Dear Michel and FIS Colleagues,
This will be an interesting discussion, since the core nature and role of
information will be involved. Here is just one first point: to me, as a
chemist, chemical information is only secondarily an object capable of being
formalized, archived, etc. A
Dear Joe, dear FISErs,
An organic chemist is able to predict a number of properties from the
structural formula, including much about reactivity of the compound.
But as you know, doing that properly is extremely difficult in a
number of cases, because the rules governing reactivity are much more
Michel -- Organic chemistry was known to be the most difficult course in
Columbia University. But I got interested in it, worked very hard
constantly, and I achieved an 'A'. But what you say here indicates several
orders of magnitude more difficulty than what I played with in university.
For
