Dear all, Just a few quick comments to relate this current discussion back to scientific communication:
1. Taking information seriously must entail taking "communicating what we think about information" seriously - and exploring different ways of communicating what we think. 2. When I made my videos for this discussion, all I did was add redundancy through a richer channel of communication. 3. The high number of recent posts suggest to me that the 'comfort zone' of the group is clearly in exchanging philosophical positions about information using low bandwidth communication media (text). Reflecting on how we talk to each other is less comfortable and more difficult. However, the philosophical discussions seem go round in circles (we have had them so often before) - why? How would the debate look if more redundancy was added to the communication? It would, I suggest, reveal more about the constraints of different positions. I'm sure this could be empirically explored. Best wishes, Mark On 5 November 2016 at 06:17, Emanuel Diamant <emanl....@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Pedro, > > Dear FIS colleagues, > > > > Because our current discussion (dubbed “Scientific Communication”, announced > by Pedro at Sept. 22, 2016) has deviated from its original purpose and > shifted to our main and most relevant point of interest “What is > information”, I dare to remind you about my personal views on the subject: > Information is a complex notion. Like the notion of complex numbers in > mathematics (which are composed of a real and imaginary parts), Information > can be seen as composed of a real and an imaginary part – Physical > information and Semantic Information. Physical information is a > generalization of Shannon, Fisher, Kolmogorov, Chaitin, and as such > informations. Semantic information still does not have its recognized > definition. My attempts to spell out its destiny could be find on my site > http://www.vidia-mant.info or at the Research Gate. > > > > Best regards, > > Emanuel. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Fis mailing list > Fis@listas.unizar.es > http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis > -- Dr. Mark William Johnson Institute of Learning and Teaching Faculty of Health and Life Sciences University of Liverpool Visiting Professor Far Eastern Federal University, Russia Phone: 07786 064505 Email: johnsonm...@gmail.com Blog: http://dailyimprovisation.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ Fis mailing list Fis@listas.unizar.es http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis
