Folks,
A nice thing about the dichotomies such as the actual-potential (Peirce),
einselection-superposition (Schroedinger), figure-background (Merleau-Ponty),
filling-up - void
(Marijuan), presence-absence (Deacon) and the like is the appraisal of the
individual-class
dichotomy even if an
conceptual tools to work with.
Thank you and best wishes,
Joseph
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Von: cxq02...@nifty.com
Datum: 19.03.2012 23:24
An: fis@listas.unizar.es
Betreff: Re: [Fis] FW: [Fwd: Re: Physics of computing]--Plamen S.
Folks,
A nice thing about the dichotomies
Concerning the meaning (or effect) of information (or constraint) in
general, I have proposed that context is crucial in modulating the effect
-- in all cases. Thus: it would be like the logical example:
Effect = context a x Constraint ^context b
STAN
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 2:18 PM,
Stan - great formula but as I learned from Anthony Reading who wrote a lovely
book on information Meaningful Information - it is the recipient that brings
the meaning to the information.
PS My book What is Information was been translated into Portuguese and
published in Brazil where I am
Dear FISers,
Indeed information can be considered downwards (physical meaningless) and
upwards (biological meaningful). The difference being about
interpretation or not.
It also introduces an evolutionary approach to information processing and
meaning generation.
There is a chapter
