Re: [Fis] Information and Locality Introduction

2015-09-16 Thread Moisés André Nisenbaum
Steven Just to register. I watched all Khan Academy videos. They are awesome! I will use them with my students. Thank you. Best -- Moisés André Nisenbaum Doutorando IBICT/UFRJ. Professor. Msc. Instituto Federal do Rio de Janeiro - IFRJ Campus Maracanã moises.nisenb...@ifrj.edu.br 2015-09-09 19

Re: [Fis] Information and Locality Introduction

2015-09-14 Thread Francesco Rizzo
Caro Terry, le Tue considerazioni sono sempre creative e stimolanti. Per me l'informazione è in-centrata sulla forma, sullo stato, sulla condizione topologica di un qualcosa che può considerarsi un "testo" o con-"testo" il cui significato non può non essere interpretato.Ma esistono cose a questo mo

Re: [Fis] Information and Locality Introduction

2015-09-12 Thread Terrence W. DEACON
Reminders of old news. In defense of Stan: The use of the term "variety" as a generic stand-in for Shannon's concept of signal entropy traces to W. Ross Ashby, in his excellent effort to demystify information theory and cybernetics for the nontechnical reader. It is appropriate, then, to assume th

Re: [Fis] Information and Locality Introduction

2015-09-12 Thread Stanley N Salthe
Reacting to my: 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 discourses. Information, then, if you like, is what is

Re: [Fis] Information and Locality Introduction

2015-09-12 Thread Michel Petitjean
Dear Loet, Variance is a parameter which can be computed for the distribution of any real random variable having a finite moment of order 2. It includes Normal, Binomial, Poisson, Exponential, any distribution with bounded support, etc. However, some statistical tests about the variance assume norm

Re: [Fis] Information and Locality Introduction

2015-09-12 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
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

Re: [Fis] Information and Locality Introduction

2015-09-11 Thread Francesco Rizzo
Cari Steven Ericsson-Zenith, Pedro e Tutti, proprio da qualche mese ho iniziato a scrivere un libro in cui, fra l'altro, affronto ancora una volta il tema dell'informazione dell'armonia o dell'armonia dell'informazione. Specialmente in questi giorni, dopo avere passato in rassegna le diverse teorie

Re: [Fis] Information and Locality Introduction

2015-09-11 Thread HowlBloom
In a message dated 9/11/2015 8:15:48 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es writes: Dear Steven and FIS colleagues, Many thanks for this opening text. What you are proposing about a pretty structured discussion looks a good idea, although it will have to confront the usual

Re: [Fis] Information and Locality Introduction

2015-09-11 Thread Robert E. Ulanowicz
I'll have to weigh in with Stan on this one. Stan earlier had defined information more generally as "constraint". It is convenient to employ the IT calculus to separate constraint from indeterminacy. This is possible in complete abstraction from anything to do with communication. The ability to ma

Re: [Fis] Information and Locality Introduction

2015-09-11 Thread Jerry LR Chandler
Dear Steven, Pedro and List: Two excellent posts! Steven: I look forward to your ratiocinations and there connectivity with symbolic logic. It is my view that one of the foundational stumbling blocks to communication about syntactical information theory (and its exactness!) is the multi-mean

Re: [Fis] Information and Locality Introduction

2015-09-11 Thread Stanley N Salthe
Pedro wrote" >Most attempts to enlarge informational thought and to extend it to life, economies, societies, etc. continue to be but a reformulation of the former ideas with little added value. S: Well, I have generalized the Shannon concept of information carrying capacity under 'variety'... {v

Re: [Fis] Information and Locality Introduction

2015-09-11 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear Steven and FIS colleagues, Many thanks for this opening text. What you are proposing about a pretty structured discussion looks a good idea, although it will have to confront the usually anarchic discussion style of FIS list! Two aspects of your initial text have caught my attention (apart f