Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis

2018-06-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
tanley N Salthe > Sent: jeudi, 31 mai 2018 16:21 > To: Burgin, Mark; fis > Subject: Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis > > Mark -- What Shannon referred to as 'entropy' was 'variety'. 'Information' > per se was achieved by way of a

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis

2018-06-05 Thread Bruno Marchal
Dear Arturo, > On 21 May 2018, at 12:49, tozziart...@libero.it wrote: > > Dear Bruno, > You state that: > "When poll are done at congress in cosmology or quantum computing, about half > of the physicists endorse the non collapse theory, as it is covariant, and > has no “measurement problem”.

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis

2018-06-02 Thread Francesco Rizzo
- > > *From:* Fis [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] *On Behalf Of *Stanley > N Salthe > *Sent:* jeudi, 31 mai 2018 16:21 > *To:* Burgin, Mark; fis > > *Subject:* Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis > > > > Mark -- W

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis

2018-05-31 Thread Joseph Brenner
: Fis [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] On Behalf Of Stanley N Salthe Sent: jeudi, 31 mai 2018 16:21 To: Burgin, Mark; fis Subject: Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis Mark -- What Shannon referred to as 'entropy' was 'variety'. 'Information' p

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis

2018-05-31 Thread Stanley N Salthe
.bbk.ac.uk/>, University of London; > http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYJ&hl=en > > > -- Original Message -- > From: "Burgin, Mark" > To: "Søren Brier" ; "Krassimir Markov" ; > "fis@listas.unizar.es" &

Re: [Fis] Is information physical?

2018-05-31 Thread Joseph Brenner
: [Fis] Is information physical? Dear Emanuel, Hi! I'm sorry, but the UCLA finding does not put an end to any question. Indeed, this paper about memory transfer has been highly criticized: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2018/05/18/epic-snail-about-t hat-injectable-memory-study

Re: [Fis] Is information physical?

2018-05-30 Thread tozziarturo
Dear Emanuel, Hi! I'm sorry, but the UCLA finding does not put an end to any question. Indeed, this paper about memory transfer has been highly criticized: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/neuroskeptic/2018/05/18/epic-snail-about-that-injectable-memory-study/#.Ww-V81UzYps The term "materi

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis

2018-05-30 Thread Burgin, Mark
rk" <mailto:mbur...@math.ucla.edu>> To: "Søren Brier" mailto:sbr@cbs.dk>>; "Krassimir Markov" mailto:mar...@foibg.com>>; "fis@listas.unizar.es" <mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es>> Sent: 5/24/2018 4:23:53 AM Subject: Re: [Fis] Is information

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis

2018-05-25 Thread Christophe Menant
Objet : RE: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis Dear Christoph I am not sure what you mean. In my understanding the important dynamics in Peirce’s pragmaticist semiotics is that symbols grow and create habits in a web of signs in nature as well as in culture viewing the central

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis

2018-05-25 Thread Søren Brier
bolic nature that through evolution and history develops reasoning in many interlocking dimension. Best Søren From: Christophe Menant Sent: 25. maj 2018 09:08 To: Søren Brier ; fis@listas.unizar.es Subject: RE: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis Dear Soren, Yo

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis

2018-05-25 Thread Mark Johnson
r.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYJ&hl=en> -- Original Message -- From: "Burgin, Mark" To: "Søren Brier" ; "Krassimir Markov" ; " fis@listas.unizar.es" Sent: 5/24/2018 4:23:53 AM Subject: Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logic

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis

2018-05-25 Thread Christophe Menant
De : Fis de la part de Søren Brier Envoyé : jeudi 24 mai 2018 17:44 À : Loet Leydesdorff; Burgin, Mark; Krassimir Markov; fis@listas.unizar.es Objet : Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis Dear Mark, Loet and others My point was that all the

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis

2018-05-24 Thread Søren Brier
user=ych9gNYJ&hl=en -- Original Message -- From: "Burgin, Mark" mailto:mbur...@math.ucla.edu>> To: "Søren Brier" mailto:sbr@cbs.dk>>; "Krassimir Markov" mailto:mar...@foibg.com>>; "fis@listas.unizar.es<mailto:fis@listas.uniza

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis

2018-05-24 Thread Dai Griffiths
Thanks Lou, you are surely right to point out the object-nature of concepts. >There is no escape from sooner or later realizing that 2 exists only in the mind or in the Mind. Indeed. Our minds are full of such concepts. It seems that one of the important activities of the mind is to generate

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis

2018-05-23 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
itations?user=ych9gNYJ&hl=en -- Original Message -- From: "Burgin, Mark" To: "Søren Brier" ; "Krassimir Markov" ; "fis@listas.unizar.es" Sent: 5/24/2018 4:23:53 AM Subject: Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis Dear Søren, You

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis

2018-05-23 Thread Louis H Kauffman
Dai, I start down a road toward attempting to understand information by first understanding number and form. | || ||| | … Is a number a thing? Is 2 a thing? Cannot say that this 2, this || “is” two. Rather it partakes in being a couple. 2 is relational. We say that there are 2 signs in t

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis - Can it be Improved?

2018-05-23 Thread Burgin, Mark
Dear Jerry, Joseph and all FISers, The title of my contribution is Logical Analysis but not Formal Logical Analysis. It means that I did not use any formal logic but thoroughly applied simple mundane logic, which is frequently used in everyday life. Sincerely, Mark On 5/18/2018 8:45 A

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis

2018-05-23 Thread Burgin, Mark
and the technical sciences that makes up the foundation of most conceptions of information science. Best Søren *Fra:*Fis *På vegne af *Krassimir Markov *Sendt:* 17. maj 2018 11:33 *Til:* fis@listas.unizar.es; Burgin, Mark *Emne:* Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis

2018-05-21 Thread tozziarturo
Dear Bruno, You state that: "When poll are done at congress in cosmology or quantum computing, about half of the physicists endorse the non collapse theory, as it is covariant, and has no “measurement problem”. This means that the main tenet of your account, your "First Principle", is not acce

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis

2018-05-21 Thread Bruno Marchal
Dear Arturo, This is already my second post of this week, so you might answer to my two posts, and I will comment your possible answer (if necessary) next week. Thank you. > On 20 May 2018, at 19:30, tozziart...@libero.it wrote: > > Dear Bruno, > You talk about "some non mechanical super-ent

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis

2018-05-20 Thread tozziarturo
Dear Bruno, You talk about "some non mechanical super-entities (which exist also in the arithmetical reality)". This way of reasoning throws us into the realm of the philosophy of mathematics, in which you clearly pursue a neo-platonism in the traces of Tegmark, Godel, Husserl, Tiles, against

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis

2018-05-20 Thread Bruno Marchal
Hi Dai Griffith, Hi Colleagues, > On 17 May 2018, at 13:44, Dai Griffiths wrote: > > What is a 'thing'? > I assume Digital Mechanism all along. I don’t know if it is true, but if true it provides a clear (and tastable) answer. For the staring basic primitive “ontological”, you can stat fro

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis

2018-05-17 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
amp;hl=en -- Original Message -- From: "Jose Javier Blanco Rivero" To: "Burgin, Mark" Cc: "Fis," Sent: 5/17/2018 12:47:04 PM Subject: Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis Dear FISers, I recently came across an old interview to W. van Orma

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis

2018-05-17 Thread Dai Griffiths
What is a 'thing'? Perhaps it is more reasonable to think that  only processes exist, and that for human convenience in living in the world we put conceptual membranes around some parts of those processes and call them 'things'. From this point of view we do not have two aspects (things and p

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis

2018-05-17 Thread Jose Javier Blanco Rivero
Dear FISers, I recently came across an old interview to W. van Orman Quine and I got an idea -maybe not very original per se. Quine distinguishes two kind of philosophical problems: ontological (those referred to the existence of things) and predicative (what can we say and know about things). Ag

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis

2018-05-17 Thread Søren Brier
en Fra: Fis På vegne af Krassimir Markov Sendt: 17. maj 2018 11:33 Til: fis@listas.unizar.es; Burgin, Mark Emne: Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis Dear Mark and FIS Colleagues, First of all. I support the idea of Mark to write a paper and to publish it in IJ ITA. It will be ni

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis

2018-05-17 Thread Krassimir Markov
. “physical” include “mental” include “structural”. Finally, IF “information is physical, structural and mental” THEN simply the “information is physical”! Friendly greetings Krassimir From: Burgin, Mark Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2018 5:20 AM To: fis@listas.unizar.es Subject: Re: [Fis] Is

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? A logical analysis

2018-05-16 Thread Burgin, Mark
Dear FISers, It was an interesting discussion, in which many highly intelligent and creative individuals participated expressing different points of view. Many interesting ideas were suggested. As a conclusion to this discussion, I would like to suggest a logical analysis of the problem

[Fis] Fwd: Re: [FIS] Is information physical?

2018-05-14 Thread tozziarturo
Daer Bruno, first of all, sorry for the previous private communication, but for a mistake, I did not add the FIS list in the CC. Concerning your Faith, i.e., arithmetic, this appraoch... simply does not work for the description of physical and biological issues. It is just in our mind. Se

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? OR Does the information exist without the carrier?

2018-04-27 Thread Alex Hankey
and may be > measured by other objects. > > To understand more clearly, let see the case of “time”. > > Does the time really exist? > > Does the time exist without real regular processes which we may reflect > and compare? > > The time is falling drops of water, the

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? OR Does the information exist without the carrier?

2018-04-27 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
ing drops of water Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 4:47 AM To: fis@listas.unizar.es Subject: Re: [Fis] Is information physical? Dear Colleagues, I would like to suggest the new topic for discussion Is information physical? My opinion is presented below: Why

Re: [Fis] Is information physical?

2018-04-27 Thread joe.bren...@bluewin.ch
2:35 (PDT) À : tozziart...@libero.it Cc : fis@listas.unizar.es Objet : Re: [Fis] Is information physical? OR Does the information exist without the carrier? Dear Folks, I suspect I am past quota for the week. Apologies for that. 1. Work in logic and mathematics is scientific even if mathematicians and

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? OR Does the information exist without the carrier?

2018-04-27 Thread Louis H Kauffman
words, can the color, speed, weigh, temperature, time, etc., exist >>> without objects which these characteristics belong to and may be measured >>> by other objects. >>> >>> To understand more clearly, let see the case of “time”. >>> >>> Does the time r

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? 'Signs rust.'

2018-04-27 Thread Karl Javorszky
; >De : u...@umces.edu > >Date : 25/04/2018 - 08:14 (PDT) > >À : mbur...@math.ucla.edu > >Cc : fis@listas.unizar.es > >Objet : Re: [Fis] Is information physical? > > > >Dear Mark, > > > >I share your inclination, albeit from a different perspective. >

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? 'Signs rust.'

2018-04-27 Thread Guy A Hoelzer
a.edu<mailto:mbur...@math.ucla.edu> Cc : fis@listas.unizar.es<mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es> Objet : Re: [Fis] Is information physical? Dear Mark, I share your inclination, albeit from a different perspective. Consider the two statements: 1. Information is impossible without a physica

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? OR Does the information exist without the carrier?

2018-04-27 Thread tozziarturo
ature, time, etc., exist >>>without objects which these characteristics belong to and may be measured by >>>other objects.   >>>To understand more clearly, let see the case of “time”. >>>Does the time really exist? >>>Does the time exist   w ithout real re

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? OR Does the information exist without the carrier?

2018-04-27 Thread Bruno Marchal
ve “time”? >> >> >> I think, we have a question in two interrelated explanations: >> >> - Is information physical? >> >> - Does the information exist without the carrier? >> >> >> Friendly greetings >> >> Krassimir >>

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? 'Signs rust.'

2018-04-26 Thread Mark Johnson
ces.edu" Cc: "fis@listas.unizar.es" Subject: Re: [Fis] Is information physical? 'Signs rust.' Information refers to changes in patterns of energy flow, some slow (frozen), some fast, some quantitative and measurable, some qualitative and non-measurable, some meaningful and s

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? 'Signs rust.'

2018-04-26 Thread joe.bren...@bluewin.ch
time. Best wishes, Joseph >Message d'origine >De : u...@umces.edu >Date : 25/04/2018 - 08:14 (PDT) >À : mbur...@math.ucla.edu >Cc : fis@listas.unizar.es >Objet : Re: [Fis] Is information physical? > >Dear Mark, > >I share your inclination, albeit from a dif

Re: [Fis] Is information physical?

2018-04-25 Thread Ulanowicz, Robert
Dear Mark, I share your inclination, albeit from a different perspective. Consider the two statements: 1. Information is impossible without a physical carrier. 2. Information is impossible without the influence of that which does not exist. There is significant truth in both statements. I kno

Re: [Fis] Is information physical? OR Does the information exist without the carrier?

2018-04-25 Thread Louis H Kauffman
tion exist without the carrier? > > > Friendly greetings > > Krassimir > > > From: Burgin, Mark <mailto:mbur...@math.ucla.edu> > the movement of the pendulum > > falling drops of water > > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 4:47 AM &

Re: [Fis] Is information physical?

2018-04-25 Thread Karl Javorszky
The question „Is information physical?” relates to the equivalence between two mental/emotional contents of the brain, and can be compared to “Is A = B ?” at first sight. In the form the question is posed, it is rendered in a more empathic fashion in the form “Does A contain a sufficiently large pr

Re: [Fis] Is information physical?

2018-04-25 Thread Jose Javier Blanco Rivero
Dear all, Following the ideas of Mark, Lou, Krassimir and Arturo, I think it is worth to insist on a proposal I made in this forum a few months ago. That is, the thesis of a general theory of communication media. (Before going on I would like to remark that the concepts used here do not designat

Re: [Fis] Is information physical?

2018-04-25 Thread Dai Griffiths
Thanks everyone, all very stimulating! On 25/04/18 03:47, Burgin, Mark wrote: Any reasonable person will tell that the textbook contains knowledge This is a metaphor. It is helpful in managing the complex relationships of humans with media, but will lead us into tangles if we believe that it i

Re: [Fis] Is information physical?

2018-04-25 Thread Gyorgy Darvas
Hi all, Information is information. There is no reason to bundle it under any other genus. There are physical information! (Cf., my paper at the Vienna conference, 2015.) ... And there are other (non-physical) information. Other approach: Information follows, in certain aspects, some laws of

Re: [Fis] Is information physical?

2018-04-25 Thread Mark Johnson
Dear Lou and Mark, Thanks for this - it is very important. A quick question: why does it have to one or the other? Does the law of the excluded middle apply to information? Why can't it be both? As a way of extending this, can I suggest that the boundary between the physical and the non-physical

Re: [Fis] Is information physical?

2018-04-24 Thread Xueshan Yan
ter Society Pr., 1993. pp. 333~337. From: fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es On Behalf Of Louis H Kauffman Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 12:52 PM To: Burgin, Mark Cc: fis@listas.unizar.es Subject: Re: [Fis] Is information physical? Dear Mark, Thank you for suggesting this topic. I concur who

Re: [Fis] Is information physical?

2018-04-24 Thread Louis H Kauffman
Dear Mark, Thank you for suggesting this topic. I concur wholeheartedly with your stand on this matter. Information in the sense that you indicate is pattern that is independent of the particular substrate on which it is ‘carried’. There is a persistent myth in popular scientific culture that ma

Re: [Fis] Is information physical?

2018-04-24 Thread Burgin, Mark
Dear Colleagues, I would like to suggest the new topic for discussion Is information physical? My opinion is presented below: Why some people erroneously think that information is physical The main reason to think that information is physical is the stron