> On Jul 29, 2014, at 1:44 AM, John Collier <[email protected]> wrote: > > I made the relevant distinctions in a book chapter in 1990, > Intrinsic Information (1990) > but I had to introduce some new concepts and definitions to the usual > thermodynamic ones. The lack of those has caused multiple confusions and > misunderstandings when I have discussed the issues on mailing lists. In > particular I argued that dissipative and non-dissipative is a scale dependent > distinction. The goal was to ask what the world must be like if we get > information from the world, as some philosophers hold. At that time I thought > that semiotics was too far from my audience that I didn't mention it, tough I > have dome some extensions in later papers.
I’ll check those out John before going further. I think there are a lot of hidden assumptions at play which I think need clarified or brought out. My apologies for not having been part of the discussion in past dialogs on this.
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