Dear FISers,
I recently came across an old interview to W. van Orman Quine and I got an
idea -maybe not very original per se. Quine distinguishes two kind of
philosophical problems: ontological (those referred to the existence of
things) and predicative (what can we say and know about things). Ag
Dear fellows,
Let us not forget that the talk about substrate can be misleading if it is
not taken into account that communication itself produces a "double bind"
(Bateson and Watzlawick)or "double closure " (von Foerster), that is, for
every statement made it allows a set of suppositions to lay
Dear all,
Following the ideas of Mark, Lou, Krassimir and Arturo, I think it is
worth to insist on a proposal I made in this forum a few months ago. That
is, the thesis of a general theory of communication media.
(Before going on I would like to remark that the concepts used here do not
designat
Dear FISers,
What if we take the observer not as an entity of whatever kind (a unity or
identity), but as a distinction (a difference) that when being laid to the
foreground becomes a difference that makes a difference (that is, it
becomes informative -but this information is locally or spatially,
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De: "Jose Javier Blanco Rivero"
Fecha: feb 10, 2018 9:35 AM
Asunto: Re: [Fis] The unification of the theories of information based on
the cateogry theory
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Dear Xueshan,
Thanks for sharing your interesting remarks and references. I th
In principle I agree with Terry. I have been thinking of this, though I am
still not able to make a sound formulation of the idea. Still I am afraid
that if I miss the chance to make at least a brief formulation of it I will
lose the opportunity to make a brainstorming with you. So, here it comes:
Dear Krassimir, dear all,
I have noticed that some descriptions of information make use of
anthropocentric metaphors and that might be misguiding (for instance,
subjective and objective information (Sung)). Agent is a concept that
retains some sort of action-theoretic background but at the same ti
Dear all,
What if, in order to understand information and its relationship with data
and meaning, we distinguish the kind of system we are talking about in each
case?
We may distinguish systems by their type of operation and the form of their
selforganization. There are living systems, mind syste
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 same formal and logical problems: they
cannot make staments about themselves
Dear Loet,
I want to thank you for sharing this insightful article. I myself have been
experimenting with the difference between information and meaning, although
from a different background -that of intellectual history.
Your essay deserves a thoughtful a comment which I cannot attempt here. But
Dejar Malcolm,
I think that is useful to distinguish between sense-making (Sinn in german,
sentido in spanish) and meaning (Bedeutung, significado). Meaning is
linguistic, while sense-making mixes linguistic and non linguistic
dimensions. For the social sciences, like intellectual history, this
di
Dear Mark,
I think this might be of interest for the discussion
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/oct/22/nonsense-paper-written-by-ios-autocomplete-accepted-for-conference
It's a extreme case of economic interest debunking scientific
communication.
I think it shows a problem of coding bet
Dear Fis members,
I have followed with interest the discussion and I have not intervened
until now since I am just a beginner in information theory. But from my
background in systems theory (Luhmann) and intellectual history, the
questions raised here are familiar to me. Louis has differentiated b
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