taken as
computation. The distinction between both may help to consider more
clearly the relationship between the four great domains of sceince:
physical, biological, social, and Informational. If we adopt a
pan-computationalist stance, the information turn of societies, of
bioinformation, neuroinformation, etc. merely reduces to applying
computer technologies. I think this would be a painful error, repeating
the big mistake of 60s-70s, when people band-wagon to developed the
sciences of the artificial and reduced the nascent info science to
library science. People like Alex Pentland (his "social physics" 2014)
are again taking the wrong way... Anyhow, it was nicer talking face to
face as we did in the past conference!
best ---Pedro
Ken Herold wrote:
FIS:
Sorry to have been too disruptive in my restarting discussion post--I
did not intend to substitute for the Information Science thread an
alternative way of philosophy or computing. The references I listed
are indicative of some bad thinking as well as good ideas to reflect
upon. Our focus is information and I would like to hear how you might
believe the formal relational scheme of Rosenbloom could be helpful?
Ken
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Ken Herold
Director, Library Information Systems
Hamilton College
198 College Hill Road
Clinton, NY 13323
315-859-4487
kher...@hamilton.edu <mailto:kher...@hamilton.edu>
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Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group
Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud
Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Aragón (CIBA)
Avda. San Juan Bosco, 13, planta X
50009 Zaragoza, Spain
Tfno. +34 976 71 3526 (& 6818)
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