Dear Colleagues,
Best wishes for a happy and productive New Year!
Now that the holiday "truce" is past, I respectfully enter my opposing view to
the "numerical - combinatorial" turn to information I see appearing. Not having
a stable definition is not some kind of shameful disease, but a chara
Dear Pedro, Qiao Tian-qing, Karl and all FIS colleagues.
Please receive my best wishes for the New Year. Let it be fruitful and
successful !
Sorry, for a long time I have no possibilities to work in internet. I had many
travels and after returning in Sofia more than a month I had no internet and
I am probably too late, as usual recently, to this discussion, but I
recommend David Hull's book, Science as a Process. In the book,
Hull did ethnography in the first part (of systematics), showing how
scientists actually interacted in order to pass on their ideas and
increase their inclusive aca
Dear Qiao Tian-qing,
(I hope that this address is both respectful and friendly).
Thank you for an interesting statement and the opportunity to discuss in a
deeper fashion the term "information". Our differences are not unbridgeable:
you say that the term "information" can not be given a precise o
