Re: [Fis] Emerging Synthesis?

2009-01-23 Thread Robert Ulanowicz
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

Re: [Fis] Emerging Synthesis?

2009-01-23 Thread joe.bren...@bluewin.ch
] Emerging Synthesis? 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

Re: [Fis] Emerging Synthesis?

2009-01-17 Thread Stanley Salthe
...@listas.unizar.es] On Behalf Of Pedro C. Marijuan Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 2:46 PM To: fis Subject: Re: [Fis] Emerging Synthesis? Dear Gordana and Loet, This is what the editors of the book literally say: The third main idea is that Coordination Dynamics deals with informational quantities

Re: [Fis] Emerging Synthesis?

2009-01-16 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
://www.leydesdorff.net/ http://www.leydesdorff.net/ _ From: fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] On Behalf Of Pedro C. Marijuan Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 2:46 PM To: fis Subject: Re: [Fis] Emerging Synthesis? Dear Gordana and Loet, This is what the editors

Re: [Fis] Emerging Synthesis?

2009-01-16 Thread Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
: den 16 januari 2009 19:47 To: 'Pedro C. Marijuan'; 'fis' Subject: Re: [Fis] Emerging Synthesis? Dear Gordana, Pedro, and colleagues, That would be unfortunate because a reduction of the information-theoretical approach to physics unnecessarily sacrifices explanatory power. (As would by the way

Re: [Fis] Emerging Synthesis?

2009-01-16 Thread joe.bren...@bluewin.ch
...@aragon.es, fisfis@listas.unizar.es Objet: Re: [Fis] Emerging Synthesis? v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);} -- Dear Loet, I agree with you. The goal is not to reduce everything

[Fis] Emerging Synthesis?

2009-01-15 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear FIS colleagues, Notwithstanding the delay, Happy New Year to All! Although the year has not started terrificly (there have been negative news regarding the planned conference in Vienna, and also other organizing initiatives seem to be in stand by), it does not mean that things will go

Re: [Fis] Emerging Synthesis?

2009-01-15 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
3. Thereafter, the coordination dynamics deals with informational quantities that transcend the medium through which the parts communicate. The binding or coupling is mediated by information and not by conventional forces (or not only) But isn't that exchange of information carrier the way