Best,
Loet
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ntertain the concept mentally,
but therefore it is not yet mental. It is codified at an
above-individual level as a structure in language. Is language physical?
I doubt it: language carriers (human beings) are.
Best,
Loet
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Dear colleagues,
Not only logic, but also language is not directly and one-to-one coupled
to physics. The hidden positivism of claiming priority for physics by
some of us, is at odds with the linguistic turn in the philosophy of
science. Furthermore, the issue is not directly related to the
is
driven from the next-order level and not by its genesis.
Best,
Loet
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Dear Mark,
Can you, please, explain "transduction" in more detail? Perhaps, you can
also provide examples?
Best,
Loet
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such as "translation" which make it
possible to redirect.
Best,
Loet
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Best,
Loet
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At this point, I feel I need a ‘refresher’ on Loet Leydesdorff’s
important distinction, with reference to information, between recursion
and incursion. Loet?
When one thinks outside the box, as Bob U. will have us do, the air may
seem a little thin, for a while. However, one can soon get
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On communication:
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Dear Pedro and colleagues,
2. Eigenvectors of communication. Taking the motif from Loet, and
continuing with the above, could we say that the life cycle itself
establishes the eigenvectors of communication? It is intriguing that
maintenance, persistence, self-propagation are the essential
Scientific discourse is validated using criteria
that are coded in communication; religious disputatio is about a given
truth.
Best,
Loet
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Amster
jectivity as systems of expectations.
Best,
Loet
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another (as a heuristics) and substantive theories of
communication such as when molecules are exchanged. The exchange of
molecules, however, is very different from the exchange of ideas in
scholarly communication.
Best,
Loet
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lel Distributed Processing, Journal for the
Theory of Social Behaviour 23 (1993) 47-77.
*<http://www.leydesdorff.net/jses95/jses95.pdf> The Production of
Probabilistic Entropy in Structure/Action Contingency Relations, Journal of
Social and Evolutionary Systems 18 (1995) 339-56.
phenomenon of something deeper.
One can always ask for "something deeper". The answers, however, tend to
become religious. I am interested in operationalization and design.
Best,
Loet
Best wishes,
Mark
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Dear Terry and colleagues,
"Language is rather the special case, the most unusual communicative
adaptation to ever have evolved, and one that grows out of and depends
on informationa/semiotic capacities shared with other species and with
biology in general."
Let me try to argue in favor of
Cher Michel,
Loet thinks that "Nobody of us provide an operative framework and a
single (just one!) empirical testable prevision able to assess
"information"
I did not say this, but reacted to one of our colleagues saying this.
Best,
Loet
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constructs differ in terms of "what is distributed", that is, the
specification of "the object". L.
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Dear Jose Javier,
Thank you so much for these rich comments. I have to think a bit before
answering.
Best,
Loet
Loet Leydesdorff
Professor, University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam School of Communication Research
Thanks!
Best,
Loet
Loet Leydesdorff
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Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)
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Ass
Toward a Calculus of Redundancy:
<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3030525>
Signification, Codification, and Anticipation in Cultural Evolution
<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3030525>
Loet Leydesdorff, Mark W. Johnson, and Inga Ivano
Everybody defines information in the way he prefers: subjective, biotic, bit,
and so on.
Therefore, every study that talks about "information" is meaningless.
Dear Arturo,
The “Therefore” does not follow. It is a non-igitur. For example, Shannon’s
information theory is not necessarily
Toward a Calculus of Redundancy: <https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.02455>
The feedback arrow of expectations in knowledge-based systems
Loet Leydesdorff, Mark W. Johnson, Inga Ivanova
(Submitted on 10 Jan 2017; https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.02455 )
Whereas the generation of Shanno
many
scientific discussions are remote from everyday human experience.
Dai
On 20/12/16 08:26, Loet Leydesdorff wrote:
Dear colleagues,
A distribution contains uncertainty that can be measured in terms of bits of
information.
Alternatively: the expected information content H of a proba
specified; but the resulting puzzles are a subject for future
research.
Best,
Loet
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-Hillel once called it “information calculus”—can
carry this interdisciplinary function with precision and rigor. Otherwise, we
can only be respectful of each other’s research traditions. J
I wish you all a splendid 2017,
Loet
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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
d with
information because one then uses the same word for two different things and
thus generates confusion.
Best,
Loet
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Dear Malcolm:
To an animal about to be attacked and eaten, the meaning of an approaching
predator is quite clear.
Obviously, meaning is produced by, within, and among Observers, and not by
language.
“Quite clear” and “obviously” are no arguments. It is “as if” the animal
attributes
as well as classical physics.“ So what? This seems to me a debate within
physics without much relevance for non-physicists (e.g., economists or
linguists).
Best,
Loet
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<mailt
Dear Marcus,
When considering things in terms of "functional significance" one must confront
the need to address "meaning" in terms of both the living and the physical . .
. and their necessarily entangled nature.
“Meaning” is first a linguistic construct; its construction requires
Clustered Journal Maps <https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03779>
Loet Leydesdorff, Lutz Bornmann, and Caroline S. Wagner
Journal maps for 11,359 journals listed in the combined Journal Citation
Reports 2015 of the Science and Social Sciences Citation Indexes are
provided at www.leydesdor
the order of expectations; but only if the latter is
specified as different from the empirical order of realizations.
Best,
Loet
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ther
than realized or imagined. Hypotheses can be tested and modified.
Best,
Loet
Loet Leydesdorff, Inga Ivanova, and Mark Johnson, The Communication of
Expectations and Individual Understanding: Redundancy as Reduction of
Uncertainty, and the Processing of Meaning <http://ssrn.com/abs
iesemer, J. R. (1989). Institutional Ecology,Translations,
and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of
Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39. Social Studies of Science, 19(3), 387-420.
Whitehead, A. N. (1916). Address to the British Association at Newcastle.
Nature, 98(14 September 1916),
explained.
I don't have answers on my side. But perhaps, the strength of anticipation and
the role of models needs to be explored. Models can be entertained and enable
us to reconstruct a knowledge-based reality.
Best,
Loet
Loet Leydesdorff
Professor, University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam Sch
tion to an a priori origin, in my
opinion, is not a good idea. The formal a priori is contained in the notion of
probability (which grounds also Shannon’s entropy).
Best,
Loet
PS. Pedro: my last posting was on Sunday evening. L.
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Dear Jerry,
At the risk of being jailed by Pedro, let me point to the beauty of the example:
>From a molecular biological perspective, the assertion of “same encoding” of
>information is contrary to fact.
OK: the coding of the information is species specific; both theoretically and
Dear Pedro and colleagues,
The figure from Weaver in Loet's excellent posting leaves a few aspects
outside. The why, the what, the how long, the with whom, and other aspects
of the information phenomenon do not enter. By doing that we have
streamlined the phenomenon... and have left it ready
tion which flows linearly from the sender to
the receiver, one can expect meanings to loop, and thereby, to develop
next-order dimensionalities. New meanings generate new options and thus
redundancy. In my opinion, the task is to specify mechanisms which generate
redundancy (cf. Leydesdorff & I
epresentations, Bayesian Inferences, and Empirical Science
Studies, <http://www.leydesdorff.net/ssi92/index.htm> Social Science
Information 31 (1992, nr. 2), 213-37.
If so wished, I can provide pdf.
These questions will be refined next days...
Best--Pedro
Best,
Loet
of information.
Best,
Loet
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aspiration to one among possible research programs.
Best,
Loet
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Dear Lou and colleagues,
The reasoning is very clear. Thank you.
(…)
At this point the being has attained linguistic self-reference. The being can
say “I am the meta-name of my own naming process.”
This nexus or fixed point of self-reference can occur naturally in a being that
has
Dear Soren,
It is very strange for me to read yours as usual very learned text,
because your understanding of what it is I am trying to do is so different
from my own understanding. Though I have had great pleasure of reading you
works over the years I am not sure that you have read much of
the Piercean system
of analyzing signs can have fruitful applications in the information
sciences. However, its status is not different from a methodology or a
mathematical theory of communication.
Best,
Loet
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Amsterdam S
da sujeto de actuar en su mundo. Loet Leydesdorff, Doctor en
Sociología y profesor en el departamento de estudios de la comunicación en
la Universidad de Amsterdam, ha publicado textos de redes sociales,
filosofía de la ciencia, sociología de la innovación y cienciometría.
** apologies for cr
.
· Schutz, A. (1975). The Problem of Transcendental Intersubjectivity. In
I. Schutz (Ed.), Collected Papers III. Studies in Phenomenological Philosophy
(pp. 51-91). The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
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Amsterdam School
All worldviews begin in a miracle. No exceptions.
I agree. Nevertheless, we should, and can, minimize the miracle.
Why would one need a worldview? The whole assumption of an order as a Given
(in a Revelation) is religious. Order is always constructed (by us) and
can/needs to be explained.
Loet Leydesdorff
Professor, University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)
l...@leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/
Honorary Professor, SPRU, University of Sussex;
Guest Professor Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou; Visiting Professor, ISTIC
i (Eds.),
<http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/179986> Communication and Technology,
De Gruyter Mouton, 2015; doi:10.1515/9783110271355-032
<http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110271355-032> .
Best,
Loet
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Amsterdam
There is real communication between cells, people, organizations... as the
input is sensed (or disregarded) and judged according to boundary conditions
and to the accumulated experiential information content of the entity. The
outcome is adaptive: aiming at the self-production/self-propagation of
se of a new business model of publishing
scholarly journals that are cross-disciplinary, such as PLoS One. See for more
details my recent paper:
Loet Leydesdorff & Wouter de Nooy, Can <http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.00229> "Hot
Spots" in the Sciences Be Mapped Using the Dynamics
Self-reference is a key principle in art and humor and it may also be a key
component of the structured coherence in science Pedro and we are seeking.
Dear Joseph:
Do not count me in to the "we", please. In my opinion, these "unity of
science" principles are outdated. At issue is to
erms of
perceptions (that are steered by expectations) and at the other end by
knowledge-based interventions.
This is my second posting for this week.
Best,
Loet
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From: Robert E. Ulanowicz [mailto:u...@umces.edu]
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 7:11 PM
To: Mark Johnson; Loet Leydesdorff
Cc: Robert Ulanowicz
Subject: Re: [Fis] [Fwd: Re: Information is a linguistic description of
structures]--T...
Dear Mark & Loet,
ions.
The horizontal and vertical feedback and feedforward mechanisms (entropy
generation vs. redundancy generation in terms of increasing the number of
options) are further to be specified.
Hopefully, this contributes to our discussion.
Best,
Loet
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Professor
Dear colleagues,
Without wishing to defend Husserl, let me try to formulate what is according
to my knowledge core to his contribution. The message is that the
transcendental intersubjectivity is phenomenologically present in our
reality. He therefore returns to Descartes' (much rejected)
Dear colleagues,
I read your paper with interest. Since my interest is “information”, I focused
on this concept.
1. If I correctly understand, you define information as the 2-log of the
number of options. I would be inclined to call this the maximum information
content of an act,
are
added: instead of p(i), for example, p(ijk)
Best,
Loet
Loet Leydesdorff
Emeritus University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)
l...@leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/
Honorary Professor, SPRU, University of Sussex;
Guest Professor Zhejiang Univ
Dear John and colleagues,
So fundamentally we are talking about the same basic thing with information
and entropy.
The problem is fundamentally: the two are the same except for a constant.
Most authors attribute the dimensionality to this constant (kB).
From the perspective of
Dear Joe,
a) information is more than order; there is information in absence
(Deacon), in disorder, in incoherence as well as coherence;
The absent options provide the redundancy; that is, the complement of the
information to the maximal information [H(max)].
See also my recent
can
also be negative (“negentropy”). But how does one proceed to the measurement?
Best,
Loet
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Leydesdorff,
Your submission has been published in Sciforum.
Submission ID: sciforum-004690
Title: Mutual Redundancies and Triple Contingencies among Perspectives on
Horizons of Meaning
Author: Loet Leydesdorff
Conference: ISIS Summit Vienna 2015—The Information Society at the Crossroads
Section
and
Information Science, to:
http://figshare.com/articles/Mutual_Redundancies_and_Triple_Contingencies_am
ong_Perspectives_on_Horizons_of_Meaning/1439441
Best,
Loet
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mailto:l
Dear colleagues,
I see informational processes as essentially being proto-scientific – how is
any science not an informational process?
The sciences, in my opinion, are different in terms of what is communicated. As
Maturana noted, the communication of molecules generates a biology.
Dear colleagues,
For the measurement of interdisciplinarity, one can use, for example,
Rao-Stirling diversity which is defined as follows (Rao, 1982; Stirling,
2007):
Δ = Σij pi pj dij (1)
where dij is a disparity measure between two classes
PS. You can see the table in html. L.
Dear Joe,
As tragic events repeatedly show, their origin is often not the lack of
information in the simple sense, but the lack of structures (or structurations)
in people capable of implementing it. These structures or capacities are also
Begriffe fehlen, fuegt zur rechten Zeit ein Wort sich ein. :)
Best wishes,
Loet
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). The advantages have
to be shown in empirical research: which questions can be addressed and which
puzzles be solved?
Best,
Loet
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Analysis of Network
Data Using Information Theory. Social Networks, 13(4), 301-345.
*Theil, H. (1972). Statistical Decomposition Analysis. Amsterdam/
London: North-Holland.
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of meaning
(Husserl).
Formulas 2a (Shannon) and 2b (Kullback-Leibler) are traditional. Could you,
please, provide me with a reference for the derivation of Eq. 2c at p. 627?
Many thanks in advance.
Best,
Loet
Loet Leydesdorff
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam School
** apologies for cross-postings
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in the understanding of complex processes, e.g., information.
Loet is, perhaps, closer to Newton in his attitude to his own (Loet's)
system: Hypotheses non fingo. I'll go with Laplace.
Best wishes,
Joseph
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From: Loet Leydesdorff l...@leydesdorff.net
To: fis@listas.unizar.es
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Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 11:53 AM
Subject: RE: [Fis] [Feedforward II and Anticipation] Joseph Brenner
Dear Joseph and colleagues,
I owe you a reply
Dear colleagues,
This discussion and reading the beautiful book of Bob Logan entitled What
is information? (shortly forthcoming) made me go back to reading MacKay
(1969) once more. I cannot find the distinction that makes a difference as
it is quoted by Floridi (2005) -- and thereafter repeated
) are needed.
Because it is Monday morning, I cc to the list.
Best,
Loet
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Having a proper view of physics among the many possible is critical to
placing information theory on a sound basis. I have proposed Logic in
Reality as one way of giving meaning to the statement that energy and
information processes are non-separably related and how they are related.
Are there
Dear colleagues,
Perhaps, the rainbow argument is opening a window to constructivism. The
definitions of poverty or IQ, for example, guide us in our perceptions of
reality and the possibilities of measurement. One can measure IQ because the
concept is discursively constructed and codified. The
Dear colleagues,
Ulanowicz' measure can be considered as a measure of redundancy. We work
with it to study synergy (or lack of it) in university-industry-government
relations (since meeting with Ulanowicz at a meeting in Toronto in 2001).
See also:
Loet Leydesdorff and Inga Ivanova, Mutual
/abstract=2358791 where the derivation is both in
terms of the entropy statistics and in terms of the computation of
anticipatory systems.
(I consider email exchanges as less codified, but more explanatory.)
Best,
Loet
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Professor, University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam
The purport of metabolism is change, not only burning carbon-hydrogen
bonds.
But perhaps we might all prefer communicating is life; life is
communicating.
Dear Joseph,
In my opinion, communicating exhibits a dynamics very different from living.
For example, you have the freedom to write
invert the time axis against recursions to previous states in historical
(biological) developments. Communication of models enables discourses to
entertain expectations of future states that can be used by reflexive agents
to reconstruct current ones.
We elaborate this in: Loet Leydesdorff, Inga
Dear colleagues,
It seems to me that one can use models from biology to study inter-human
communication; but inter-human communication is not alive. The dynamics are
non-linear, but probably very different from the dynamics among molecules.
For example, counterfactual orders can be
Dear colleagues,
It seems to me that one can use models from biology to study inter-human
communication; but inter-human communication is not alive. The dynamics are
non-linear, but probably very different from the dynamics among molecules.
For example, counterfactual orders can be
S: Yes. These 'windows' are the channels for constraint imposition from
level to level -- transactions, not direct interactions -- between them.
The lower, faster acting, level provides 'data' constructed as ensemble data
by the higher level, while the higher level imposes relatively continuous
Ok, but in order to understand the emerging macro-variables of the social
structure, one must always take into account the whole cognitive
capabilities of the individual.
Dear Raquel and colleagues,
It seems to me that this misses the point that the non-linear dynamics of
the macro-system do
Loet, your criticism is very accurate, thanks. But I really think, as said
Jorge, that our sociality has to have a fairly stable structure, that is to
say, lower and upper limits that feed our mental wellbeing. It's not
fixed, of course, but individuals become integral embodiments of emotions,
and
.
Best,
Loet
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Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam
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in inter-human communications.
Inga Ivanova (a) and Loet Leydesdorff (b)
(a) Far Eastern Federal University, Department of International Education
Department of Economics and production management, Office 514, 56 Aleutskaya
st., Vladivostok 690950, Russia; inga@mail.ru .
(b
the operationalization and the
possibility of measurement in information theory. In other words,
information theory then becomes only philosophy.
Best,
Loet
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Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX
. 143 ff.). Is that
methodologically the same argument? I assume so. Or have you taken these
measurement issues also further?
Best,
Loet
Loet Leydesdorff
Professor, University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR),
Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam.
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How does one measure the synergy among three discourses?
That is an interesting question within information theory (as part of both
science and philosophy).
Best,
Loet
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From: fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] On
Behalf Of Pedro C.
of Processing Meaning
Does the issue return in the book? Our argument is that this mutual
information is a redundancy and can then be integrated into the framework
of the mathematical theory of communication.
Best wishes,
Loet
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Dear colleagues,
It seems to me that this notion of constraint can be compared with
Maturana's structural coupling.
How would one operationalize it in terms of information theory? The
constraint is different from a condition, because a conditional
probability distribution also implies
Mutual Redundancies in Inter-human Communication Systems:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.6849
Steps Towards a Calculus of Processing Meaning
Loet Leydesdorff and Inga A. Ivanova
Assuming that meaning cannot be communicated, we extend Shannon's
mathematical theory of communication
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