Re: [Fis] FW: Cognitive Effects of Cognitive Research: Photographic evidence

2013-01-31 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Dear colleagues, It seems to me that this notion of "constraint" can be compared with Maturana's "structural coupling". How would one operationalize it in terms of information theory? The "constraint" is different from a condition, because a conditional probability distribution also impli

Re: [Fis] Cognitive Effects of Cognitive Research: Photographic evidence

2013-01-31 Thread Robert Ulanowicz
I'm most grateful to both Bob L. for sharing his manuscript with FIS and to Loet for his new ms on 3-D mutual information. (I am on the road, but will read it as soon as I return home.) It's so gratifying to live long enough to see these leads in information theory taken up by others and imp

Re: [Fis] Cognitive Effects of Cognitive Research: Photographic evidence

2013-01-31 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Dear Bob, I should perhaps have clarified that in the text of which I sent the abstract around yesterday, I formulate at p. 10 (in honour of Bob Ulanowicz) as follows: With the same enthusiasm which Krippendorff (2009a) reports about Ashby (1969), one of us embraced this potentially negati