[Fis] Philosophy, Computing, and Information - apologies!

[Pedro C. Marijuan]

Thanks, Ken. I think your previous message and this one are drawing sort 
of the border-lines of the discussion. Achieving a comprehensive view on 
the interrelationship between computation and information is an 
essential matter. In my opinion, and following the Vienna discussions, 
whenever life cycles are involved and meaningfully "touched", there is 
info; while the mere info circulation according to fixed rules and not 
impinging on any life-cycle relevant aspect, may be taken as 
computation. The distinction between both may help to consider more 
clearly the relationship between the four great domains of sceince: 
physical, biological, social, and Informational. If we adopt a 
pan-computationalist stance, the information turn of societies, of 
bioinformation, neuroinformation, etc. merely reduces to applying 
computer technologies. I think this would be a painful error, repeating 
the big mistake of 60s-70s, when people band-wagon to developed the 
sciences of the artificial and reduced the nascent info science to 
library science. People like Alex Pentland (his "social physics" 2014) 
are again taking the wrong way... Anyhow, it was nicer talking face to 
face as we did in the past conference!

best ---Pedro

 Ken Herold wrote:
> FIS:
>
> Sorry to have been too disruptive in my restarting discussion post--I 
> did not intend to substitute for the Information Science thread an 
> alternative way of philosophy or computing.  The references I listed 
> are indicative of some bad thinking as well as good ideas to reflect 
> upon.  Our focus is information and I would like to hear how you might 
> believe the formal relational scheme of Rosenbloom could be helpful?
>
> Ken
>
> -- 
> Ken Herold
> Director, Library Information Systems
> Hamilton College
> 198 College Hill Road
> Clinton, NY 13323
> 315-859-4487
> kherold at hamilton.edu <mailto:kherold at hamilton.edu>


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