d in different value
systems and at different levels of granularity.
Best,
Gordana Dodig Crnkovic
http://www.idt.mdh.se/personal/gdc/
James N Rose wrote:
I would like to challenge this as a category error.
Integrity does not have to be linked with ethics
or morals.
A cannibal who rem
Dear Loet,
I agree with you.
The goal is not to reduce everything to physics and to stay at elementary
particle level.
But the good thing is to be able to go down to elementary particle level with
the same principle.
How to build up understanding of the whole architecture of existing things,
Dear all,
Regarding the very interesting discussion of it from bit and vice versa.
Usually each level of information processing (semantic, algorithmic,
implementational) presupposes some it in which bit is implemented. In
computing, recursions must have a bottom.
Could it be the case that on
.
Best,
Gordana
Best wishes,
Gordana
From: Rafael Capurro [mailto:raf...@capurro.de]
Sent: den 25 september 2010 11:55
To: Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
Cc: Loet Leydesdorff; 'Joseph Brenner'; 'Stanley N Salthe'; fis@listas.unizar.es
Subject: Re: [Fis] Revisiting the Fluctuon Model
dear Gordana
just
Dear Colleagues,
Relating information with intelligence seems to me important for several
reasons. I will try to suggest that intelligence might be a good conceptual
tool if we want to anchor our understanding of information and knowledge in the
natural world.
Yixin mentions the problem of
, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
gordana.dodig-crnko...@mdh.se wrote:
I suppose semioticians are interested in an individual human’s sense-making in
a context of human society.
Or perhaps a social animal’s sense making.
What I think about is how life forms organize to produce increasingly
Hello FIS colleagues,
I like Igor's suggestion:
“Information is heterogeneity, stable for some definite time”.
A simpler general version is Bateson's:
Information is the difference that makes the difference
Best wishes,
Gordana
Gordana Dodig
are claiming.
It seems to me, given spatiotemporal distance big enough, one does not see such
phenomena which generate/destroy information. Physics builds on laws of
conservation.
Best,
Gordana
Dr Dr Gordana Dodig Crnkovic,
Associate Professor
Dear Stan,
Ø The key is whether the trait involved can be modeled; on these grounds it
has not yet been shown that 'qualia' can be generalized beyond the human
experience, yet even a child can see, for example, that a mother hen is very
unhappy when her chicks are threatened.
Being a
Hello FIS,
On mentioning of Braitenberg’s book “Information - der Geist in der Natur”,
Søren Brier made me aware of an older work in a similar spirit -
Danish physicist’s Hans Christian Ørsted’s (1777-1851) “The soul in nature”,
here digitalized by Google:
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Gordana Dodig Crnkovic,
Associate Professor
Head of the Computer Science and Networks Department School of Innovation,
Design and Engineering Mälardalen University Sweden http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/~gdc/
Organizer of the Symposium on Natural/Unconventional Computing, the Turing
Centenary
Hi All,
One way of looking at the question of curriculum would be from the point of
view of what already exists
of education in the Foundations of Information.
Are there any courses which might be a part of such a curriculum?
To start with I can tell about the course I have, which does not
Dear Marcin,
To me the idea about FIS web page with resources for teaching about Foundations
of Information is a right step forward.
That is also a way for the community as a whole to become more visible and
formally established, and a means to plant
new ideas into generations of future
Dear Kevin and FIS,
Searching for Andrei's articles, I found
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0906/0906.4952.pdf
and in the abstract there is a claim:
Therefore, mental states, during perception cognition of ambiguous figures,
follow quantum mechanics.
I am not an expert by any means but I
Dear Pedro and FIS colleagues,
When connecting information to physics, I believe you may like the following
view, from the abstract of an invited article
for a special issue of the journal Information on Information and Energy/Matter
(currently in review):
INFORMATION PHYSICS—TOWARDS A NEW
Dear Hector,
This might be a good way, Terry Deacon presenting his book:
http://fora.tv/2012/04/18/Incomplete_Nature_How_Mind_Emerged_From_Matter
What I find fascinating with this book is the whole dynamical framework,
from thermodynamics, to morphodynamics and teleodynamics.
See also:
Dear Bruno and FIS colleagues,
Here are my three comments on the current discussion:
(1)
It seems to me that one thing should be taken into account: computationalism is
not a monolithic body of theory,
and old approaches should not be mixed with the current ones.
Here is what Matthias Scheutz
[mailto:u...@umces.edu]
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Quoting Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic gordana.dodig-crnko...@mdh.se:
2. Whatever changes in the states
Dear Joseph and FIS colleagues,
I will not argue here for or against computationalism (digital mechanism),
because I do not understand how complex biological, cognitive and social
processes can be computable, if no algorithm can be written for them. I speak
of the processes themselves, not
Dear Gyorgy, Pedro, Stan, Joe, Karl, Igor, and other FIS colleagues,
With thankfulness for all of your enlightening comments
which strengthen my feeling that there is a lot of exciting work in front of us,
and that we witness all but the end of science,
I wish you all
A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013!
Dear colleagues,
Could it be so that Philosophy of Statistical Mechanics does not make much
sense without Philosophy of Cognition
and philosophy of the rest?
Could it be so that what we need is Natural Philosophy as it was before it has
fallen apart into specialist sciences?
With best
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Could it possibly be imagined as a circular motion
(bottom-up--top-down—and-back-again)?
Just a thought.
All the best,
Gordana
http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/~gdc/http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/%7Egdc/
From: Loet Leydesdorff l...@leydesdorff.netmailto:l...@leydesdorff.net
Date: Saturday, November 2, 2013
the best,
Gordana
http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/~gdc/http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/%7Egdc/
From: Joseph Brenner joe.bren...@bluewin.chmailto:joe.bren...@bluewin.ch
Reply-To: Joseph Brenner joe.bren...@bluewin.chmailto:joe.bren...@bluewin.ch
Date: Saturday, November 2, 2013 5:40 PM
To: Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
Dear colleagues,
Encouraged by your recent exchanges, which show that the topic of Hans' New
Year Lecture is
far from exhausted, I would like to think a bit more on the fundamental change
from Frequentist to Bayesian statistics. Hans writes:
“On the one hand each individual agent assembles the
John,
Ideas from the following article may also be of interest in this context:
Yingxu Wang (2003) On Cognitive Informatics, Brain and Mind, Volume 4, Issue
2, pp 151-167
http://www2.enel.ucalgary.ca/IJCINI/ICfCI/JBM-Vol4-No2-CI.pdf
All the best,
Gordana
From: John Collier
Sensing: Cell-to-Cell
Communication in Bacteria. Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology, 21,
319–346.
http://www.ait.gu.se/kontaktaoss/personal/gordana-dodig-crnkovic
http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/~gdc/
From: Jeremy Sherman
mindreadersdiction...@gmail.commailto:mindreadersdiction
To me the miracle is not so much order, as it is relation, and thus as Loet
says "order is always constructed (by us)"-
but the miracle is the very existence of anything (us, the rest of the
universe).
Why there is something rather than nothing (that would be much simpler)?
To me miracle is how
Relation to
Meaning<http://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues/information_meaning/>,
R. Logan Ed., 2012 3(2), 204-218
Best,
Gordana
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amended to read as follows:
4. Information flows are essential organizers of life's self-and
hetero-production processes--anticipating, shaping, and mixing up with the
accompanying energy flows. These processes follow a non-binary,
non-truth-functional logic.
Criticisms welcome.
Best w
scientific-philosophical practice and for social governance.
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Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Chalmers University of Technology
School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Mälardalen Uni
intrinsic tendencies (what are
>they?) is symmetry. Is agency a principle of conservation which
>unfolds the symmetry between conserved and non-conserved dimensions?
>That means we are in a symmetry: "a pattern that connects" - to quote
>Bateson.
>
>Personally, I find th
Dear All,
In the discussion about the nature of science and the role of quantitative and
qualitative methods I would like to add the following statement:
Logic is the science of rational thinking or reasoning.
http://www.math-inst.hu/~nemeti/whatislogic.html
Logic is not a quantitative science.
Dear Francesco,
Thank you so much for your enlightening post on logic that is rising the topic
one level up.
You refer to Hegel who recognised complementary relationship between quality,
quantity and their synthesis – measure, which is very central for the current
discussion.
I made English
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Chalmers University of Technology
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Hello Terry, Sung, FIS colleagues
There is a notion of “body language”.
Perhaps it might be possible to develop a general theory of language that can
take into account bacteria and dogs (according to Nature
http://www.nature.com/news/dogs-can-tell-when-praise-is-sincere-1.20514) as
well as
In agreement with Sung I see the value of “language metaphor" that can be
applied to physical objects when they are used for communication.
Description of “chemical language” used by bacteria can be found e.g. here
http://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/15/12/1468.full.pdfStephan and number of
other
ifully
visualised and analysable models:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/NBT07.pdf
Best wishes,
Gordana
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