Quoting Michael Devereux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Dear Michael,
You wrote:
and symmetry breaking tend to address the second - formal - cause the
statement
of essence (X is what it is to be Y). [in-form-ation]. Von Weiszacker and L
yre
's pragmatic school found information on the efficient cause
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Quoting Michael Devereux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Thanks Michael for your cogent reply.
I understand Landauer's insight not as an analysis of the logical
structure of information, nor of its ubiquitous utility throughout
human endeavors, but rather as a more precise description of the
mechanisms
Dear Xueshan,
Another interesting source for Bateson's DTMD is inĀ 'Angels Fear:
towards an epistemiology of the sacred' (1988):
'That which gets from territory to map is news of difference, and at
that point I recognized that news of difference was a synonym for
information' (http://www
Steven, Joe
I always understood that the action of information is the introduction of 'new
and doubtful concepts' (Bateson's 'news of a difference that makes a
difference') and is in fact predicated on doubt, probability, uncertainty.
John H
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Hi Pedro, Rafael
Thanks for a fascinating session which opened up some windows and let in some
(occasionally foggy)air. But I still see the possibility a future IS which
will redefine metaphysics, ethics and science itself (a bit like Ted G.)
where the essential shape of 'in-form-ation' is ident