Dear FIS Colleagues,
Some brief responses to the different parties:
Marcus: there were several sessions dealing with info physics, where I
remember some historical connotations with mechanics emerged. Mostly
1998 and 2002 chaired by Koichiro Matsuno and 2004 by Michel Petitjean.
Afterwards th
My responses are in red
Bien reçu votre message. MERCI. Cordialement. M. Godron
Le 08/07/2016 à 14:42, Pedro C. Marijuan a écrit :
Dear FIS Colleagues,
Some brief responses to the different parties:
Marcus: there were several sessions dealing with info physics, where I
remember some historica
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John Collier
Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Associate
University of KwaZulu-Natal
http://web.ncf.ca/collier
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Sent: Friday, 08 July 2016 4:52 PM
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John, I read the English translation of Science and Information theory in
1976 and was profoundly influenced by it. I started doing so because I was
trying to understand conscious awareness at that time, and it struck me
that information theory was the closest thing to it in science at the time.
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Alex
a main problem I see with Brillouin (the same as with Shannon)
https://www.bibnum.education.fr/calculinformatique/theorie-de-l-information/naissance-de-la-theorie-de-l-information
is that he speaks about the transmission of information (with regard to
Shannon), while in fact it is a message
Shannon was dealing with the problem of mutually compatible encodings such
as comes up in the theory of cyphers etc, and arises in the control of
machines a la Wiener. He adopted the term 'Information Theory' at the
suggestion of Jon Von Neumann, and everyone accepted the appellation.
What an enco
