At 05:33 PM 2009/11/14, you wrote: >While not suggesting a discussion on this, I note that > >John says -- "information and the interpretation of information are >different from >each other" > >I think this is not as clear cut as that. Beginning all the way >back to von Uexkull's >Theoretical Biology, the constructivist perspective takes a >different view. The >'epistemic cut' is created by the observer.
The observer is part of the universe and deserves no special status except as a representer. That must be understood in terms of the basic conditions of the universe. This sort of dualism of epistemic cuts is doomed to self-destruction as it removes the observer from the universe. John ---------- Professor John Collier colli...@ukzn.ac.za Philosophy and Ethics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041 South Africa T: +27 (31) 260 3248 / 260 2292 F: +27 (31) 260 3031 http://www.ukzn.ac.za/undphil/collier/index.html _______________________________________________ fis mailing list fis@listas.unizar.es https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis
