Re: [Fis] Concluding the Lecture?

2015-01-31 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Dear Bob (and colleagues), It seems to me that you drive the problem home by signaling that the use of the word “information” is very loose in many of our debates. Actually, you argue – if I correctly understand – that this is rich: words only obtain meaning within a sentence, and one can

Re: [Fis] Fwd: Re: Concluding the Lecture?

2015-01-31 Thread Terrence W. DEACON
Hi Joseph, Indeed there is much more to discuss than I could include in this already too long discussion paper. The related absence issues are of course critical to my thinking. I value your continued feedback on these issues as well. I think you do a quite adequate job of restating the

Re: [Fis] Concluding the Lecture?

2015-01-31 Thread Terrence W. DEACON
Hi Loet, I love your comment about the two Chinese terms, but I hope you haven't come away with the impression that I have remained in the realm of Shannon information. I have merely tried to take a small cautious step away from “sjin sji” and toward “tsjin bao” -- recognizing that there is much

[Fis] summit reminder

2015-01-31 Thread Wolfgang Hofkirchner
dear friends, just a remark and reminder. terry will have his talk at our summit on the opening day and bob will facilitate the discussion. the opening day is the 3rd of june, 2015. bob will have the last talk of the summit on the 7th of june, on the boat trip. so you are welcome to attend