John Collier
Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Associate
Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal
http://web.ncf.ca/collier
From: John Collier
Sent: Tuesday, 28 March 2017 9:39 AM
To: 'darvasg' <darv...@iif.hu>
Subject: RE: [Fis] non-living objects COULD NOT “exchange information”
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Dear Krassimir,
They can
For details, see my contrinution to the 2015 Vienna IS4IS meeting and
following publications of the proceedings!
Best, Gyuri
24.03.2017 16:25 időpontban Krassimir Markov ezt írta:
> Dear Arturo and FIS Colleagues,
> Let me remember that:
> The basic
1) Let me second to the point Alex raises:
machines, computers, do exchange information. It would be against cultural
conventions to say that the notification that the refrigerator sends to
your phone's app "to-do-list" of the content "milk only 0.5 liter
available" is not an information.
The
BUT, in common parlance, computers and mobile phones 'exchange information'
(in the abstract, digital sense) all the time. Including this email.
If you wish to cleanly restrict yourself to semantic content, the the form
of information that I presented to FiS a year ago offers the only
24 mars 2017 kl. 16:25 skrev Krassimir Markov
>:
Dear Arturo and FIS Colleagues,
Let me remember that:
The basic misunderstanding that non-living objects could “exchange
information” leads to many principal theoretical as well as psychological