Re: [Fis] INTELLIGENCE & INFORMATION (by Y.X.Zhong) on phenomenology and Cybersemiotics

2010-12-13 Thread Robert Ulanowicz
Dear Søren, Bravo for coming to the defense of phenomenology! As I wrote to Joseph offline: "Why make excuses for phenomenology? As an engineer, I consider it the necessary foundation for science. When theory and phenomenology collide (as with Newtonianism and the atomic theory in the 19th

Re: [Fis] INTELLIGENCE & INFORMATION (by Y.X.Zhong) on phenomenology and Cybersemiotics

2010-12-13 Thread Søren Brier
Dear Joseph I am sorry not to have had time this semester to participate in the discussion this semester, but I want to support your approach of taking a phenomenological aspect seriously. I cannot see how we can avoid taken the human experience serious as an important part of reality, which is