On Sunday 14 October 2007, mjs wrote:
If information is not physical, and therefore governed by physical
principles, then what is its ontological status?
why any scientific notion should have a physical ontological status?
the issue is never ontological, but just theoretical: which theory, with
Dear Giuseppe et al.,
I find the issues of meaning and interpretation very interesting, but I
think this FIS discussion needs to find some common ground if we are to get
anywhere. For example, Giuseppe wrote:
There is no purely physical status of information, since a physical
structure yields
I have to confess that I have not yet had the time to review the
paper that opened this session.
Metaphors aside, what you have described here is consistent with
information theory, is it not? Except that you have not defined
meaning. In particular, you do not suggest how a meaning might
Dear colleagues,
Answering to a couple of Jerry's questions,
Under what circumstances can the speaker's meaning or the writer's meaning
be _exact_?
Is _meaning_ a momentary impulse with potential for settling into a local
minimum in the biochemical dynamic?
A previous point could
Greetings All,
In my view meaning¹ exists (or not) exclusively within systems. It exists
to the extent that inputs (incoming information) resonate within the
structure of the system. The resonance can either reinforce the existing
architecture (confirmation), destabilize it (e.g., cognitive
Here I react to Guy's
Greetings All,
In my view meaning exists (or not) exclusively within systems. It
exists to the extent that inputs (incoming information) resonate within
the structure of the system. The resonance can either reinforce the
existing architecture (confirmation),
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Sendt: 2. oktober 2007 22:25
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Emne: Re: [Fis] Re: info meaning
