Cari colleghi,
distinguere, separare o, peggio, contrapporre è pericoloso e contrasta con
l'armonia meravigliosa che governa ll mondo. A PRESCINDERE CHE SI CREDA O
MENO in una in una Intelligenza trascendente la natura umana (io, ad
esempio, credo in Dio che non finisce mai di stupirci e sorprender
Dear John and Stan,
Your both hierarchies are good only if you believe in God.
But this is believe, not science.
Sorry, nothing personal!
Friendly regards
Krassimir
From: John Collier
Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 5:02 PM
To: Stanley N Salthe ; fis
Subject: Re: [Fis] Philosophy, Computing, and
Not quite the same hierarchy, but similar:
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It from bit is just information, which is fundamental, on Seth Lloyd’s
computational view of nature. Paul Davies and some other physicists agree with
this.
Chemical information is negentropic, and hierarchical in mo
Pedro -- Your list:
physical, biological, social, and Informational
is implicitly a hierarchy -- in fact, a subsumptive hierarchy, with the
physical subsuming the biological and the biological subsuming the social.
But where should information appear? Following Wheeler, we should have:
{inform
Thanks, Ken. I think your previous message and this one are drawing sort
of the border-lines of the discussion. Achieving a comprehensive view on
the interrelationship between computation and information is an
essential matter. In my opinion, and following the Vienna discussions,
whenever life
