Dear John, Your response to Krassimir is interesting, but I think the question is what is the definition of "communication" on earth, it seems the definitons of both of you are not the same. And one more question is, is "information" itself meaningful? I completely agree with your approach to really understand Shannon. Best, Xiaohong
-------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: John Collier <colli...@ukzn.ac.za> To: Krassimir Markov <mar...@foibg.com>, "Pedro C. Marijuan" <pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es>, "fis@listas.unizar.es" <fis@listas.unizar.es> Subject: Re: [Fis] The Interaction Man Date: 2013-12-08 20:41 At 12:38 AM 2013/12/05, Krassimir Markov wrote: >Dear Pedro and FIS Colleagues, >This discussion is full with interesting ideas. >What I want to add is that I distinguish the concepts "communication" and >"information interaction" which reflect similar phenomena but at different >levels of live hierarchy. >Communication is a process of exchanging of "signals, messages" with >different degree of complexity (Shannon). >Information interaction is exchanging of information models. It is specific >only for intelligent agents but not for low levels of live mater (bio >molecules, cells, organs). >Main feature of intelligent agents is decision making based on information >models. >Information interaction is impossible without communication. >Friendly regards >Krassimir I would agree with distinguishing between communication and information interaction, but I infer exactly the opposite conclusion. Communication, it seems to me (and also according to the setup that is the basis for Shannon's approach) requires coding and decoding modules, but information transmission does not; it requires only a channel. Information needs to be decoded (given meaning) to be communication. At least that is what I read off of Shannon's model of communication theory. Maybe Krassimir is not talking about Shannon type information, and has a different model in mind. If this is the case, it would be nice if he were to make it explicit, since most people today at least start with Shannon's approach (or one of the two rough equivalents discussed by Kolmogorov) as basis that at least gives the syntax of information, with channel, coding and decoding required for a full communications channel, but left undefined by Shannon (though recent work has tried to fill these gaps). Cheers, 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://web.ncf.ca/collier _______________________________________________ fis mailing list fis@listas.unizar.es https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis
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