Bill,
if you go to
http://www.capurro.de/info5.html
you will find on p. 225 ff my interpretation of MacKay's information
concept in the context of other theories of that time
See particularly footnote 440: Information: that which determines form
and that which justifies representational
I am afraid that it was my fault. I thought I recalled a quote, but actually it
is an interpretation of Mackay. Sorry about that. Amazing that it spread so
much, but that probably reflects that it is endemic in Mackay's work.
John
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From: fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es
Dear All,
I visited the von Foerster / Pask Cybernetics Archive in Vienna (which
includes many MacKay texts) and went into depth related to MacKay in the spring
of last year. It is very interesting to read his ideas about information as
compared to the Shannon and Weaver's
