Hi there Stan
SS: Info theory presumably applies to everything and anything.
GR: It was never intended to apply to anything but communication instruments.
That is sending English language down a pipe.
GR: In my opinion it still only does, I cant get my head around how say
information
Karl
I cant fault your thinking, ( with some very important things you mention) but
your comment about Shannon's view doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me,
fire-
or not fire is just one logical connective form. Just One aspect of proposition
logic connective. Imperative Logic which is
Hi there Loet
If the information exchange is provided with meaning, then this is probably
just
a qualitative aspect of entropy production. However this is not Information
Theory.
The Relation between energy and information theory is 0.693kT (k is the
Boltzmann constant and T is the temp in
At 02:05 PM 1/24/2011, Loet Leydesdorff wrote:
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Dear colleagues,
It seems to me that the relation between information and energy provides
the special case that the entropy is
Dear Gavin,
With all due respect, I would like to strongly disagree. I believe the
communications format is an historical artifact that were best put
aside. It unnecessarily constrains the application of information
theory for many useful purposes.
Most especially, the calculus that is
List:
My responses to recent posts by Karl, Stan, Joe, Loet, Gavin, John, and Bob by
the number of the digest that I rec’d. I seek to address several basic issues.
First, I would repeat my assertion from my post of Jan. 20, 2010, along with
Karl’s denial and my comments about his denials:
