Re: [Fis] fis Digest, Vol 570, Issue 2

2013-04-16 Thread john . holgate
-- Original Message ----- From:y...@pku.edu.cn To: Cc: Sent:Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:52:40 +0800 Subject:Re: [Fis] fis Digest, Vol 570, Issue 2 Dear Pedro, Dear Joseph, About the Milton Keynes Conference, i.e., about DTMD definition, we saw this quote long long ago, but there two differe

Re: [Fis] fis Digest, Vol 570, Issue 2

2013-04-16 Thread John Collier
As I said in a previous post, I believe it originated in unpublished work of mine in which I thought that MacKay had said this, but it appears that it was interpretation of what he thought. I apologize for the confusion. It is very remarkable that it has been disseminated so widely. Had I publish

Re: [Fis] fis Digest, Vol 570, Issue 2

2013-04-14 Thread Julio Stern
All the best, ---Julio Stern From: lo...@physics.utoronto.ca Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2013 09:45:54 -0400 To: y...@pku.edu.cn CC: fis@listas.unizar.es Subject: Re: [Fis] fis Digest, Vol 570, Issue 2 Dear Dr. Yan I make reference to the MacKay quote in my article that can be found here: www.mdpi.com/2

Re: [Fis] fis Digest, Vol 570, Issue 2

2013-04-14 Thread Bob Logan
Dear Dr. Yan I make reference to the MacKay quote in my article that can be found here: www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/3/1/68/pdf I make reference to Hayles, K. How We Became Posthuman; University of Chicago Press: Chicago, IL, USA, 1999. where you will find an extensive discussion of Donald MacKay'

Re: [Fis] fis Digest, Vol 570, Issue 2

2013-04-14 Thread Xueshan Yan
Dear Pedro, Dear Joseph, About the Milton Keynes Conference, i.e., about DTMD definition, we saw this quote long long ago, but there two different sayings: One is "Information is a distinction that makes a difference" from Donald M. MacKay in his "Information, Mechanism and Meaning" (1969), and an