Dear Bob,
With all respect, I never understood the definition of information in this
paper (on p. 28) as “first natural selection assembling the very constraints on
the release of energy that then constitutes work and the propagation of
organization.”
1. I tend to think of information a
Shannon declared in his original book that constraints are information. I don’t
get the distinction you are trying to make. Also, Shannon information applies
to continuous systems. If they have a form (are constrained), then they have
finite information. Infinite information applies only if ther
Arturo, List:
This is a view that was fairly common, especially associated with Edwin Jaynes,
but the other view has also been put forward by people like Brillouin and, more
recently, John Wheeler, Murray Gell-Mann and Seth Lloyd, for example.
Cosmologist David Layzer is another example. Intere
Bravo Arturo - I totally agree - in a paper I co-authored with Stuart Kauffman
and others we talked abut the relativity of
information and the fact that information is not an absolute. Here is the
abstract of the paper and an excerpt from the paper that discusses the
relativity of information.
Dear Arturo,
Thank you for your encouraging comment. Please see responses in blue.
You wrote:
“as every kind of logic (…including maths, to be honest…) is based on axioms
that stand just for who believe they are true. I give you an example, by
examining Luparsco’s postulates.
http://ap
Dear FISers,
I know that some of you are going to kill me, but there’s something
that I must confess.
I notice, from the nice issued raised by Francesco Rizzo, Joseph
Brenner, John Collier, that the main concerns are always energetic/informational
arguments and accounts.
Indeed, the curre
