Re: [Fis] A provocative issue

2016-12-12 Thread Rafael Capurro
Dear Pedro, your wise comments are no less inspiring for me than the last comments by Loet, namely that the concept of information is 'relative' to each context (and therefore 'objective' with regard to such context). This happens with other concepts too, of course. I said this in my PhD

Re: [Fis] A provocative issue

2016-12-12 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear Arturo and FISers We will forgive your life! Some other people in this list also have strong reservations to a single, canonical approach to information, either from Shannon, Boltzmann, or Fisher backgrounds. In my case, mostly biologically and socially grounded ("sociotype"), I see a

Re: [Fis] A provocative issue

2016-12-11 Thread John Collier
: Sunday, 11 December 2016 10:21 PM To: tozziart...@libero.it Cc: fis <fis@listas.unizar.es> Subject: Re: [Fis] A provocative issue Bravo Arturo - I totally agree - in a paper I co-authored with Stuart Kauffman and others we talked abut the relativity of information and the fact that infor

Re: [Fis] A provocative issue

2016-12-11 Thread John Collier
Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Associate Philosophy, University of KwaZulu-Natal http://web.ncf.ca/collier From: Fis [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] On Behalf Of tozziart...@libero.it Sent: Sunday, 11 December 2016 5:57 PM To: fis@listas.unizar.es Subject: [Fis] A provocative issue Dear

Re: [Fis] A provocative issue

2016-12-11 Thread Bob Logan
Bravo Arturo - I totally agree - in a paper I co-authored with Stuart Kauffman and others we talked abut the relativity of information and the fact that information is not an absolute. Here is the abstract of the paper and an excerpt from the paper that discusses the relativity of information.