[Fis] TEN PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION, FROM YET ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE

Dear Colleagues, Following this interesting and enlightening discussion I have got several thoughts that I would like to share with you. First of all it is a great pleasure to read variety of contributions, deep thoughts and insights, profound questions as well. This list so very often bright

[Fis] Fw: TEN PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION, FROM YET ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE. A Newer Kind of Science. Logic and Principle 4

Dear Gordana and Friends, In 2002, the cybernetician Stephen Wolfram published a massive book with the title, A New Kind of Science. For me, it was not: it was an attempt to explain the simplest, quasi-non-living structures of living systems by recourse to simple algorithms and a multitude of f

Re: [Fis] Fw: TEN PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION, FROM YET ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE. A Newer Kind of Science. Logic and Principle 4

Dear Joseph and All, Just to make my point on “New Kind of Science” clear. I am not saying that we should attempt Wolfram’s New Kind of Science (NKS) applied to information studies. In the spirit of inclusiveness, thinking primarily about what NKS did achieve, instead of what it did not, I would

Re: [Fis] Fw: PRINCIPLES OF IS. The Pre-Science of Information

Dear Terry and FIS colleagues, I think you make a good point. I was reminded on the problems my research group has found in the development of our "Sociotype project", cooperating with social science groups and psychologists. The lack of communication in between those closer to formal fields

Re: [Fis] Heretic

Dear colleagues In order to know the relations between living organisms and their environment, I use Brillouin's formula (and its fundamental thermodynamical signification) to compute the information contained in biological structures and the probability of events. It is written in french, b

[Fis] Principles of Information

Dear FISers, I have heartily welcomed Pedro's initiative to work out some principles of information definition quest. But the upsetting discussion unrolled around the issue pushes me to restrain my support for the Pedro's proposal. The problem (in my understanding) is that FIS discussants are

Re: [Fis] Heretic

On 4 Oct 2017 at 6:01 AM, tozziart...@libero.it wrote: my proposal is to forget about information, and to use your otherwise very valuable skills and efforts in other fields. This penetrating statement reminds me of another similar one made by John Bel