John wrote:
"I should have said as well that my student, Scott Muller, (073014-1) was able to prove that the information content I refer to is unique. He uses group theory following he argument I made that information originates in symmetry breaking. His book is Asymmetry: The Foundation of Information (The Frontiers Collection) http://www.amazon.com/Asymmetry-Foundation- Information-Frontiers-Collection/dp/3540698833" I purchased his book about a month ago but have not had time to read it yet. It seems like the main content of the book would be consistent with my finding that many organizations (from blackbody radiations to enzymic catalysis to cell metbolism to brain fucntions to comsogenesis) can be viewed as having resulted fron random events obeying the Gaussian function (which is symmetric) selected or 'perturbed' by envrionmental inputs to produce long tailed distributions called the Planckian distributions (which can be mathemtically derived from the Gaussian function assuming some reasonable mechanisms). It is for this reason that I have started to refer to Plakcian distributions as "asymmetric Gaussian distributions" in my manuscript under preparation. It seems as though I should read your student's book and refer to it before completing my manuscript. If you have any other suggestions, please let me know. With all the best. Sung _____________________________________________________ Sungchul Ji, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy Rutgers University Piscataway, N.J. 08855 732-445-4701 www.conformon.net > <html> > <body> > At 06:57 PM 2014-07-30, Clark Goble wrote:<br><br> > <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""> > <blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On Jul 29, 2014, at 1:44 AM, > John Collier > <<a href="mailto:colli...@ukzn.ac.za";>colli...@ukzn.ac.za</a>> > wrote:<br><br> > I made the relevant distinctions in a book chapter in 1990, > <ul> > <li><a href="http://web.ncf.ca/collier/papers/intrinfo.pdf";>Intrinsic > Information</a> (1990) > </ul>but I had to introduce some new concepts and definitions to the > usual thermodynamic ones. The lack of those has caused multiple > confusions and misunderstandings when I have discussed the issues on > mailing lists. In particular I argued that dissipative and > non-dissipative is a scale dependent distinction. The goal was to ask > what the world must be like if we get information from the world, as some > philosophers hold. At that time I thought that semiotics was too far from > my audience that I didn't mention it, tough I have dome some extensions > in later papers. </blockquote><br> > Ill check those out John before going further. I think there are a lot > of hidden assumptions at play which I think need clarified or brought > out. My apologies for not having been part of the discussion in past > dialogs on this. <br> > </blockquote>I should have said as well that my student, Scott Muller, > was able to prove that the information content I refer to is unique. He > uses group theory following he argument I made that information > originates in symmetry breaking. His book is Asymmetry: The Foundation of > Information (The Frontiers Collection) > <a > href="http://www.amazon.com/Asymmetry-Foundation-Information-Frontiers-Collection/dp/3540698833"; > eudora="autourl"> > http://www.amazon.com/Asymmetry-Foundation-Information-Frontiers-Collection/dp/3540698833</a> > <br><br> > John<br> > </body> > <br> > > <body> > <hr> > Professor John > Collier > colli...@ukzn.ac.za<br> > Philosophy and Ethics, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban 4041 South > Africa<br> > T: +27 (31) 260 3248 / 260 2292 F: > +27 (31) 260 3031<br> > <a href="http://web.ncf.ca/collier"; eudora="autourl"> > Http://web.ncf.ca/collier<br> > </a></body> > </html> > >
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