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
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
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*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
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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
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
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
“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