Jerry C., List: JC: Would it be fair to say that you seek to understand how CSP’s writings relate to scientific causality?
By "scientific causality," do you mean *efficient* causality (i.e., brute reactions), *final* causality (i.e., laws of nature), both, or something else altogether? JC: I think it is fair to ask if Jon’s views on engineering wrt CSP writings are typical of modern engineering disciplines, such as chemical engineering and molecular-biological engineering in which specific causal processes must be arranged from the body of scientific information (chemical / biological) available. My discipline is structural engineering, in which most of the relevant causal processes and corresponding diagrammatic representational system rules are quite well-established. I would welcome feedback on whether and how my "logic of ingenuity" thesis is applicable to other fields of engineering, especially those in which this is not (yet) the case. Regards, Jon Alan Schmidt - Olathe, Kansas, USA Professional Engineer, Amateur Philosopher, Lutheran Layman www.LinkedIn.com/in/JonAlanSchmidt - twitter.com/JonAlanSchmidt On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Jerry LR Chandler < [email protected]> wrote: > Soren: > > Would it be fair to say that you seek to understand how CSP’s writings > relate to scientific causality? > > I think it is fair to ask if Jon’s views on engineering wrt CSP writings > are typical of modern engineering disciplines, such as chemical engineering > and molecular-biological engineering in which specific causal processes > must be arranged from the body of scientific information (chemical / > biological) available. Within the professions, these are referred to a > “scale-up” problems. Or, otherwise as “from the lab-bench to production”. > > BTW, Soren, on a personal note and in reference to an earlier exchange > here (2014?) on the role of electricity in bio-cybernetics / biosemiotics, > I have just finished writing a paper -An Introduction to the Foundations > of Chemical Information Theory. Tarski – Lesniewski Logical Structures and > the Organization of Natural Sorts and Kinds. > > Indirectly, it draws on certain aspects of CSP logic, as well as the views > of M. Malatesta’s on meta-languages. But, it focuses the meaning of quanta > of electricity and the relations to symmetry. It will be submitted for > publication after colleagues have provided comments. > > Cheers > > Jerry >
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