JOSEPH: If the principle of scale hierarchy says that information flows are
not possible across scales, perhaps we need to take another look at that
principle ;-).
S: Let me be more specific; no information flows UNMEDIATED across
levels whose changes occur at different scales. Example: mol
rgues that reality is an
informational structure.
The it-part is in the "structure" which assumes the specification of a
system of reference.
In evolutionary terms: structure is deterministic/selective; Shannon-type
information measures only variation/uncertainty.
Best wishes,
Loet
Dear Rafael,
Ø Otherwise bits turns into digital metaphysics
Not necessarily if we take that dual nature seriously. They are both waves and
particles.
I have also written in that sense several times, among others in
http://mdh.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:120541/FULLTEXT01
Dear Loet,
They simply are an "it-bit" like in Informational Structural Realism of
Floridi who (using different reasoning) argues that reality is an
informational structure.
The it-part is in the "structure" which assumes the specification of a
system of reference.
In evolutionary terms: structure is de
dear Gordana
just because the bit-view of reality one possible view is. Otherwise
bits turns into digital metaphysics.
Floridi: he is contradictory. He says/said that the infosphere is not
the cybetspace, then yes, then no... Then he says that forms are on a
"higher level of abstraction" that
Dear all,
Regarding the very interesting discussion of "it" from "bit" and vice versa.
Usually each level of information processing (semantic, algorithmic,
implementational) presupposes some "it" in which "bit" is implemented. In
computing, recursions must have a bottom.
Could it be the case t
Dear Joe,
Please let me start by repeating my idea that fluctuons are "its", that is,
energy in some form. If (mathematical) idealism is anti-realist, this is
certainly not what I would consider Conrad's theory to be. Stan comes to the
same conclusion, that fluctuons are its, but this suggests
