Post : Doubt, Uncertainty, Dispersion, Entropy : 1
http://inquiryintoinquiry.com/2014/07/01/doubt-uncertainty-dispersion-entropy-1/
Posted : July 1, 2014 at 10:00 pm
Author : Jon Awbrey
Tags : Dispersion, Doubt, Entropy, Information, Information Theory,
Inquiry, Inquiry Driven Systems, Inquiry Into Inquiry, Peirce,
Peirce List, Uncertainty
Re:Stephen Rose • The Second Law of Thermodynamics
☞http://web.archive.org/web/20140702010000/http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/13416
Peircers,
I decided to copy snippets of this thread to my blog, partly in anticipation of the math formatting
I will most likely need to use eventually and partly because my brain has apparently shut down on
the 1870 Logic of Relatives thread for the duration of the summer.
I added a few links to "my long-time work on inquiry driven systems" and related subjects for anyone
who is short on light summer reading:
Prospects for Inquiry Driven Systems
☞http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/Prospects_for_Inquiry_Driven_Systems
Introduction to Inquiry Driven Systems
☞http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/Introduction_to_Inquiry_Driven_Systems
Inquiry Driven Systems : Inquiry Into Inquiry
☞http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/Inquiry_Driven_Systems
Differential Logic and Dynamic Systems
☞http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/Differential_Logic_and_Dynamic_Systems_2.0
Regards,
Jon
Previously ...
Just a note to anchor a series of recurring thoughts that come to mind incidental to the thread on
entropy, et cetera, but I won't have to much to say on the bio-chemico-physico-thermo-dynamic side
of things, so I'll spin this off under a separate heading. My interest in this topic arises mainly
from my long-time work on inquiry driven systems, where understanding the intertwined measures of
uncertainty and information is critical to comprehending the dynamics of inquiry.
In a famous passage ( http://www.cspeirce.com/menu/library/bycsp/fixation/fx-main.htm#CP5.374 ) ,
Peirce says that inquiry begins with the “irritation of doubt” and ends when the irritation is
soothed. Here we find the same compound of affective and cognitive ingredients that we find in
Aristotle's original recipe for the sign relation.
When we view inquiry as a process taking place in a system the first thing we have to ask is what
are the properties or variables that we need to consider in describing the state of the system at
any given time. Taking a Peircean perspective on a system capable of undergoing anything like an
inquiry process, we are led to ask what are the conditions for the possibility of a system having
“states of uncertainty” and “states of information” as state variables.
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