Re: [Fis] The shadows are real !!!

------ *From:* Fis on behalf of John Collier *Sent:* Sunday, February 25, 2018 2:51 PM *To:* fis@listas.unizar.es *Subject:* Re: [Fis] The shadows are real !!! Daer Krassimir, List I basically support wh

Re: [Fis] The shadows are real !!!

n above? The way starts from philosophical reasoning  and only some times ends in mathematical formal explanations. Friendly greetings Krassimir ___ Fis mailing list Fis@listas.unizar.es http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis -- John Col

Re: [Fis] Idealism and Materialism

Visiting Fellow, Birkbeck <http://www.bbk.ac.uk/>, University of London; http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en -- Original Message -- From: "John Collier" mailto:ag...@ncf.ca>> To: fis@listas.unizar.es <mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es> Sent: 11/5/2

Re: [Fis] Idealism and Materialism

tas.unizar.es http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis _______ Fis mailing list Fis@listas.unizar.es http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis -- John Collier Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Associate Philosophy, University

Re: [Fis] TR: Principles of IS

homogeneous realms for conceptual development, these information principles would appear as a sort of "portals" that connect with essential topics of other disciplines in the different organization layers, but at the same time they should try to be consistent with each other and provi

Re: [Fis] Causation is transfer of information

. Personally, I don’t have the patience for it. John Collier Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Associate Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal http://web.ncf.ca/collier From: Hector Zenil [mailto:hzen...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, 30 March 2017 10:48 AM To: John Collier ; fis Subject: Re

Re: [Fis] Causation is transfer of information

presentation) Information Originates in Symmetry Breaking<http://web.ncf.ca/collier/papers/infsym.pdf> (Symmetry 1996). I adopt what I call dynamical realism, that anything that is real is either dynamical or interpretable in dynamical terms. Not everyone will agree. John Collier Emeritus Pr

Re: [Fis] Causation is transfer of information

Interesting papers. I have a few remarks, but no time right now. I heartily agree with your general point. John Collier Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Associate Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal http://web.ncf.ca/collier From: Hector Zenil [mailto:hzen...@gmail.com] Sent

[Fis] Causation is transfer of information

ers/causinf.pdf> In Howard Sankey (ed) Causation, Natural Laws and Explanation (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1999) Information is a very powerful concept. It is a shame to restrict oneself to only a part of its possible applications. John Collier Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Associate Phil

Re: [Fis] non-living objects COULD NOT “exchange information”

John Collier Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Associate Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal http://web.ncf.ca/collier From: John Collier Sent: Tuesday, 28 March 2017 9:39 AM To: 'darvasg' Subject: RE: [Fis] non-living objects COULD NOT “exchange information” I wrote this

Re: [Fis] Fis Digest, Vol 33, Issue 41: On the relation between information and meaning

Dear folks, I feel I should mention our book on structural realism, Every Thing Must Go, which argues that it is only relations and not things in themselves that really exist, according to the best most recent physics. On this account, looking for more is a mug's game. There are skeptical objec

Re: [Fis] What is information? and What is life?

Dear List, I agree with Terry that we should not be bound by our own partial theories. We need an integrated view of information that shows its relations in all of its various forms. There is a family resemblance in the ways it is used, and some sort of taxonomy can be constructed. I recommend

[Fis] BBC Documentaries 2016: The Joy of Data [FULL BBC SCIENCE DOCUMENTARY]

Not bad. Certainly entertaining. I got this link through Luciano Floridi, who is one of the interviewees. I think it is pretty high quality, though I doubt that anyone here will be surprised by anything in it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgp7BIBtPhk John Collier Emeritus Professor and

Re: [Fis] A provocative issue

there are no constraints. I don’t see how that could be true in a world that has regularities. John Collier Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Associate Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal http://web.ncf.ca/collier From: Fis [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] On Behalf Of Bob Logan Sent

Re: [Fis] A provocative issue

measure is of the information capacity of a channel. There are better ways to define the information in a real situation (e.g., the computational notion of information), but Shannon’s approach can be adapted to give the same result with some relatively intuitive assumptions. John Collier

Re: [Fis] Fwd: about consciousness an Euclidean n-space

Some remarks on Arturo’s comment below. John Collier Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Associate Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal http://web.ncf.ca/collier From: Fis [fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] on behalf of tozziart...@libero.it [tozziart...@libero.it] Sent: December 6, 2016 4

Re: [Fis] Is quantum information the basis of spacetime?

new to the problem of the direction of time." John Collier Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Associate Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal http://web.ncf.ca/collier > -Original Message- > From: Fis [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] On Behalf Of Bruno Marchal >

Re: [Fis] Is quantum information the basis of spacetime?

about the spacetime structure within the boundary. That seems to me that it is like smoke to fire: smoke doesn’t mean fire, despite the connection. John Collier Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Associate Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal http://web.ncf.ca/collier From: Fis [mailto:fi

[Fis] Is quantum information the basis of spacetime?

Apparently some physicists think so. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tangled-up-in-spacetime/?WT.mc_id=SA_WR_20161102 John Collier Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Associate Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal http://web.ncf.ca/collier

Re: [Fis] Scientific communication (from Mark)

The empiricist Berkeley, with his requirement of God's observation, is an objective idealism, but nominalistic nonetheless, in line with the other British Empiricists of his era. John Collier Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Associate Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal http:

Re: [Fis] Essential Core?

Comment inserted below yours. John Collier Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Associate University of KwaZulu-Natal http://web.ncf.ca/collier From: Fis [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] On Behalf Of Michel Godron Sent: Friday, 08 July 2016 4:52 PM To: fis@listas.unizar.es; l

Re: [Fis] Progress on black hole information paradox

That is insulting. Please be more careful in the future. John Collier Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Associate University of KwaZulu-Natal http://web.ncf.ca/collier From: Krassimir Markov [mailto:mar...@foibg.com] Sent: Tuesday, 28 June 2016 7:00 PM To: John Collier ; fis Subject: Re

Re: [Fis] Progress on black hole information paradox

That is one limited way to think of information . It is reasonably precise, which is an advantage. But ignores and in fact rules out other usages that share important basic properties, suggesting a unified notion that goes well beyond the narrow usage you prefer, Krassimir. John Collier

[Fis] Progress on black hole information paradox

/08/soft-hairs-help-resolve-the-black-hole-information-paradox John Collier Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Associate University of KwaZulu-Natal http://web.ncf.ca/collier ___ Fis mailing list Fis@listas.unizar.es http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin

Re: [Fis] Fw: "Mechanical Information" in DNA

doubtful at best that the mechanical information referred to is mechanicist. John Collier Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Associate University of KwaZulu-Natal http://web.ncf.ca/collier From: Fis [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] On Behalf Of Joseph Brenner Sent: Thursday, 09 June 2016 11:10

[Fis] "Mechanical Information" in DNA

A previously hypothesized "second layer" of information in DNA may have been isolated. http://phys.org/news/2016-06-layer-dna.html John Collier Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Associate University of KwaZulu-Natal http://web.ncf.

Re: [Fis] Fw: Clarifying Posting. Speculative Realism

in the Review of Metaphysics starting in the mid-50s.) John Collier Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Associate University of KwaZulu-Natal http://web.ncf.ca/collier From: Fis [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] On Behalf Of Stanley N Salthe Sent: Sunday, 08 May 2016 4:13 PM To: Joseph

Re: [Fis] Meaning in neurosceinces

A short comment on one of Pedro’s suggestions. From: Fis [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] On Behalf Of Pedro C. Marijuan Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 11:01 AM To: 'fis' Subject: [Fis] Meaning in neurosceinces Dear FIS colleagues, [John Collier] … clip The suggestion (to

Re: [Fis] Miracles and Natural Order Fis Digest, Vol 23, Issue 24

ailed. John Collier Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Associate University of KwaZulu-Natal http://web.ncf.ca/collier From: Fis [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] On Behalf Of Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic Sent: Monday, 22 February 2016 12:53 PM To: l...@leydesdorff.net; 'Bruno Marchal'

[Fis] Information Conservation in black holes

em, require information notions, not just energy as in classical physics. John Collier Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Associate University of KwaZulu-Natal http://web.ncf.ca/collier ___ Fis mailing list Fis@listas.unizar.es http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis

[Fis] Toyabe 2010 [ Information converted to energy ] / Van den Broeck 2010 Thermodynamics of Information / Cartlidge 2010 Information converted to energy

unnecessary obstacles in the way of a unified approach to information, and that the issue of the interpretation of information gets obscured by presupposing information is carried only by meaningful communication. John Collier Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Associate University of KwaZulu

Re: [Fis] Sustainability through multilevel research: The Lifel, Deep Society Build-A-Thon - 1

MA) and myself. Extension to include the values of all living systems within economics is a natural extension of my student’s work, though he has enough on his plate right now. John Collier Professor Emeritus, UKZN http://web.ncf.ca/collier From: Fis [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] On

[Fis] The Measurement Problem from the Perspective of an Information-Theoretic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

tions in the treatment of macrosystems. John Collier Senior Research Associate and Professor Emeritus, Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal http://web.ncf.ca/collier ___ Fis mailing list Fis@listas.unizar.es http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/lis

Re: [Fis] Short article by Chaitin on information incompleteness

connections using the entropy concept, where information has units of per degree of freedom, but since most people don't understand entropy it is not clear to me that I have made real progress. So I haven't published the results yet until I can simplify the argument even more. John Collier

[Fis] Short article by Chaitin on ionformation incompleteness

A particularly clear statement of basic results of incompleteness, randomness, creativity, and a proposal for application to metabiology. http://inference-review.com/article/an-algorithmic-god John Collier Professor Emeritus, UKZN http://web.ncf.ca/collier

Re: [Fis] Answer to the comments made by Joseph

ehalf Of Loet Leydesdorff Sent: July 27, 2015 7:10 PM To: John Collier; 'Joseph Brenner'; 'Fernando Flores'; fis@listas.unizar.es Subject: RE: [Fis] Answer to the comments made by Joseph Dear John and colleagues, So fundamentally we are talking about the same basic thing with

Re: [Fis] Answer to the comments made by Joseph

Folks, Doing dimensional analysis entropy is heat difference divided by temperature. Heat is energy, and temperature is energy per degree of freedom. Dividing, we get units of inverse degrees of freedom. I submit that information has the same fundamental measure (this is a consequence of Scott

Re: [Fis] Information Foundation of the Act--F.Flores & L.deMarcos

Dear folks, I think that Koichiro is right. I would say more, though: that the loops just have to be non-reducible to look a lot like biological things. This is basically Robert Rosen's position. The sort of loops required aren't just iterations (that can be decomposed). Rather they are the sor

Re: [Fis] It-from-Bit and information interpretation of QM

al message From: Loet Leydesdorff Date:27/06/2015 10:00 (GMT+02:00) To: 'Koichiro Matsuno' ,John Collier ,'fis' Subject: RE: [Fis] It-from-Bit and information interpretation of QM Koichiro: "In order to make them decidable or meaningful, some qualifier must definitely be

Re: [Fis] It-from-Bit and information interpretation of QM

Dear folks, I believe that information in itself must be interpreted, and is not, therefore intrinsically meaningful. The addition requires, I think, semiotics. Without that there are mere mechanical relations, and at best codes that translate one domain to another without understanding or inte

Re: [Fis] Philosophy, Computing, and Information - apologies!

s of Information". Best wishes, Joseph - Original Message - From: Krassimir Markov<mailto:mar...@foibg.com> To: John Collier<mailto:colli...@ukzn.ac.za> ; Stanley N Salthe<mailto:ssal...@binghamton.edu> ; fis<mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es> Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015

Re: [Fis] Philosophy, Computing, and Information - apologies!

and eventually tested hypotheses, not in any a priori belief. John From: Krassimir Markov [mailto:mar...@foibg.com] Sent: June 12, 2015 11:19 PM To: John Collier; Stanley N Salthe; fis Subject: Re: [Fis] Philosophy, Computing, and Information - apologies! Dear John and Stan, Your both

Re: [Fis] Philosophy, Computing, and Information - apologies!

Not quite the same hierarchy, but similar: [cid:image001.png@01D0A529.DBE58A40] It from bit is just information, which is fundamental, on Seth Lloyd’s computational view of nature. Paul Davies and some other physicists agree with this. Chemical information is negentropic, and hierarchical in mo

Re: [Fis] It From Bit video

I certainly agree, Marcus. One would do much better spending the time reading Seth Lloyd’s book, Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes On the Cosmos, Knopf, March 14, 2006, 2

Re: [Fis] It From Bit video

That is most interesting, Francesco. It agrees with my understanding, but there are people reluctant to call it ‘inofrmation’. I don’t know what else to call it. Cheers, John From: Francesco Rizzo [mailto:13francesco.ri...@gmail.com] Sent: May 27, 2015 8:27 AM To: John Collier Cc: Srinandan

Re: [Fis] It From Bit video

add nothing once you have all the asymmetries, so the laws are a result of information as well. I don’t see through this adequately myself as yet, though. John From: Srinandan Dasmahapatra [mailto:s...@ecs.soton.ac.uk] Sent: May 26, 2015 10:20 PM To: u...@umces.edu; John Collier Cc: fis Subject

Re: [Fis] It From Bit video

Interesting question, Ken. I was not overly impressed with the video because it didn’t explain one of the most crucial points about the use of information in dealing with quantum gravity, for which we as yet have no good theory. The issue with both black holes and the origin of the universe proc

Re: [Fis] RV: THE FOURTH GREAT DOMAIN OF SCIENCE: INFORMATIONAL? (R.Capurro)

tion, Ed by Gordana Dodig Crnkovic and Mark Burgin, World Scientific). It probably requires more as well, depending on what we mean by 'nonstandard'. I think of nonstandard analysis as an example, but perhaps Joseph has more in mind, or something different. Cheers, John From: Rafael

Re: [Fis] RV: THE FOURTH GREAT DOMAIN OF SCIENCE: INFORMATIONAL? (R.Capurro)

An earlier version was blocked due to the large set of earlier messages. Usually I delete them if they are not relevant. I have done that this time. Cheers, John Dear fis list, List, Popper is famous for his Three Worlds model, in which ideas sit out there in their own world (the others are ma

Re: [Fis] THE FRONTIERS OF INTELLIGENCE SCIENCE--Zhao Chuan

List, I find that it works well to use Google Translate. It is hardly perfect, but much better than Bing, which gives laughable translations. I have used it here in Brazil on both my computer and cell phone, as well as having my bank use it when there were communications problems. Here is the t

Re: [Fis] "The Travellers"

976 71 3526 (& 6818) pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/ -   ___ Fis mailing list Fis@listas.unizar.es http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis Jo

Re: [Fis] "The Travelers"

st Fis@listas.unizar.es http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis ___ Fis mailing list Fis@listas.unizar.es http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis John Collier colli...@ukzn.ac.za Philosophy,

Re: [Fis] "The Travellers"

.i...@aragon.es http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/ - ___ Fis mailing list Fis@listas.unizar.es http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis -- John Collier colli...@ukzn.ac.za Philosophy, University of K

Re: [Fis] [Fwd: information.energy] Joseph Brenner

Catching up on old mail since I have been dealing with visa and banking issues (someone got into my account the old way with phone calls and faxes and stole $650). Nothing is resolved yet, but I have some spare time from these grueling necessities. First: All energy has form. Without difference

[Fis] MAXENT applied to ecology

List, I am curious what people think of this. http://www.wired.com/2014/09/information-theory-hold-key-quantifying-nature/ >From the article: MaxEnt is based on principles of simplicity and consistency, but it has additional assumptions baked into it, starting with the fact that researchers m

[Fis] Japanese physicists convert information into energy

ing to have trouble understanding this work. Cheers, John -- Professor John Collier colli...@ukzn.ac.za Philosophy and Ethics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041 South Africa T: +27 (31) 260 3248 / 260 2292 F: +27 (31) 260 3031 Http:

Re: [Fis] Fw: Krassimir's Information Quadruple and GIT. Quintuples?

ar.es http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis Professor John Collier colli...@ukzn.ac.za Philosophy and Ethics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041 South Africa T: +27 (31) 260 3248 / 260 2292   F: +27 (31) 260 3031 Http://web.ncf

Re: [Fis] Fw: Krassimir's Information Quadruple and GIT. Quintuples?

S: In decline in the actual material world that we inhabit. That is, the local world -- the world of input and dissipation. I think the information problem may be advanced if we try to explain why the energy efficiency of any work is so poor, and gets worse the harder we work. This is the key

Re: [Fis] Fw: Krassimir's Information Quadruple and GIT. Quintuples?

energy efficiency of any work is so poor, and gets worse the harder we work. This is the key local phenomenon that needs to be understood. Information can be used to improve efficiency. John Professor John Collier colli...@ukzn.ac.za Philosophy and Eth

Re: [Fis] Fw: Krassimir's Information Quadruple and GIT. Quintuples?

it extendable to life? > > (For me, of course, this requires the use of multiple symbol systems > and multiple forms of logic in order to gain the functionality of > transfer of "in-form" between individuals or machines.) > > Pridi writes: > > How can

[Fis] The remote Maxwell demon as energy down-converter

http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.3797 This article describes an intersting implementation of the use of information instead of energy, something I have been arguing for on this list for some time (see also my 1990 paper on Maxwell's demon). John -- Professor John Co

Re: [Fis] FIS in Varna. Analogue Computation

, so I suppose it could be infinite and still work, but I doubt it is infinite in real processes. I suppose I will have to work that out at some point, one way or the other. John Professor John Collier colli...@ukzn.ac.za Philosophy and Ethics, University

Re: [Fis] FIS in Varna. Analogue Computation

___ > Fis mailing list > Fis@listas.unizar.es > http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis > > ___ > Fis mailing list > Fis@listas.unizar.es > http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis >

Re: [Fis] COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE

, Birkbeck, University of London. http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYJ&hl=en    From: fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es [ mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] On Behalf Of John Collier Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2014 11:26 AM To: Foundations of Information Science Information Science

Re: [Fis] COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE

_ fis mailing list fis@listas.unizar.es https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis Steven ___ fis mailing list fis@listas.unizar.es https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis Professor John Collier 

Re: [Fis] [Feedforward II and Anticipation] Joseph Brenner

ms. I look forward to further > discussion of the issues just touched upon above. > > Best wishes, > > Joseph > > > > > > > -- > - > Pedro C. Marijuán > Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation

Re: [Fis] RV: Encoding and Decoding information-- From Jerry Chandler

re clearly, perhaps ironically. John Professor John Collier colli...@ukzn.ac.za Philosophy and Ethics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041 South Africa T: +27 (31) 260 3248 / 260 2292   F: +27 (31) 260 3031 Http://web.ncf.ca/collier ___

Re: [Fis] The Interaction Man

so that "the medium is the message." all the best - Bob Logan On 2013-12-08, at 7:41 AM, John Collier wrote: At 12:38 AM 2013/12/05, Krassimir Markov wrote: Dear Pedro and FIS Colleagues, This discussion is full with interesting ideas. What I want to add is that I distinguish the concepts &q

Re: [Fis] Fw: Responses

luding all information that inheres in structure per-se. John Collier has called the latter manifestation "enformation", and the calculus of IT is quite effective in quantifying its extent. Perhaps John would like to comment? I developed this concept in order to reply to Jeff Wicken&

Re: [Fis] Information, signals and data.

d, and codified, so that if they perform > > another experiment where it might play a role, they can be prepared > > with betting odds for what they might experience next. > > Joseph (New) - - That it is a collection of experiences does not > > exclude that it is

Re: [Fis] Article on panpsychism

o 'proto-self' is required at the levels at which Koch sees consciousness.   I had been an assiduous reader of Scientific American from high-school until the late-eighties, when it stopped publishing original scientific work. For me, today, it is not an acceptable reference.   Thank you fo

[Fis] Article on panpsychism

n between confused and clear perceptions, which takes a similar route). I think the measure is of interest independently of panpsychism. John Professor John Collier colli...@ukzn.ac.za Philosophy and Ethics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041 South Africa T

Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture

c. It is certainly deep seated. John Professor John Collier colli...@ukzn.ac.za Philosophy and Ethics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041 South Africa T: +27 (31) 260 3248 / 260 2292   F: +27 (31) 260 3031 Http://web.ncf.ca/collier _

Re: [Fis] The Interaction Man

eft undefined by Shannon (though recent work has tried to fill these gaps). Cheers, John -- Professor John Collier colli...@ukzn.ac.za Philosophy and Ethics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041 South A

[Fis] FW: 2nd CFP: Is computation observer-relative? (The 7th AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy, AISB-50, Goldsmiths, London, 1-4 April 2014)

This might be of interest to some members of the list. John From: owner-philo...@marnier.louisiana.edu [mailto:owner-philo...@marnier.louisiana.edu] On Behalf Of John Preston Sent: 06 December 2013 11:21 AM To: philo...@liverpool.ac.uk; philo...@louisiana.edu Subject: 2nd CFP: Is computation obs

Re: [Fis] The Communication Man

Shannon noted the equivalence of information and constraints in his original work. Interestingly, in Barwise and Seligman, Information Flow, particulars and classes are duals of each other, which has the same effect. John From: fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es]

Re: [Fis] FW: social flow

st fis@listas.unizar.es https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis ___ fis mailing list fis@listas.unizar.es https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis _______ fis mailing list fis@listas.un

Re: [Fis] social flow

gt;Tfno. +34 976 71 3526 (& 6818) >pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es >http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/ >- > >___ >fis mailing list >fis@listas.unizar.es >https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis -- Professor John Collier

[Fis] Praxotype

This term might be useful in the context of the present discussion, especially in the contest of coordinated practice(s). Cognotype might also be useful. I think these might lead to a more fine-grained analysis of the more integrative sociotype. http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/20

Re: [Fis] fis Digest, Vol 571, Issue 17 Role of First Principles in Information theory

From: fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] On Behalf Of Jerry LR Chandler Sent: 27 May 2013 09:51 PM To: fis@listas.unizar.es Subject: Re: [Fis] fis Digest, Vol 571, Issue 17 Role of First Principles in Information theory FISers, John, Bruno: First, John's commen

Re: [Fis] Collier's Metaphysics

ssume that you cannot do this. John At 05:27 AM 2013/05/27, Jerry LR Chandler wrote: >On May 26, 2013, at 10:46 AM, John Collier wrote: > >>I don't have much idea. > > >I concur. > >Jerry -- Professor John Collier coll

Re: [Fis] fis Digest, Vol 571, Issue 5

o it is more specific than "Re: Contents of fis digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Information and Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (John Collier) 2. Re: Information and Conformal Cyclic Cosmology (Joseph Brenner) --

Re: [Fis] Information and Conformal Cyclic Cosmology

-course in Cybersemiotics at CBS in Copenhagen 12-16. of August with invited speakers explain the idea. Information here http://www.cbs.dk/en/node/254737 .   Best wishes       Søren Brier   Fra: fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es [ mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] På vegne af John Collier Send

Re: [Fis] Information and Conformal Cyclic Cosmology

in the cosmological framework. As I said above, I am working on this, but how far I will get before October is not predictable right now. Maybe I could use some of that reverse photon information :-) Best, John Professor John Collier colli...@ukzn.ac.za Philosoph

Re: [Fis] fis Digest, Vol 570, Issue 2

d, and me already talked about that because i contended that mackay was first with a similar saying. i referred to luciano floridi, but floridi did not provide the exact reference. magnus and david had looked through the book in question and showed it to me but we did not find the quote. john collier an

Re: [Fis] About FIS 2005

2005,except your FIS 2005 brief conference report published in http://www.mdpi.org/entropy/htm/e7030188.htm? Best regards, Xueshan 17:47, April 14, 2013 __ Robert K. Logan Chief Scientist - sLab at OCAD Prof. Emeritus - Physics - U. of Toronto www.physics.utor

[Fis] FW: fis Digest, Vol 570, Issue 2

I am afraid that it was my fault. I thought I recalled a quote, but actually it is an interpretation of Mackay. Sorry about that. Amazing that it spread so much, but that probably reflects that it is endemic in Mackay's work. John -Original Message- From: fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es [m

Re: [Fis] [Fwd: SV: Science, Philosophy and Information. An Alternative Relation] S.Brier

0 >From: Søren Brier >To: joe.bren...@bluewin.ch , Pedro Clemente >Marijuan Fernandez , fis@listas.unizar.es >, John Collier >References: <6043399.89641360255002322.javamail.webm...@bluewin.ch> > > > >Dear Joseph > > > >I go for each of the th

[Fis] Society for the Philosophy of Information

http://www.socphilinfo.org/ -- Professor John Collier colli...@ukzn.ac.za Philosophy and Ethics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041 South Africa T: +27 (31) 260 3248 / 260 2292 F: +27 (31) 260 3031 <http://web.ncf.ca/collier>http://w

Re: [Fis] John Collier's "Large Correction". And Information?

when Pedro will get around to circulating it.   It is your comment that I would welcome most.   Cheers,   Joseph     - Original Message - From: Joseph Brenner To: John Collier ; fis Sent: Friday, November 23, 2012 10:13 AM Subject: John Collier's "Large Correction". An

Re: [Fis] FW: The Information Flow

atics I think we need the additional condition of dissipation (what I call nonHamiltonian mechanics elsewhere -- the usual condition of conservation breaks down due to the loss of free energy to the system). Best, John Professor John Collier colli...@ukzn.ac.za

[Fis] Some of you will find this of interest

he recipient of the $100,000 Edge of Computation Prize, and he is the author of The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality. Professor John Collier colli...@ukzn.ac.za Philosophy and Ethics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041 South Africa T: +2

Re: [Fis] The Information Flow

agon.es http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/ --------- ___ fis mailing list fis@listas.unizar.es https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis Professor John Collier

Re: [Fis] Good (clear) article on information and physics

Professor John Collier Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal Durban 4041 South Africa T: +27 (31) 260 3248 / 260 2292 F: +27 (31) 260 3031 email: colli...@ukzn.ac.za>>> On 2012/06/01 at 03:30 PM, in message <8031ab93-e68f-4760-bba9-a1b18bfee...@ulb.ac.be>, Bruno Marchal

Re: [Fis] Good (clear) article on information and physics

eems to me to depedn on a sort of idealism that I do not accept. Incidentally, quantum decoherence is best seen as a sort of thermodynamic effect. There are quantum measurements that can be reversed. I can give some references if anyone wants. John Professor John Collier Philosophy,

[Fis] Good (clear) article on information and physics

antum systems could be done better by a computer that was itself a quantum system." Cheers, John -- Professor John Collier colli...@ukzn.ac.za Philosophy and Ethics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041 South Africa T: +27 (31) 260 3248 / 260 22

Re: [Fis] Stephen Wolfram discussing his ANKS in Reedit this Monday

10. 20011: Elsevier pp. 195ff. Cheers, John Professor John Collier Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal Durban 4041 South Africa T: +27 (31) 260 3248 / 260 2292 F: +27 (31) 260 3031 email: colli...@ukzn.ac.za>>> On 2012/05/15 at 03:35 PM, in message <201205

Re: [Fis] [Fwd: Re: Physics of computing]--Plamen S.

isn't right. Frankly, blocking potential consiliences a priori I find revolting. John Professor John Collier Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal Durban 4041 South Africa T: +27 (31) 260 3248 / 260 2292 F: +27 (31) 260 3031 email: colli...@ukzn.ac.za>>> On 2012/04/18 at 0

Re: [Fis] [Fwd: Re: Physics of computing]--Plamen S.

e important thing is whether some idea for which x is a sign can be used productively and scientifically. John Professor John Collier Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal Durban 4041 South Africa T: +27 (31) 260 3248 / 260 2292 F: +27 (31) 260 3031 email: colli...@ukzn.ac.za>>> On 2012/

Re: [Fis] Physics of Computing

thers that might be relevant on my web page http://web.ncf.ca/collier/papers.html John Professor John Collier Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal Durban 4041 South Africa T: +27 (31) 260 3248 / 260 2292 F: +27 (31) 260 3031 email: colli...@ukzn.ac.za>>> On 2012/03/16 a

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