[Fis] new book on symmetry
Dear FISers, Birkhaeuser publishes a new monograph on Symmetry with several relevant aspects to information science in February. http://www.symmetry.hu/new_books.html 20 % discount for orders before release! Enjoy, Gyuri Gyorgy Darvas E-mail / Skype: [EMAIL PROTECTED] S Y M M E T R I O N Address: c/o MTA KSZI; 18 Nador St., Budapest, H-1051 Hungary Mailing address: P.O. Box 994, Budapest, H-1245 Hungary Fax: 36 (1) 331-3161 Phone: 36 (1) 312-3022; 36 (1) 331-3975 Monograph: Symmetry Now 20 % pre-release discount offer! ___ fis mailing list fis@listas.unizar.es http://webmail.unizar.es/mailman/listinfo/fis
[Fis] information/complexity limits
Dear FIS colleagues, In Nature 444, 9 Nov. 2006, there is an experimental paper on quantum limits to heat flow and also to electronic current. It is quite interesting that the editorial comments by the Journal relate to maximum information content and foundations of information physics (p. 161). Seemingly, the expression of this informational limit would be quite similar for electrons, phonons, photons, gravitons... Am sure that incorrectly, but it has given me room to further speculate that information as distinction on the adjacent should be always caught under topological/dimensional limits of adjacency, irrespective that time extension (in a non non-Markovian subject) and space extension through specialized channels may increase the distinctional capability. As Karl as put very often in this list (irrespective of my procedural disagreements), distinctions also run into an inherent logical limit, measured by multidimensional partitions. Does the above, empirical limitation pay tribute, somehow, to the previous logical one? Maybe the topic also relates to the current discussion on social complexity. Couldn't we argue that the effort to overcome the complexity limits of the individual regarding the connection with the whole group is also at the roots of most of institutional/technical communicational evolution, in any society? The research on social networks today pays a lot of attention to this type of limitation phenomena, e.g., how many bonds and of which types can be created, maintained, etc. by the individual --or by enterprises. best greetings, Pedro ___ fis mailing list fis@listas.unizar.es http://webmail.unizar.es/mailman/listinfo/fis
Re: [Fis] Continuing Discussion of Social and Cultural Complexity
Dear Joseph, I think it is a mistake to consider the brain in isolation as a structural complexity. Especially, if your goal is to lead to questions of social and cultural complexity. It seems to me that aspects of form independent of the structural complexity of the human brain are likely to introduce dominant complexities that are transparent to such an analysis. For example, height and weight, gender, ethnicity and social status are eliminated in such an analysis and each of these are contributors to social and cultural complexity that is unrelated to the superficial complexity in the form of the brain. I also think it is an error to consider the brain in isolation to the rest of the physiological form in general, but that seems to be quite a different objection. With respect, Steven -- Dr. Steven Ericsson-Zenith Institute for Advanced Science Engineering http://iase.info On Jan 26, 2007, at 1:31 PM, Joseph Tainter wrote: ... The immediate example is not social/cultural complexity (although the example certainly generates social and cultural complexity), but something more fundamental: the complexity of the human brain. As I hope to show, some questions about brain complexity lead into general questions about social and cultural complexity, and indeed about complexity in general. ... ___ fis mailing list fis@listas.unizar.es http://webmail.unizar.es/mailman/listinfo/fis
