Dear Krassimir, Dear FIS,
I suspect one might find a way to answer this question about what
constitutes an agent in this paper by J.H. van Hateren:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.8314
Entitled: "What does Maxwell's demon want from life? When information
becomes functional and physical"
(which also
Dear FIS Colleagues,
We have two simple questions with simple answers.
The first was mine: What is “Agent”?
The second is from Jeremy Sherman:
"Can members remember a time when they experienced a fundamental shift in
their assumptions, methodology or questions through interactions on this
*INTRODUCTION*
Data is that what we see by using the eyes. Information is that what we do
not see by using the eyes, but we see by using the brain; because it is the
background to that what we see by using the eyes.
Data are the foreground, the text, which are put into a context by the
