Re: [Fis] The notion of "meaning"... (impredicativity)

2009-04-06 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear Christophe and Giuseppe, Thanks for the recent comments, really exciting . There is a direct connection between quantum & unpicturability (but do not have here the proper reference; it is one of the simplifications which allows approaching chemical bonds by making them independent on the atom

Re: [Fis] The notion of "meaning"... (impredicativity)

2009-04-02 Thread Giuseppe Longo
On Thursday 02 April 2009, Pedro C. Marijuan wrote: > It conduces to realizing that the > information processing of living cells is not of the same class than the > processes of formal, predicative nature (computation). Why computational processes should be necessarely predicative? Girard's Type

Re: [Fis] The notion of "meaning"... (impredicativity)

2009-04-02 Thread Christophe Menant
tion: Towards a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. 2008. Forthcoming.) . > Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 11:18:30 +0200 > From: pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es > To: christophe.men...@hotmail.fr > CC: fis@listas.unizar.es > Subject: Re: [Fis] The notion of "mean

Re: [Fis] The notion of "meaning"... (impredicativity)

2009-04-02 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Thanks, Christophe. These days I am involved in a paper on "prokaryotic intelligence", and have laterally approached the problem of cellular meaning. I am copying a fragment below (not corrected yet). Rosen's "impredicativity" looks to me an important concept to clarify things. However, rather