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

Sat Jun 13 21:49:34 CEST 2015

Dear John and Stan,
What is cause, and what is result? This is the question.
If we not assume information and informational processes as secondary effect from activity of living mater,  it is not possible to proof anything and we have to believe that proposed models maybe are truth. We have to trust to Author but not to experiments. 
Information has to be included not in the beginning of the hierarchy – at least in the middle where living mater appear.
Sorry that my post was apprehended as careless!
Friendly regards
Krassimir

From: Stanley N Salthe 
Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2015 3:30 PM
To: Krassimir Markov 
Subject: Re: [Fis] Philosophy, Computing, and Information - apologies!

Krassimir -- ???  I fail to understand your assertion.  This (and any hierarchy) is a logical formulation, allowing us to allocate influences from various aspects of nature in an orderly manner. 

So, please explain further your careless assertion!

STAN 

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Krassimir Markov <markov at foibg.com> wrote:

  Dear John and Stan,
  Your both hierarchies are good only if you believe in God.
  But this is believe, not science.
  Sorry, nothing personal!
  Friendly regards
  Krassimir

  From: John Collier 
  Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 5:02 PM
  To: Stanley N Salthe ; fis 
  Subject: Re: [Fis] Philosophy, Computing, and Information - apologies!

  Not quite the same hierarchy, but similar:

  It from bit is just information, which is fundamental, on Seth Lloyd’s computational view of nature. Paul Davies and some other physicists agree with this.

  Chemical information is negentropic, and hierarchical in most physiological systems.

  John

  From: Fis [mailto:fis-bounces at listas.unizar.es] On Behalf Of Stanley N Salthe
  Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 3:40 PM
  To: fis
  Subject: Re: [Fis] Philosophy, Computing, and Information - apologies!

  Pedro -- Your list:

  physical, biological, social, and Informational

  is implicitly a hierarchy -- in fact, a subsumptive hierarchy, with the physical subsuming the biological and the biological subsuming the social.  But where should information appear?  Following Wheeler, we should have:

  {informational {physicochemical {biological {social}}}}

  STAN

  On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 5:34 AM, Pedro C. Marijuan <pcmarijuan.iacs at aragon.es> wrote:

  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

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