Re: [Fis] The notion of meaning... (impredicativity)

2009-04-02 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Thanks, Christophe. These days I am involved in a paper on prokaryotic intelligence, and have laterally approached the problem of cellular meaning. I am copying a fragment below (not corrected yet). Rosen's impredicativity looks to me an important concept to clarify things. However, rather

Re: [Fis] The notion of meaning... (impredicativity)

2009-04-02 Thread Christophe Menant
Real interesting, Pedro. Regarding impredicativity, I was quite simply expecting quantum mechanics to answer (encapsulate) the question. But I don’t know really if unpicturability of enzyme function can somehow hooked at quantum randomness. When you write that “living cells are enacting a new

Re: [Fis] The notion of meaning... (impredicativity)

2009-04-02 Thread Giuseppe Longo
On Thursday 02 April 2009, Pedro C. Marijuan wrote: It conduces to realizing that the information processing of living cells is not of the same class than the processes of formal, predicative nature (computation). Why computational processes should be necessarely predicative? Girard's Type

Re: [Fis] FW: Denumerability of information (II)

2009-04-02 Thread Rafael Capurro
Christophe I completely agree you. Interpretation is the key issue when talking i.e. interpreting... information. The concept of agent should be carefully analyzed. Then pragmatics (and not only Syntax and Semantics) becomes also a key issue, particularly in case of living agents when the