ysical.
Best,
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ntertain the concept mentally,
but therefore it is not yet mental. It is codified at an
above-individual level as a structure in language. Is language physical?
I doubt it: language carriers (human beings) are.
Best,
Loet
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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
d
is
driven from the next-order level and not by its genesis.
Best,
Loet
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Dear Mark,
Can you, please, explain "transduction" in more detail? Perhaps, you can
also provide examples?
Best,
Loet
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"translation" which make it
possible to redirect.
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Loet
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g.
Best,
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. Construction is bottom-up, but once constructed control can be
expected to operate top-down.
Best,
Loet
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l
objective, but intersubjective. It is
provided with hindsight to the historical events and with reference to
horizons of meaning.
Best,
Loet
PS. Pedro, this is my first message in the new week. L.
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At this point, I feel I need a ‘refresher’ on Loet Leydesdorff’s
important distinction, with reference to information, between recursion
and incursion. Loet?
When one thinks outside the box, as Bob U. will have us do, the air may
seem a little thin, for a while. However, one can soon get
lenge of Scientometrics: The
development, measurement, and self-organization of scientific
communications. Leiden: DSWO Press, Leiden University; at
http://www.universal-publishers.com/book.php?method=ISBN&book=1581126816,
p. 295.
Best,
Loet
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r example, is based on the communication of momenta and energy because
these two quantities have to be conserved. In the 17th century, it was
common to use the word "communication" in this context (Leibniz).
Best,
Loet
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From: "Terrence W. DEACON&quo
Dear Pedro and colleagues,
2. Eigenvectors of communication. Taking the motif from Loet, and
continuing with the above, could we say that the life cycle itself
establishes the eigenvectors of communication? It is intriguing that
maintenance, persistence, self-propagation are the essential moti
nication. Scientific discourse is validated using criteria
that are coded in communication; religious disputatio is about a given
truth.
Best,
Loet
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t have access
to our intersubjectivity as systems of expectations.
Best,
Loet
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ther (as a heuristics) and substantive theories of
communication such as when molecules are exchanged. The exchange of
molecules, however, is very different from the exchange of ideas in
scholarly communication.
Best,
Loet
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lel Distributed Processing, Journal for the
Theory of Social Behaviour 23 (1993) 47-77.
*<http://www.leydesdorff.net/jses95/jses95.pdf> The Production of
Probabilistic Entropy in Structure/Action Contingency Relations, Journal of
Social and Evolutionary Systems 18 (1995) 339-56.
an epiphenomenon of something deeper.
One can always ask for "something deeper". The answers, however, tend to
become religious. I am interested in operationalization and design.
Best,
Loet
Best wishes,
Mark
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Dear Terry and colleagues,
"Language is rather the special case, the most unusual communicative
adaptation to ever have evolved, and one that grows out of and depends
on informationa/semiotic capacities shared with other species and with
biology in general."
Let me try to argue in favor of "me
Cher Michel,
Loet thinks that "Nobody of us provide an operative framework and a
single (just one!) empirical testable prevision able to assess
"information"
I did not say this, but reacted to one of our colleagues saying this.
Best,
Loet
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ucts. The
constructs differ in terms of "what is distributed", that is, the
specification of "the object". L.
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ht
Dear Jose Javier,
Thank you so much for these rich comments. I have to think a bit before
answering.
Best,
Loet
Loet Leydesdorff
Professor, University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam School of Communication Research
Thanks!
Best,
Loet
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Ass
Toward a Calculus of Redundancy:
<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3030525>
Signification, Codification, and Anticipation in Cultural Evolution
<https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3030525>
Loet Leydesdorff, Mark W. Johnson, and Inga Ivano
Everybody defines information in the way he prefers: subjective, biotic, bit,
and so on.
Therefore, every study that talks about "information" is meaningless.
Dear Arturo,
The “Therefore” does not follow. It is a non-igitur. For example, Shannon’s
information theory is not necessarily meaning
Toward a Calculus of Redundancy: <https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.02455>
The feedback arrow of expectations in knowledge-based systems
Loet Leydesdorff, Mark W. Johnson, Inga Ivanova
(Submitted on 10 Jan 2017; https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.02455 )
Whereas the generation of Shanno
everyday human experience.
Dai
On 20/12/16 08:26, Loet Leydesdorff wrote:
Dear colleagues,
A distribution contains uncertainty that can be measured in terms of bits of
information.
Alternatively: the expected information content H of a probability distribution
is .
H is further defi
d; but the resulting puzzles are a subject for future
research.
Best,
Loet
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-Hillel once called it “information calculus”—can
carry this interdisciplinary function with precision and rigor. Otherwise, we
can only be respectful of each other’s research traditions. J
I wish you all a splendid 2017,
Loet
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Another answer was that “counting” may lead to populism. J
Best,
Loet
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Dear James and colleagues,
Weaver (1949) made two major remarks about his coauthor (Shannon)'s
contribution:
1. the definition of information as uncertainty is counter-intuitive
("bizarre"); (p. 27)
2. "In particular, information must not be confused with meaning." (p. 8)
The definit
quated with
information because one then uses the same word for two different things and
thus generates confusion.
Best,
Loet
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heuristics and translations.
But I am looking forward to your answers.
Best,
Loet
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Dear Malcolm:
To an animal about to be attacked and eaten, the meaning of an approaching
predator is quite clear.
Obviously, meaning is produced by, within, and among Observers, and not by
language.
“Quite clear” and “obviously” are no arguments. It is “as if” the animal
attributes m
as well as classical physics.“ So what? This seems to me a debate within
physics without much relevance for non-physicists (e.g., economists or
linguists).
Best,
Loet
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<
Dear Marcus,
When considering things in terms of "functional significance" one must confront
the need to address "meaning" in terms of both the living and the physical . .
. and their necessarily entangled nature.
“Meaning” is first a linguistic construct; its construction requires inter
Clustered Journal Maps <https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03779>
Loet Leydesdorff, Lutz Bornmann, and Caroline S. Wagner
Journal maps for 11,359 journals listed in the combined Journal Citation
Reports 2015 of the Science and Social Sciences Citation Indexes are
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ntiations of the order of expectations; but only if the latter is
specified as different from the empirical order of realizations.
Best,
Loet
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ther
than realized or imagined. Hypotheses can be tested and modified.
Best,
Loet
Loet Leydesdorff, Inga Ivanova, and Mark Johnson, The Communication of
Expectations and Individual Understanding: Redundancy as Reduction of
Uncertainty, and the Processing of Meaning <http://ssrn.com/abs
iesemer, J. R. (1989). Institutional Ecology,Translations,
and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of
Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39. Social Studies of Science, 19(3), 387-420.
Whitehead, A. N. (1916). Address to the British Association at Newcastle.
Nature, 98(14 Septemb
explained.
I don't have answers on my side. But perhaps, the strength of anticipation and
the role of models needs to be explored. Models can be entertained and enable
us to reconstruct a knowledge-based reality.
Best,
Loet
Loet Leydesdorff
Professor, University of Amsterdam
Amsterda
an a priori origin, in my
opinion, is not a good idea. The formal a priori is contained in the notion of
probability (which grounds also Shannon’s entropy).
Best,
Loet
PS. Pedro: my last posting was on Sunday evening. L.
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Dear Jerry,
At the risk of being jailed by Pedro, let me point to the beauty of the example:
>From a molecular biological perspective, the assertion of “same encoding” of
>information is contrary to fact.
OK: the coding of the information is species specific; both theoretically and
e
Dear Pedro and colleagues,
The figure from Weaver in Loet's excellent posting leaves a few aspects
outside. The why, the what, the how long, the with whom, and other aspects
of the information phenomenon do not enter. By doing that we have
streamlined the phenomenon... and have left it ready f
inst Shannon-type information which flows linearly from the sender to
the receiver, one can expect meanings to loop, and thereby, to develop
next-order dimensionalities. New meanings generate new options and thus
redundancy. In my opinion, the task is to specify mechanisms which generate
redun
epresentations, Bayesian Inferences, and Empirical Science
Studies, <http://www.leydesdorff.net/ssi92/index.htm> Social Science
Information 31 (1992, nr. 2), 213-37.
If so wished, I can provide pdf.
These questions will be refined next days...
Best--Pedro
Best,
Loet
ould enable us to
specify/measure meaning as redundancy / reduction of uncertainty given
information as uncertainty. I took this further in: Loet Leydesdorff,
Alexander Petersen, and Inga A. Ivanova, The Self-Organization of Meaning
and the Reflexive Communication of Information.
<http://arxiv.o
information.
Best,
Loet
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aspiration to one among possible research programs.
Best,
Loet
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Dear Lou and colleagues,
The reasoning is very clear. Thank you.
(…)
At this point the being has attained linguistic self-reference. The being can
say “I am the meta-name of my own naming process.”
This nexus or fixed point of self-reference can occur naturally in a being that
has suff
Dear Pedro,
I disagree about putting "meaning" outside the scope of natural sciences.
I doubt that anybody on this list would disagree about using the metaphor of
meaning in the natural sciences.
Maturana (1978, p. 49): "In still other words, if an organism is observed in
its operati
Dear Soren,
It is very strange for me to read yours as usual very learned text,
because your understanding of what it is I am trying to do is so different
from my own understanding. Though I have had great pleasure of reading you
works over the years I am not sure that you have read much of
7;t wish to deny the fruitfulness of the Piercean system
of analyzing signs can have fruitful applications in the information
sciences. However, its status is not different from a methodology or a
mathematical theory of communication.
Best,
Loet
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f an
individual. One cannot reduce the one level to the other, in my opinion.
Which research program of these two has priority? How do they relate
potentially differently to information?
Best,
Loet
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Professor, University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam School of Communica
depende de la capacidad individual que
tiene cada sujeto de actuar en su mundo. Loet Leydesdorff, Doctor en
Sociología y profesor en el departamento de estudios de la comunicación en
la Universidad de Amsterdam, ha publicado textos de redes sociales,
filosofía de la ciencia, sociología de la in
Dear Maxine:
Thank you for these extensive and interesting contributions and answers.
Husserl’s concern was precisely with how the world, the world that definitively
includes Others, thus bodies and we-relationships, is constituted, thus how we
come to the concepts, judgements, and mea
.
· Schutz, A. (1975). The Problem of Transcendental Intersubjectivity. In
I. Schutz (Ed.), Collected Papers III. Studies in Phenomenological Philosophy
(pp. 51-91). The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
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Amsterdam School of
All worldviews begin in a miracle. No exceptions.
I agree. Nevertheless, we should, and can, minimize the miracle.
Why would one need a worldview? The whole assumption of an order as a Given
(in a Revelation) is religious. Order is always constructed (by us) and
can/needs to be explained.
Loet Leydesdorff
Professor, University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)
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Honorary Professor, SPRU, University of Sussex;
Guest Professor Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou; Visiting Professor, ISTIC
i (Eds.),
<http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/179986> Communication and Technology,
De Gruyter Mouton, 2015; doi:10.1515/9783110271355-032
<http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110271355-032> .
Best,
Loet
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There is real communication between cells, people, organizations... as the
input is sensed (or disregarded) and judged according to boundary conditions
and to the accumulated experiential information content of the entity. The
outcome is adaptive: aiming at the self-production/self-propagation of t
dimensionality (Joule/Kelvin) so that S is
thermodynamic entropy. H is a mathematical formula. It can be used to measure
your “functional significances”, cannot it?
Best,
Loet
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ideas
of Islam. Using the words and deeds of Mohammed, words and deeds that are
still making copies of themselves in new minds 1,384 years after Mohammed’s
death.
Best,
Loet
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material; see my example of
the rule of law. It is not a religion, but a dynamics of expectations.
Replacing it with a biology misses the point.
Best,
Loet
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<mailt
categorizations remain possible. Of course, “fields” are not “momenta” J.
Best,
Loet
PS. I hope, Pedro, that this is the one that I could still do at the end of
this week. L.
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he rise of a new business model of publishing
scholarly journals that are cross-disciplinary, such as PLoS One. See for more
details my recent paper:
Loet Leydesdorff & Wouter de Nooy, Can <http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.00229> "Hot
Spots" in the Sciences Be Mapped Using the Dynamics o
Self-reference is a key principle in art and humor and it may also be a key
component of the structured coherence in science Pedro and we are seeking.
Dear Joseph:
Do not count me in to the "we", please. In my opinion, these "unity of
science" principles are outdated. At issue is to specify
erms of
perceptions (that are steered by expectations) and at the other end by
knowledge-based interventions.
This is my second posting for this week.
Best,
Loet
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Dear Marcus,
Yes, that is the idea!
The Self-Organization of Meaning and the Reflexive Communication of Information
<http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.05251>
Loet Leydesdorff, Alexander Petersen, and Inga A. Ivanova
Following a suggestion of Warren Weaver, we extend the Shannon mo
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From: Robert E. Ulanowicz [mailto:u...@umces.edu]
Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2015 7:11 PM
To: Mark Johnson; Loet Leydesdorff
Cc: Robert Ulanowicz
Subject: Re: [Fis] [Fwd: Re: Information is a linguistic description of
structures]--T...
Dear Mark & Loet,
unications.
The horizontal and vertical feedback and feedforward mechanisms (entropy
generation vs. redundancy generation in terms of increasing the number of
options) are further to be specified.
Hopefully, this contributes to our discussion.
Best,
Loet
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Dear Stan,
I sometimes become confused by your word usage.
S: Well, I have generalized the Shannon concept of information carrying
capacity under 'variety'... {variety {information carrying capacity}}. This
allows the concept to operate quite generally in evolutionary and ecological
d
Dear colleagues,
Without wishing to defend Husserl, let me try to formulate what is according
to my knowledge core to his contribution. The message is that the
transcendental intersubjectivity is phenomenologically present in our
reality. He therefore returns to Descartes' (much rejected) disti
Dear colleagues,
I read your paper with interest. Since my interest is “information”, I focused
on this concept.
1. If I correctly understand, you define information as the 2-log of the
number of options. I would be inclined to call this the maximum information
content of an act,
rder loops are
added: instead of p(i), for example, p(ijk)
Best,
Loet
Loet Leydesdorff
Emeritus University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)
l...@leydesdorff.net ; http://www.leydesdorff.net/
Honorary Professor, SPRU, University of Sussex;
Guest Professor Zhe
Dear John and colleagues,
So fundamentally we are talking about the same basic thing with information
and entropy.
The problem is "fundamentally": the two are the same except for a constant.
Most authors attribute the dimensionality to this constant (kB).
>From the perspective of proba
Dear Joe,
a) information is more than order; there is information in absence
(Deacon), in disorder, in incoherence as well as coherence;
The absent options provide the redundancy; that is, the complement of the
information to the maximal information [H(max)].
See also my recent comm
The Self-Organization of Meaning and the Reflexive Communication of
Information <http://arxiv.org/abs/1507.05251>
Loet Leydesdorff, Alexander Petersen, and Inga A. Ivanova
Following a suggestion of Warren Weaver, we extend the Shannon model of
communication piecemeal into a c
From: John Collier [mailto:colli...@ukzn.ac.za]
Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2015 11:10 AM
To: l...@leydesdorff.net; 'Koichiro Matsuno'; 'fis'
Subject: Re: [Fis] It-from-Bit and information interpretation of QM
Sorry Loet, but I just don't see the need for an observer. I do think the
difference mu
can
also be negative (“negentropy”). But how does one proceed to the measurement?
Best,
Loet
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<mailto:l...@leydesdorff.net> l...@leydesdorff.net ;
Ithaca, etc.: Cornell University.
Theil, H. (1972). Statistical Decomposition Analysis. Amsterdam/ London:
North-Holland.
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<mailto:l...@leydesdorff.net> l...@leydesdor
fessor Leydesdorff,
Your submission has been published in Sciforum.
Submission ID: sciforum-004690
Title: Mutual Redundancies and Triple Contingencies among Perspectives on
Horizons of Meaning
Author: Loet Leydesdorff
Conference: ISIS Summit Vienna 2015—The Information Society at the Crossroads
S
as res cogitans (in
this case, cogitatum) and the second as res extensa. But we have no access to
the latter (“nature”) but as a referent to the former (discourse). Is this part
of the logic in reality? Is that in the neighbourhood of what you mean with LIR?
Best,
Loet
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systems of reference.
Best,
Loet
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mation and
Information Science, to:
http://figshare.com/articles/Mutual_Redundancies_and_Triple_Contingencies_am
ong_Perspectives_on_Horizons_of_Meaning/1439441
Best,
Loet
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Dear colleagues,
I see "informational processes" as essentially being proto-scientific – how is
any "science" not an informational process?
The sciences, in my opinion, are different in terms of what is communicated. As
Maturana noted, the communication of molecules generates a biolo
Dear colleagues,
For the measurement of interdisciplinarity, one can use, for example,
Rao-Stirling diversity which is defined as follows (Rao, 1982; Stirling,
2007):
Δ = Σij pi pj dij (1)
where dij is a disparity measure between two classes i
g the same principle that the network of
relations develops a next-order architecture.
Best,
Loet
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PS. You can see the table in html. L.
Dear Joe,
As tragic events repeatedly show, their origin is often not the lack of
information in the simple sense, but the lack of structures (or structurations)
in people capable of implementing it. These structures or capacities are also
informati
Begriffe fehlen, fuegt zur rechten Zeit ein Wort sich ein. :)
Best wishes,
Loet
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Dear Terry and colleagues,
“As I have said a number of times, my goal is not to deal with all aspects of
the information concept, and certainly not at the level of human thought. I
merely propose to dissolve the implicit dualism in our current concepts at the
most basic level, so that for e
. I sense a tendency in your discussion paper to
ground all the theory in physics (thermodynamics) as a meta-theory or grand
theory of communication. Is this erroneous? Can the special cases further
develop with a next-lower level as the noise generating medium?
Best,
Loet Leydesdorff
). The advantages have
to be shown in empirical research: which questions can be addressed and which
puzzles be solved?
Best,
Loet
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Emeritus University of Amsterdam
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<mailto:l...@leydesdorff.net
Analysis of Network
Data Using Information Theory. Social Networks, 13(4), 301-345.
*Theil, H. (1972). Statistical Decomposition Analysis. Amsterdam/
London: North-Holland.
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Emeritus University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam School of Communications Research
Dear colleagues,
The metaphors are sometimes confusing. For example:
Along the line of your argument, meaningfulness would be exclusive to
dynamical systems where agency, purpose, and self-interest have emerged.
I would further limit meaningfulness only to the cultural domain. Meani
ion, retention, self-organization). The reduction of uncertainty (the
negative information) is caused by spurious correlations between each two of
these three selection mechanisms.
Best,
Loet
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University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR)
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