Dear All,
I particularly approve of theJose's comment that:
" following D. Hofstadter, H. von Foerster, N. Luhmann and others we
could think of a agent/observer as a self-referential loop."
That is because I show that such loops occur at the locus of control of
biological systems where the
Dear Loet,
I mean to be analytical too. The Pythonesque nature of my questioning leads
naturally to recursion: What is the meaning of meaning? There's a logic in the
recursion - Peirce, Spencer-Brown, Leibnitz, Lou Kauffman... and you have
probed this.
Were you or I to be part of a recursive
Dear Mark:
Do we want to defend a definition of meaning which is tied to
scientific practice as we know it? Would that be too narrow? Ours may
not be the only way of doing science...
I meant my remarks analytically. You provide them with a normative turn
as defensive against alternative ways
