DearFISers, I am athome, incubating a flu, and during a week or so I will be out of touch –justwith Morpheus. About the comments received, not having the messages here, Iwill try to remember the initial bunch of contents.
In Rafael’squestion on the info status of our concepts, I would take them as signals,sophisticate ones exchanged as mandated along our life cycles. My preference isfor Fuster “cognits” which try to approach language and thought under the basicprocessual unit of the nervous system: the action/perception cycle... We shouldnot go beyond the main science involved, in this case neuroscience, as forinstance a theory of consciousness is missing yet. So at the time being I wouldbe reluctant at trying to answer the great conceptual questions of classicalphilosophy. Johncomment on information physics is completely endorsed. Both quantum computingand cosmology are advancing informational approaches in very elegant ways. AsBob commented days ago, Heisenberg and Pauli principles contain that “absence”side which makes them susceptible of being expressed in info terms; perhaps themeasurement problem too (not to forget “ecosystems” within the catalog of infoentities). Stan is right when criticizes the truncateddecalog of “principles”. Let me put them as basic “propositions” temporarilyfielding the field... Jerry isalso right when demands a more fine tuned and less overlapping version. Aboutthe power law with exponential cutoff in the summands of natural numbers partitions,it is explained in a paper of Garcia Olivares and me: doi:10.1016/j.biosystems.2004.02.005 (“Emergence of power laws from partitional dynamics”). Loet’s preference forShannon (and only Shannon) is fine, but this was the status quo during last 60years... Joseph makes a well-addressed comment on the new knowledge needed forsustainability issues. This is timely, as complexity theorists have left thecommunication theme aside in their mathematical and computer centered vision,and an enlarged approach to information (absences, needs, signals, meaning,value, knowledge, recombination & networking, and so on) makes a lot ofsense in todays society. I think the whole Info Sci. enterprise is mature for a conjoint conference with avariety of scholarly and scientific organizations --eg, symmetry. And that was all. Pedro
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