I should have said as well that my student, Scott Muller, was able to prove that the information content I refer to is unique. He uses group theory following he argument I made that information originates in symmetry breaking. His book is Asymmetry: The Foundation of Information (The Frontiers Collection) http://www.amazon.com/Asymmetry-Foundation-Information-Frontiers-Collection/dp/3540698833On Jul 29, 2014, at 1:44 AM, John Collier <[email protected]> wrote:
I made the relevant distinctions in a book chapter in 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.
- Intrinsic Information (1990)
Ill 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.
John
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