From: "Koichiro Matsuno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Folks,
John Collier's distinction between "restrict and enable" in the form of
constraints reminds me once again of the remarks on boundary conditions
made by Michael Polanyi back in the sixties. This
Ted Goranson made the remark
> I propose that we take Pedro's challenge seriously and have a discussion
> not about information, but about why we are gathering to talk about
> information here.
This reminds me of something quite illustrative. That is a chemistry on the
verge of the origin of wha
many. That is an issue of quantum gravity and life. Anyway, life is
short." Granted.
Best,
Koichiro Matsuno
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Folks,
Joseph wrote:
>my and Kevin K.'s basic question of whether /new evidence exists of any
>interaction between the
world modeled by fluctuons and the thermodynamic world/ has in my opinion not
been answered.
Evidence is very old.
In a nutshell, mechanics is about the equality o
Dear Kassimir, Pedro and FIS Colleagues,
Many thanks for your concerns to the natural disaster hitting the northern
part of Japan during
the past few days. Please let us have some time to survive this hard fact of
life.
Regards,
Koichiro Matsuno (now near Tokyo)
From
Dear Loet and All,
Your remark “what is communicated and why?” sounds suggestive in many
respects. If the question is paraphrased into “what is communicated by what?”,
the perennially perplexing issue of what is time would come up to the surface
once again since the temporality of communi
Folks,
Joseph wrote:
Two aspects of the exchange between Koichiro and Loet merit attention: 1) Loet
said that his point of replacing “why” with “what” did not seem necessary to
him. In my mind, however, when Koichiro refers to “what is communicated by
what”, he is insisting on not los
Dear Joseph,
> I feel that in point 3. of your note you describe a key to time but you do
> not use it!
Right. The last time, I skipped over something. The issue is how to
descriptively approach phenomenological time via the interplay between real,
physical systems without prior referen
Dear Loet, Joseph and All,
Let me just clarify the difference making a difference between both of you
and me.
First, to Loet;
> In other words: time is a construct of language?
The answer will be yes if the physicist accepts time when preparing an
authentic user’s manual on
contrast, the individual-class dichotomy accessible to third person
descriptions such as
the dichotomy of each probabilistic event and its distribution would have to be
explicit and
definite with regard to both the individuals and the class from the outset.
Cheers,
Koichiro Matsuno
trusted propositional
calculus, while the judge (the internalist) was also right in faithfully
executing the sentence. But
both cannot be right at the same time. Despite that, the internalist could
finally come to preside
over this empirical world. I had a hard time to convince myself of it. Strange?
At 9:14 PM 09/05/2014, Pedro wrote:
Who knows, focusing on varieties of bookkeeping might be quite productive!
[KM] Pedro, your kick was loud enough to waken me up from my long
hibernation. Suppose there are many things popping up here and there
concurrently with no synchronization among them on
At 5:37 PM 01/20/2015, Malcom Dean wrote:
Entropy is a mathematical variable which balances equations, but cannot
possibly describe the conditions and actual processes which lead to work,
enable its completion, or detail its purpose.
May I add some qualifications? Entropy must be a ni
At 9:36 PM 06/17/2015, Pedro wrote:
... What if information belongs to action,
[KM] This is a good remark suggesting that information may go beyond the
standard stipulation of first-order logic. A great advantage of mathematics
grounded upon first-order logic is to enjoy the provability or comp
At 4:00 AM 06/27/2015, John Collier wrote:
I also see no reason that Bateson’s difference that makes a difference needs to
involve meaning at either end.
[KM] Right. The phrase saying “a difference that makes a difference” must be a
prototypical example of second-order logic in that the
At 6:19 PM 06/27/2015, Loet Leydersdorff wrote:
Remains the need to specify:
1. The first difference [cf. Shannon's information bits];
2. The second difference [cf. Brillouin's negentropy];
[KM] Loet, if you stick to first-order logic, there would be no need for
recruiting an
At 4:13 AM 07/27/2015, Luis de Marcos Ortega wrote:
a) cycles can imply infinite loops that in our opinion are not appropriate
to model human actions
b) even considering cycles a set of actions can still be modeled a as a
tree, so we consider that loops add unnecessary complexity to the model
At 4:38 AM 10/6/2015, Stan wrote:
Then we need to consider which life cycle we are going to investigate. One
conversation? The duration of conference?, etc.
Cycles are really enigmatic. Listening to the same old story repeating itself
may sound tedious. However, there is one exception. If
At 4:28 AM 11/27/2015, John C. wrote:
A paper by my former graduate advisor, Jeff Bub, who was a student of David
Bohm's.
http://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/17/11/7374
The Measurement Problem from the Perspective of an Information-Theoretic
Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Yes, Bub's
At 4:09PM 01/15/2016 John C wrote:
It [The relevant material] concerns the use of changed boundary conditions to
move things rather than energy differences,
Perhaps, this must be one of the neatest expressions of what information
could be all about in the empirical world. Even thermody
At 2:43 AM 01/19/2016, Jerry wrote:
In order for symbolic chemical communication to occur, the language must go
far beyond such simplistic notions of a primary interaction among forces,
such as centripetal orbits or even the four basic forces.
The quark physicist is quirky in confining
cond is oriented and made
> meaning-ful by the life cycle of the entity.
>
> Well, if we separate communication from the phenomenon of life, from
> its intertwining with the life cycle of the entity, then everything
goes...
> and yes, quarks communicate, as well as billiard balls, stones, c
actual conditionals on the ground of first come, first served.
Koichiro Matsuno
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be quite a newbie in the
philosopher-dominating time-honored discipline addressing the hard issue of
what both space and time may look like, it might be able to enjoy some chance
of bringing in something new empirically there.
Koichiro Matsuno
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choice.
Information may also follow suit.
Koichiro Matsuno
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Subject: [Fis] Heretic
Dear FISers,
After the provided long list of completely dif
we can luckily escape from the entrapment by “anything
goes”. Whether such an internal coordination could be likely must be totally an
empirical matter. This issue may be most crucial for the origins of life
anywhere. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
Koichiro Matsuno
centripetality of Bob Ulanowicz at long
last under the guise of chemical affinity unless the case would have to
forcibly be dismissed.
This has been my second post this week.
Koichiro Matsuno
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conservation, is already
sufficiently informational in referring to what the autonomy is all about on
the physical basis.
Koichiro Matsuno
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additional
ontological commitment required here is kept to a bare minimum such as allowing
for res potentia for the individuals.
Koichiro Matsuno
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Sent: Friday, October 27, 2017 3:09 AM
To: Terrence W. DEACON
of whether or not it may have already
been called informational. It is quite different from what statistical
mechanics has accomplished so far. Something called quantum thermodynamics is
gaining its momentum somewhere these days.
Koichiro Matsuno
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be
persistent and durable that may be accessible in the present tense, though
somewhat in a more abstract manner compared to the record of concrete
particulars.
Koichiro Matsuno
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is called communication in time may significantly be
differentiated depending upon the extent to which time would differ from
being merely indexical.
All the best,
Koichiro
Koichiro Matsuno
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nation of the role between utterer and respondent
proceeds discretely temporally. (Bio)semiotician may seem to be sensitive to
this issue of time.
Koichiro Matsuno
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the linear sequence of the now points is not
available to the local participants because of the lack of the physical means
for guaranteeing the sharing of the same now-point among themselves.
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, there should be no such fragility in the
single-authored discourse by definition, while bilateral transactions are
inevitable in our everyday life in any case.
Koichiro Matsuno
Yes, that looks a lucrative technology making our current Internet more
secured. But it also has
Folks,
Jerry Chandler's concern on encoding and
decoding quantum information is a serious matter although I am not well versed
in what quantum information is all about. Quantum information to theoretical
physicists must be something manipulative to them. In contrast, signal
processing i
Folks,
As responding to Michel's question:
> when A and B are events of void intersection, the equality
> P (A U B) = P(A) + P(B)
> could be violated ? Or what else ?
Andrei answered:
>Yes.
My entry is yes and no. A key is in how to prepare an ensemble of events
through the act of identific
Folks,
Pedro's question
>The "physical" existentiality of physical laws
>themselves looks intriguing ---where do they "seat"?
is neither naive nor trivial, though sounds quite disturbing to many. My
story is this.
Most people seems to accept the Greek tradition of Euclidean geometry to
so
Folks,
Just for the sake of balance, let me refer to one school of thought which
has been quite under-represented so far. That is the probabilistic
interpretation and formulation of QM grounded upon chance events instead of
ignorance on the part of the observer. An example is a photographic emu
Folks,
Stan's "Nature abhors gradients" is a thermodynamic imperative, which QM
has to live with. QM is instrumental for fabricating gradients and consumers
harnessing them. What is intriguing here is that some gradients have already
been frozen to some other consumers, like the nuclear binding
Stan,
The relationship between QM and dissipation, of prime importance to
biology, is quite intriguing because of the unbridgeable gap between the
two. One is discontinuous when measurement intervenes, while the other is
continuous. A nice thing about the probabilistic scheme is that it makes t
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