Re: [Fis] Derrida's diferAnce and Kolmogorov's Information Operator

2010-02-23 Thread joe.bren...@bluewin.ch
@listas.unizar.es Objet: Re: [Fis] Derrida's diferAnce and Kolmogorov's Information Operator Dear Joseph - once again your post was most stimulating, provocative and enjoyable. Kolmogorov's definition of information that you quote is most interesting but like Shannon's definition incorporates

Re: [Fis] Derrida's diferAnce and Kolmogorov's Information Operator

2010-02-23 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Of joe.bren...@bluewin.ch Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 7:33 PM To: lo...@physics.utoronto.ca Cc: fis Subject: Re: [Fis] Derrida's diferAnce and Kolmogorov's Information Operator Dear Bob, Loet, Gyuri and All, Progress?! Between Bob, Loet, and something of my logical approach, I see the “art

Re: [Fis] Derrida's diferAnce and Kolmogorov's Information Operator

2010-02-22 Thread Darvas Gyorgy
Dear Joe, Dear FISers, I would like to add a short remark. In fact, I repeat a fact that I mentioned several times in the past. We often miss to list a very simple form of information among the others, namely that, what I call information on existence. This is a double-valued property, with the

Re: [Fis] Derrida's diferAnce and Kolmogorov's Information Operator

2010-02-22 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
At the end of all this, then, one has, starting from the lowest level: !--[if !supportLists]--a) !--[endif]--information as what is processed by a computer; !--[if !supportLists]--b) !--[endif]--information as a scalar quantity of uncertainty removed, the entropy/negentropy picture;

Re: [Fis] Derrida's diferAnce and Kolmogorov's Information Operator

2010-02-22 Thread bob logan
Dear Joseph - once again your post was most stimulating, provocative and enjoyable. Kolmogorov's definition of information that you quote is most interesting but like Shannon's definition incorporates the notion that information is a quantitative concept that can be measured. The Bateson

[Fis] Derrida's diferAnce and Kolmogorov's Information Operator

2010-02-21 Thread joe.bren...@bluewin.ch
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