RE: [PEIRCE-L] RE: [biosemiotics:8162] Re: Article on origina of the universe

2015-04-01 Thread John Collier
Ericsson-Zenith Sent: March 30, 2015 7:55 PM To: John Collier Cc: biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] RE: [biosemiotics:8162] Re: Article on origina of the universe If there is anything that I have learned at all, ever and anywhere, it is that because people

RE: [PEIRCE-L] RE: [biosemiotics:8162] Re: Article on origina of the universe

2015-04-01 Thread John Collier
Collier Cc: Steven Ericsson-Zenith; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu; biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] RE: [biosemiotics:8162] Re: Article on origina of the universe Perhaps it is not I that will not accept (the ad hominem) of anything that does not fit my conceptions? You are making

Re: [PEIRCE-L] RE: [biosemiotics:8162] Re: Article on origina of the universe

2015-04-01 Thread Steven Ericsson-Zenith
*To:* John Collier; peirce-l@list.iupui.edu; biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee *Subject:* Re: [PEIRCE-L] RE: [biosemiotics:8162] Re: Article on origina of the universe I remain unclear on what you are referring to with respect to the empirical results. I have long been involved with information theory

RE: [PEIRCE-L] RE: [biosemiotics:8162] Re: Article on origina of the universe

2015-04-01 Thread John Collier
@list.iupui.edu; biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee Subject: Re: [PEIRCE-L] RE: [biosemiotics:8162] Re: Article on origina of the universe Yes, I understood all this going in. Seth Lloyd, whom I like very much, is more less grounded than I'd like. Muller's thesis, with all respect, did not impress me. Where

Re: [PEIRCE-L] RE: [biosemiotics:8162] Re: Article on origina of the universe

2015-04-01 Thread Steven Ericsson-Zenith
:* Re: [PEIRCE-L] RE: [biosemiotics:8162] Re: Article on origina of the universe I remain unclear on what you are referring to with respect to the empirical results. I have long been involved with information theory. Where is my error, exactly? How do physicists, as you appear to claim, speak

Re: [PEIRCE-L] RE: [biosemiotics:8162] Re: Article on origina of the universe

2015-03-30 Thread Steven Ericsson-Zenith
If there is anything that I have learned at all, ever and anywhere, it is that because people think for a long time that it is so, it does not make it so. This is why humanity invented the scientific method and it is the entire reason for Epistemology as a discipline ... to keep us honest. You

[PEIRCE-L] RE: [biosemiotics:8162] Re: Article on origina of the universe

2015-03-30 Thread John Collier
“It from bit.” Information as the ground of “stuff”. Well I guess you have to have a modicum of understanding of the physics (my original field). To understand what is meant by the slogan it helps to study the writings on the topic of Wheeler, Gell-Mann and Seth Lloyd, and the literature on