Dear FISers,
I have heartily welcomed Pedro's initiative to work out some principles of
information definition quest. But the upsetting discussion unrolled around
the issue pushes me to restrain my support for the Pedro's proposal. The
problem (in my understanding) is that FIS discussants are
Dear colleagues
In order to know the relations between living organisms and their
environment, I use Brillouin's formula (and its fundamental
thermodynamical signification) to compute the information contained in
biological structures and the probability of events.
It is written in french,
Dear Terry and FIS colleagues,
I think you make a good point. I was reminded on the problems my
research group has found in the development of our "Sociotype project",
cooperating with social science groups and psychologists. The lack of
communication in between those closer to formal fields
Dear Joseph and All,
Just to make my point on “New Kind of Science” clear.
I am not saying that we should attempt Wolfram’s New Kind of Science (NKS)
applied to information studies.
In the spirit of inclusiveness, thinking primarily about what NKS did achieve,
instead of what it did not,
I
Dear Gordana and Friends,
In 2002, the cybernetician Stephen Wolfram published a massive book with the
title, A New Kind of Science. For me, it was not: it was an attempt to explain
the simplest, quasi-non-living structures of living systems by recourse to
simple algorithms and a multitude of
Dear Colleagues,
Following this interesting and enlightening discussion I have got several
thoughts that I would like to share with you. First of all it is a great
pleasure to read variety of contributions, deep thoughts and insights, profound
questions as well. This list so very often
