Re: [Fis] What is information? and What is life?

2016-12-18 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Dear James and colleagues, Weaver (1949) made two major remarks about his coauthor (Shannon)'s contribution: 1. the definition of information as uncertainty is counter-intuitive ("bizarre"); (p. 27) 2. "In particular, information must not be confused with meaning." (p. 8) The definit

[Fis] Klein Bottle logophysics and biosemiotics

2016-12-18 Thread Diego Lucio Rapoport
Dear Colleagues, I would like to send you links to some recent works of mine. Please make them circulate. Muchas gracias y Felices Fiestas, Diego Rapoport https://www.academia.edu/30485983/Klein_Bottle_Logophysics_S elf-reference_Heterarchies_Genomic_Topologies_Harmonics_and_ Evolution._Part_

[Fis] information & life

2016-12-18 Thread tozziart...@libero.it
Dear Krassimir, After the hot discussion about the elusive meaning of the term "information", we are allowed to use the first order predicate logic: a) The definition of information is not univocal. b) The definition of life is information.c) Therefore, the definition of life is not univocal.

Re: [Fis] Fwd: What is life?

2016-12-18 Thread Mark Johnson
Thank you Bob! The medium is a very restricted form of communication on the internet, of course... Are our circular deliberations about information victims of the so-called "information technology" which enables them? Is this a variety of Wittgenstein's realisation that the problems of philoso

Re: [Fis] Fwd: What is life?

2016-12-18 Thread Bob Logan
Hello Loet, Bob U, Alex et alia - I agree with Bob U when he wrote "The problem is that information is not an absolute.” As I have stated before on this list information is relative and depends on the context. And I agree with Loet when he wrote, "Different systems of reference, of course, ca