Dear FISers,
A hot discussion indeed...
We can all agree that perspectives on information depend on the context.
Physics, mathematics, thermodynamics, biology, psychology, philosophy, AI, ...
But these many contexts have a common backbone: They are part of the evolution
of our universe and of
Dear Pedro,
" Rafael and Michel are talking more about principles as general
concepts". It is not exactly what I meant, because the general
principles (for example the principle of identity or the principle of
non-contradiction) are not exactly "concepts".
Yet I agree with "the connectio
Dear FIS,
coming back to the subject of *Mendel and garden peas*, let me present to
you some results of my research into basic rules – that appear to govern
Nature – that can be observed on experiments with abstract objects (as
pointed out in my last post, in our scientific progress we do not ne
Dear FISers,
Hi!
...a very hot discussion...
I think that it is not useful to talk about Aristotle, Plato and Ortega y
Gasset, it the modern context of information... their phylosophical, not
scientific approach, although marvelous, does not provide insights in a purely
scientific issue such th
Dear Pedro,
thanks for food for thought. When talking about communication we should
not forget that Wiener defines cybernetics as "the theory of messages"
(not: as the theory of information) (Human use of human beings, London
1989, p. 15, p. 77 "cybernetics, or the theory of messages" et passi
Dear FISers,
I also agree with Ji and John Torday about the tight relationship
between information and communication. Actually Principle 5 was stating
: "Communication/information exchanges among adaptive life-cycles
underlie the complexity of biological organizations at all scales."
However,
