Re: [Fis] some notes

2017-11-19 Thread Ulanowicz, Robert
Dear Loet, Shannon "information" is indeed counter-intuitive, and we have John von Neumann's joke to thank for that confusion.Shannon asked von Nuemann what to name his formula. von Neumann told him to name it "entropy", because his metric is "formally identical to von Boltzmann's probabilistic

Re: [Fis] Math, math, math!

2017-11-19 Thread Bruno Marchal
Dear Koichiro, On 15 Nov 2017, at 01:02, Koichiro Matsuno wrote: On 14 Nov 2017 at 6:21 AM, tozziart...@libero.it wrote: I provide what is required by truly scientific reviewers, i.e., testable mathematical predictions. [KM] Any mathematical proposition, once confirmed, can stand alone.

Re: [Fis] some notes

2017-11-19 Thread Francesco Rizzo
Caro Gordana, grazie per l'apprezzamento del mio messaggio. Messaggio che in sintesi significa questo: il pensiero esposto è quello di Hegel; la quantità qualitativa è fondamentale per la Nuova economia che ho elaborato; non considero la matematica una scienza quantitativa; ho discusso di queste

Re: [Fis] some notes

2017-11-19 Thread Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
Dear Francesco, Thank you so much for your enlightening post on logic that is rising the topic one level up. You refer to Hegel who recognised complementary relationship between quality, quantity and their synthesis – measure, which is very central for the current discussion. I made English