Re: [Fis] Revisiting the Fluctuon Model

2010-09-28 Thread Joseph Brenner
. Thank you and best wishes, Joseph - Original Message - From: Koichiro Matsuno To: fis@listas.unizar.es Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2010 5:55 AM Subject: Re: [Fis] Revisiting the Fluctuon Model Folks, Kevin Kirby's opening remark on the Fluctuon model

Re: [Fis] Revisiting the Fluctuon Model

2010-09-28 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear FISers, Thanks to Kevin and Joseph for their excellent texts --and to the many other responding parties. For my own argumentation purposes I find very useful the comments from Stan, Kevin Clark, Koichiro. There are three different aspects I would like to deal with. Given my burden of

Re: [Fis] Revisiting the Fluctuon Model

2010-09-27 Thread Koichiro Matsuno
Folks, Kevin Kirby's opening remark on the Fluctuon model of Michael Conrad shed light on the role of information in physics and beyond. Here is some peripheral remark of my own, though a bit lengthy. 1) Practicing physics may look informational in exercising its own

Re: [Fis] Revisiting the Fluctuon Model

2010-09-25 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Dear Joe, Please let me start by repeating my idea that fluctuons are its, that is, energy in some form. If (mathematical) idealism is anti-realist, this is certainly not what I would consider Conrad's theory to be. Stan comes to the same conclusion, that fluctuons are its, but this suggests

Re: [Fis] Revisiting the Fluctuon Model

2010-09-25 Thread Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
] Revisiting the Fluctuon Model Dear Joe, Please let me start by repeating my idea that fluctuons are its, that is, energy in some form. If (mathematical) idealism is anti-realist, this is certainly not what I would consider Conrad's theory to be. Stan comes to the same conclusion, that fluctuons

Re: [Fis] Revisiting the Fluctuon Model

2010-09-25 Thread Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
. Best, Gordana Best wishes, Gordana From: Rafael Capurro [mailto:raf...@capurro.de] Sent: den 25 september 2010 11:55 To: Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic Cc: Loet Leydesdorff; 'Joseph Brenner'; 'Stanley N Salthe'; fis@listas.unizar.es Subject: Re: [Fis] Revisiting the Fluctuon Model dear Gordana just

Re: [Fis] Revisiting the Fluctuon Model

2010-09-24 Thread Stanley N Salthe
Folks -- Comments upon Kirby’s Brenner’s ‘Opening Remarks’ (1) I used Conrad’s early information-based work in developing my conception of the scale/compositional hierarchy as applied to material systems. As a materialist, I may have ‘mis-read’ his work. I think this now, upon glimpsing