Dear colleagues in FIS
In connection with the coming FIS Conference in Moscow (May 2013) permit me
to introduce myself as a geographer looking to combine information from
natural and social sciences on the Earth envelop where peoples of different
cultures live and change their physical environment
Dear Pedro and FIS people,
Thank you, Pedro, for adding Chris, Magnus and me to your list and for
your words about the DTMD 2013 workshop at the Open University. We are
pleased that you found it good, and we in turn are very grateful for
your extremely valuable participation as a keynote speak
Bill,
if you go to
http://www.capurro.de/info5.html
you will find on p. 225 ff my interpretation of MacKay's information
concept in the context of other theories of that time
See particularly footnote 440: "Information: that which determines form"
and "that which justifies representational activi
Original Message
Subject:information between living and nonliving circle
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:24:37 +0800
From: Xueshan Yan
Reply-To: y...@pku.edu.cn
Organization: CHINAPKU
To: Pedro C. Marijuán
CC: Wolfgang Hofkirchner
Dear Pedro,
The follo
Dear Xueshan - re Nalewajski's conjecture that molecular systems have
information I am skeptical. The word information originated with the idea of
forming the mind according to the OED. Information as far as I am concerned
requires a sentient being to receive and understand it. Molecules and ato
Bob -- Your outline here compares closely with a recent one by Howard
Pattee. I think maybe we can call this the 'standard view ' from science.
I am not satisfied with this view, largely on evolutionary (and
materialist) grounds. Where did information come from?
Well, I think it must have origi
Bob, Xueshan, others,
This is an issue that I think more terminological than anything else, and
I think that there is no correct answer. The problem is more to find the
relations between different uses of information that are current in
science
(
Kinds of Information in Scientific Use. 2011. cogn