Dear FISers:
A short notice to add to Shu-Kun's info:
The journal Symmetry: Culture and Science
http://symmetry.hu/aus_journal_content_abs.html
covers the topics asymmetry too (or mainly?)
and published two entropy related special issues recently:
Volume 16, Number 1, pages 1-112 (2005)
At 11:53 PM 2009/11/15, James Rose wrote:
May I make some comments for clarification of the notion that
(differential) information is equatable (Identical?) with asymmetry,?
Bateson did indeed bring in the distilled meme that information is the
difference that makes a difference. Asymmetry
The inventor of the concept of Information as Asymmetry is
Michael Leyton in his enormous book 640 pages
Symmetry,Causality, Mind (MIT Press, 1992).
Furthermore: Leyton invented the concept of the
causal basis of information.
In addition, Leyton's book A Generative Theory of Shape
in Springer
Thanks. I still maintain my student carried this idea much further then
anyone before.
As I said before, priority in such issues issues is very hard to
establish. I think that Michael Scriven was well ahead on these ideas. He
is now known as Tal Scriven. His ideas date much earlier than 1992, to
