Re: [Fis] Relating QI to other Information Theories

2006-06-11 Thread Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
Dear colleagues, I have two comments on the recent discussion. Michael Devereux made a good point: “I’m sure, as you say, Andrei, that we must definitively specify information by a precise mathematical formulation, if we expect to make any progress. But, I think the Shannon and von Neumann for

Re: [Fis] Reply to Ted Goranson: levels of description

2006-06-11 Thread Ted Goranson
John Collier wrote on 6/10/06: At 05:35 PM 6/10/2006, Stanley N. Salthe wrote: John said: > Hmm. You should read Barwise and Seligman, Information Flow... ... It depends what you mean by logic. The issue is too complicated to get into here and now, but the simple answer is that there is no

[Fis] Objective and Perceptual Realities and probabilities

2006-06-11 Thread Arne Kjellman
Dear members of List:   To Marcin I would say: The central question par excellence to any scientist/modeller – is as to whether human knowing can justify its circumstantial and confusing dualistic elaboration of two separate domains (reality and the presumed knowledge of it) or if we can d