Replying to Pedro, who said:
Those hierarchical schemes that with a few categories cover realms and
realms of knowledge have an undeniable allure --but are they useful?
S: This depends upon the meaning of useful. As my work is in
Natural Philosophy, they are useful there in the sense of
Dear colleagues,
Maybe I should postpone these comments and have a careful reading of Bob's
paper, John's list of bionfo articles, and the many well-crafted arguments
exchanged these days---but as usual one is overwhelmed...
On the discussion track about complexity info limits (followed by
Replying to LOET, who said:
Dear colleagues,I agree with most of what is said, but it does not
apply to social systems because these -- and to a lesser extent also
psychological ones -- operate differently from the hierarchical
formations that are generated naturally. That is why we
Hi folks,
I'll take a few minutes from my moving and dealing with academic
emergencies at UKZN to make a comment here.
Jerry brings up a point that keeps arising in the literature one
constraints and information. Recall that Shannon said that they are the
same thing. That is a clue.
Loet and I
This is my reply to Jerry (acknowledging that John's reply to Jerry below
says it as well as -- probably better than -- I can), who said:
Stan's comment deserves to be attended to.
The many complexities facing us as society can be parsed as follows,
using a
specification hierarcy:
{physical
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Jerry brings up a point that keeps arising in the literature one constraints
and information. Recall
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