Re: [Fis] The Same and Not the Same

2015-07-28 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Dear Joe, The semantic aspects are external to the Shannon perspective (by definition). However, Weaver (1949) gives openings. (I discuss this extensively in the paper at http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.05251.) "Mutual redundancy" can be defined as a measure of the imprint of meaning processing on the

[Fis] The Same and Not the Same

2015-07-28 Thread Joseph Brenner
Dear Bob and All, I have found many useful things in the recent postings, especially Bob U.'s point about the parsing of entropy into two components, mutual information and residual entropy; /qualitatively/, information and entropy are (epistemologically) antithetical, and, I might add, ontolo