Re: [Fis] Information-as-Process

2014-12-08 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Dear colleagues, Shannon’s information theory can be considered as a calculus because it allows for the dynamic extension. Theil (1972)—Statistical decomposition analysis (North Holland)—distinguished between static and dynamic information measures. In addition to Shannon’s statical H, one

Re: [Fis] Information-as-Process

2014-12-08 Thread Steven Ericsson-Zenith
I am a little mystified by your assertion of "information as process." What, exactly, is this and how does it differ fro information in general (Shannon). Is it related to Whitehead's process notions? In terms of neuroscience it is important to move away from connectionism and modern computational