Re: [Fis] The notion of meaning... (impredicativity)

2009-04-06 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear Christophe and Giuseppe, Thanks for the recent comments, really exciting . There is a direct connection between quantum unpicturability (but do not have here the proper reference; it is one of the simplifications which allows approaching chemical bonds by making them independent on the

Re: [Fis] The notion of meaning... (impredicativity)

2009-04-02 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Thanks, Christophe. These days I am involved in a paper on prokaryotic intelligence, and have laterally approached the problem of cellular meaning. I am copying a fragment below (not corrected yet). Rosen's impredicativity looks to me an important concept to clarify things. However, rather

Re: [Fis] The notion of meaning... (impredicativity)

2009-04-02 Thread Christophe Menant
: Towards a New Paradigm for Cognitive Science. Cambridge MA: MIT Press. 2008. Forthcoming.) . Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2009 11:18:30 +0200 From: pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es To: christophe.men...@hotmail.fr CC: fis@listas.unizar.es Subject: Re: [Fis] The notion of meaning... (impredicativity

Re: [Fis] The notion of meaning... (impredicativity)

2009-04-02 Thread Giuseppe Longo
On Thursday 02 April 2009, Pedro C. Marijuan wrote: It conduces to realizing that the information processing of living cells is not of the same class than the processes of formal, predicative nature (computation). Why computational processes should be necessarely predicative? Girard's Type