[Fis] [External Email] Re: defining information.Joseph comment on Loet

[Joseph Brenner]

The alternative is to give up looking for a unifying definition of
information qua static content and look for, instead of a mathematical
theory, a concept of information as a common dynamic process, by definition
multi-dimensional.



Best,

 

Joseph  

 

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Sent: vendredi, 6 mars 2020 07:48
To: João Alvaro Carvalho; fis
Subject: Re: [Fis] [External Email] Re: defining information

 

I gave up looking for an unifying definition of information.

As soon I switch to another context (for example, moving from the context of
organisational work to  the human mind or to the cell) the key features are
different.

 

This problem is precisely a reason to stick to a content-free, i.e.,
mathematical definition of information.  Information can then further be
made relevant in any special theory. The application is not dimension-free. 

 

Best,

Loet

 



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