Krippendorff (2009a) reports about Ashby
(1969), one of us embraced this potentially negative sign in the mutual
information in three dimensions as an indicator of potential reduction of
uncertainty in Triple-Helix configurations once it was brought to his
attention by Robert Ulanowicz, who had used
Quoting John Collier colli...@ukzn.ac.za:
As I have tried to argue above, to avoid reductionism in reality as
opposed to in logic and mathematics I think we need the additional
condition of dissipation (what I call nonHamiltonian mechanics
elsewhere -- the usual condition of conservation
Dear Pedro,
Roman Littlefield is coming out with a volume along those lines
entitled Beyond Mechanism
http://www.academia.edu/1141907/Beyond_Mechanism_Putting_Life_Back_Into_Biology
As for our Chinese colleagues, I find them more open to non-mechanical
scenarios than are anglophones. All
Quoting Pedro C. Marijuan pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es:
First, following Gould's arguments on replaying life's tape, what
would happen if we could replay the sciences' tape? Would we obtain a
similar map of the sciences? Would we finally obtain the same ways of
thinking visions of the world? I
Dear Pedro,
You bring up an important item in regard to the autogen. It is a
point of departure between myself and Terry. While his narrative is
biomolecular, mine is in terms of configurations of processes. The
difference is dimensional (mass vs mass/time), and dimensions are
quite
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Robin Faichney
ro...@robinfaichney.orgwrote:
Conservation of information can be translated as
meaning that physical laws do not break down, and the state of
affairs at one time can be considered encoded in the state of
affairs at another
Dear Gavin,
With all due respect, I would like to strongly disagree. I believe the
communications format is an historical artifact that were best put
aside. It unnecessarily constrains the application of information
theory for many useful purposes.
Most especially, the calculus that is
Dear All:
At the risk of being seen as the one who tries to throw a monkey
wrench into the fine discussion you all are having, I would like to
mention that the foregoing thread had focused entirely on alternatives
among monist scenarios.
I see the world as dual, not in the sense of
Quoting Stanley N Salthe ssal...@binghamton.edu:
Bob -- I think that 'coupling over such a disparity in scale' is not really
going on differently in biology either. The only messages that could
'percolate upwards' in a material system would be those the higher level(s)
are prepared to
Quoting Pedro C. Marijuan pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es:
The ratio that Bob Ulanowicz has pointed out in the self-organization
processes of ecosystems looks very important. Is it an informational
signature that we can find in other fields (eg, competing companies,
financial flows, neurodynamic
Quoting Pedro C. Marijuan pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es:
About the formalism to deal with entropies: How does the treatment of
entropies by Michael in his Adaptability Theory --extended by the
fluctuon model into the microphysical realm-- relate with the
contemporary quantum information theory,
Dear Guy,
I, too , was enthused by Dieter's emphasis on process, although I
don't quite share your concern about neglecting structural pattern. As
an ecologist, I spent my career studying *patterns of processes*,
i.e., networks of ecological interactions. Furthermore the information
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, bob logan wrote:
Stanley -I have often had this thought. Better to compete on the football
pitch than the battlefield. The term hero is used for those that excel in
either form of battle. Bob
Bob, It's not that I object to (American) football as an ersatz for
warfare.
Dear Jorge and Fis members:
The method is intriguing, but rather ad-hoc.
I and colleagues in marine science have directly used
information-theoretic indexes to evaluate the dynamically most
important nodes and links in a quantified network. I'm convinced it
could be applied as well to
Quoting Stanley Salthe ssal...@binghamton.edu:
Joseph --
Dear Friends,
-snip-
1.But the good thing is to be able to go down to elementary
particle level with the same principle. My Logic in Reality does
exactly that, where the principle is one of dynamic opposition
which has the
As Ladyman and Ross write, in the book that I learned about in this group,
we radically need to change our metaphysics about what a thing is, or
rather is not, and what patterns can be understood as the active
entities of both knowledge and existence.
It wasn't clear to me whether this was Joe or
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Pedro Marijuan wrote:
Dear Igor and colleagues,
Your question is fascinating, perhaps at the time being rather puzzling or
even un-answerable...
Pedro, Yes, unanswerable in the absolute sense, but there are some
quantitative approximations that yield helpful insights.
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Guy A Hoelzer wrote:
I doubt we disagree in substance here, but I would take issue with the
statement that there are no laws for biology in the same sense as the
laws of physics, because I think the laws of physics apply in all
realms. In other words, the laws of physics
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