Re: [Fis] About FIS 2005

2013-04-16 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
/citations?user=ych9gNYJ http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYJhl=en hl=en From: fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] On Behalf Of John Collier Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 4:37 PM To: Bob Logan; y...@pku.edu.cn Cc: fis Subject: Re: [Fis] About

Re: [Fis] About FIS 2005

2013-04-15 Thread Bob Logan
Dear Xueshan - re Nalewajski's conjecture that molecular systems have information I am skeptical. The word information originated with the idea of forming the mind according to the OED. Information as far as I am concerned requires a sentient being to receive and understand it. Molecules and

Re: [Fis] About FIS 2005

2013-04-15 Thread John Collier
Bob, Xueshan, others, This is an issue that I think more terminological than anything else, and I think that there is no correct answer. The problem is more to find the relations between different uses of information that are current in science ( Kinds of Information in Scientific Use. 2011.