Re: [Fis] The State of the Art - Discussion of Information Science Education

Thanks Walter, A useful snapshot of PC (Philosophy of Computing). It reminds me that the origin of the word 'computing'   is com-putare = to consider together, suppose together, imagine together. This is surely what Steve Jobs was all about. To reduce computation to algorithmic calculation or eve

Re: [Fis] Fw: INTELLIGENCE & INFORMATION (by Y.X.Zhong)

Dear Jospeh, Speaking as a denizen of the anthroposphere and a practising info scientist I applaud your hermeneutic observation and add my two cents' worth to this potentially fascinating discussion. The Greek LEGEIN is also the root of LOGOS, LOGIC, INTELLECT, LEGIBILITY and one subdefinition (

Re: [Fis] Information states/informatives/partitions

Dear Pedro, You wrote:  so easily (only some selected parts of the extrinsic become external "information", those upon which the info entity will perform distinctional operations), but the intrinsic is not really reducible to a collection of variables and parameters, it is a life cycle in p

Re: [Fis] Information as Asymmetry/valence negative and positive

Joseph, You wrote: Your point about valence and the negative and positive faces of information is an intriguing question. In a sense each time we use the word itself we are invoking the Gre

Re: [Fis] Knowledge recombination/map/territory

ecombination (at least a way appears to formally distinguish in science between the "transience" of multidisciplinary approaches and the "permanence" after establishing an interdisciplinary success and creating thus a new discipline)... Well, I am sending copy of this message t

Re: [Fis] [Fwd: FW: Definition of Knowledge] Bill Hall/DIKW thoughts

Bill, Pedro Another useful recent background paper (for the bioinformatically-challenged like me) is Gunther Witzany's 'Biocommunication of unicellular and multicellular organisms' which invokes the Peircean triadicsign and explores the notion of self/non-self boundaries in bacteria and their ric

Re: [Fis] Knowledge recombination/information states?

Dear Pedro, You wrote: Thanks for your insightful comments and fascinating paper on prokaryotic intelligence, tactilisation, sensing and 'distinction on the adjacent'. To identify 'information states' at that level offers an interesting info parallel to Dale Antanitus's hypothesis about infotro

Re: [Fis] FW: Fw: Definition of Knowledge?Chrysippus's dog

Stanley, Christophe I agree natural language probably separates hominids from other primates etc. But what about 'information'? And inferencing? Remember 'Chrysippus's dog' who infers to the best explanation (abduction) when on reaching a junction of three paths sniffs two for the scent of his