Re: [Fis] INFORMATION: JUST A MATTER OF MATH

2017-09-18 Thread Sungchul Ji
Hi Fisers, (1) I have been workign with the so-called Planckain Distribution Eqauiton (PDE) that fits almost all long-tailed histograms generated in many fields of natural and human sciences, including atomic physics, protein folding, cell metabolism, decision making, glottometrics, econometr

Re: [Fis] INFORMATION: JUST A MATTER OF MATH

2017-09-18 Thread Lars-Göran Johansson
18 sep. 2017 kl. 18:25 skrev Terrence W. DEACON mailto:dea...@berkeley.edu>>: All of these claims and counter-claims are null hypotheses - hypothetical axioms yet to be tested, both for logical coherence and empirical usefulness. Place your bets. Mine are on contrary assumptions: i.e. non-Turi

Re: [Fis] INFORMATION: JUST A MATTER OF MATH

2017-09-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
On 18 Sep 2017, at 18:25, Terrence W. DEACON wrote: All of these claims and counter-claims are null hypotheses - hypothetical axioms yet to be tested, both for logical coherence and empirical usefulness. Place your bets. Mine are on contrary assumptions: i.e. non-Turing computability, fund

Re: [Fis] INFORMATION: JUST A MATTER OF MATH

2017-09-18 Thread Terrence W. DEACON
All of these claims and counter-claims are null hypotheses - hypothetical axioms yet to be tested, both for logical coherence and empirical usefulness. Place your bets. Mine are on contrary assumptions: i.e. non-Turing computability, fundamental incompleteness, and a deep entanglement between infor

Re: [Fis] INFORMATION: JUST A MATTER OF MATH

2017-09-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
Dear Jose, On 15 Sep 2017, at 16:37, Jose Javier Blanco Rivero wrote: Dear Arturo, Math is indeed a language that CAN describe scientific issues, but it is not the only one. And its ability to cuantify scientific issues do not necesarily make it superior. Math and natural language face the

Re: [Fis] INFORMATION: JUST A MATTER OF MATH

2017-09-18 Thread Bruno Marchal
Dear Arturo, On 15 Sep 2017, at 15:16, tozziart...@libero.it wrote: Dear FISers, I'm sorry for bothering you, but I start not to agree from the very first principles. The only language able to describe and quantify scientific issues is mathematics. Without math, you do not have observables,