Re: [Fis] “The information is “Real” or “Mental” depending of point of view!”.

2018-04-28 Thread Søren Brier
Dear Krassimir When I cut up brains in my young days I never found any mental contend in brains. This inside outside metaphor is very interesting, but I am not sure it is productive for the advancement of knowledge. “The brain “ is our physiological model of the central nervous system and

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? OR Does the information exist without the carrier?

2018-04-28 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Dear colleagues, Not only logic, but also language is not directly and one-to-one coupled to physics. The hidden positivism of claiming priority for physics by some of us, is at odds with the linguistic turn in the philosophy of science. Furthermore, the issue is not directly related to the