Karl,
I think that the semiotic system of references or the 'world' in which
an organism is embedded is indeed a condition of possibility for the in-
or de-formational value for the organism (forms are transmitted 'as'
messages). What is poison or what healthy for an organism depends on
this c
Just a small detail on the information density of food (air, water, sensory
input, etc.) in medicine:
The DNA has a high informational value for the organism. Can it be said
that poison has also an informational value?
Can the de-constructive effect of a substance quantified based on the same
sem
Dear Colleagues,
I’d like to share a possible sensation as of today if true:
http://phys.org/news/2016-05-complex-life-billion-years-earlier.html
What would this mean in terms of our discussion about life and medicine?
Best.
Plamen
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 6:27 PM, Dr. Plamen L. Simeonov <
This is a very interesting note for me, John!
So, the modern symptomatic medicine, the collection of data about illness
characteristics has its roots in philosophy?
Best,
Plamen
On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 6:16 PM, John Collier wrote:
Caro Francesco & cari Tutti,
La ringrazio molto per i tuoi pensieri interessanti che associano il
dominio soggetto - medicina - con i principi economici di organizzazione.
I'll continue in English now. Thank you very much for your interesting
thoughts associating the subject domain - medicine
Plamen, Pedro --
It seems to me that perhaps Medicine should not look to mathematics for
support or underpinning so much as to SEMIOTICS (that is, Peircean
semiotics, being worked today as biosemiotics). Biosemiotics is, in the
verbal conceptual realm, almost as complex and messy as medicine, and
Daer Pedro,
thank you for your entertaining way of presenting my Sisyphus theme about
medicine in a nutshell, which was mostly enjoyable to read. Actually, you
are right, medicine is "messy", which qualifies it more like a liberal art
discipline rather than science, full of workshop type of hustle
Dear Plamen,
Thanks for the synthetic attempt. You have put together pretty complex
strands of thought that become too demanding for a general response. I
will concentrate in a few points.
What is Medicine? In what extent is it amenable to "integration"? Is
reductionism an anathema in medici
