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<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.35cm" lang="de-DE">Dear
Colleagues,</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.35cm" lang="de-DE"><br><br>
</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.35cm" lang="en-US">good
that FIS is up again after this computer glitch.
</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.35cm" lang="en-US">It is
encouraging, that since the resurrection the focus of FIS appears to
be sharpened. Let me quote Pridi: “… brainstorming session that
would include pure researchers and application oriented guys … …
business people may find it more than worthwhile to attend such
meetings! …”</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.35cm" lang="en-US"><br><br>
</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.35cm" lang="en-US">FIS
does have a solid background in mathematics and formal logic. In
1995, that is 19 years ago!, Pedro encouraged me to summarise my
research in sequences and contemporary assemblies into a book:
“Zaragoza Lectures on Granularity Algebra”. Since then, there was
hardly one year that I have not contributed to FIS and its friendly
organisations an input relating to the formal logic underlying
Nature’s machinations, with specific regard to genetics, the
archetype of interactions between a sequence and a non-sequenced
entity.</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.35cm" lang="en-US"><br><br>
</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.35cm" lang="en-US">During
the years, what was at first cumbersome and complicated to understand
and to explain, has morphed into something that is easy to explain
but requires flexibility to understand. The explanation, how the
interaction between the DNA and the cell works – as an information
deciphering exercise – is of course of the “no-na” category, as
Nature cannot and will not use illogical or questionable methods. It
is us who have built the fundaments of our thinking in such a fashion
that our perception and cognition filter out the relevant details.
One has to go down to pre-school, or kindergarten level to point out
what is to be looked at so that this detail can then be used like any
other tool of arithmetic.
</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.35cm" lang="en-US"><br><br>
</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.35cm" lang="en-US">Presently,
I work on a pre-school level teaching material that should help
soften the ingrained inhibitions of perception. There appear to be
extreme difficulties among well-educated people to believe it
possible that it is useful to re-learn what we have learnt at
elementary school about arithmetic. The dès-illusionnement appears
to be comparable to that experienced by our forefathers learning that
the Earth is round or that evolution means that we are sharing
genetics with apes. The paradigm changes come after circumstances
have changed, and in this case, they have: computers allow us to look
at numbers in bulk, until we find patterns. This method was not
accessible to researchers of previous generations.</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.35cm" lang="en-US"><br><br>
</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.35cm" lang="en-US">Be as
it may, the fact is, that to understand a process, we need to be able
to model it by using numbers. This is where scientific, serious,
industrial accounting comes into play. This discipline has to agree
both to the laws of logic and arithmetic, and also be useful and
focusable on specific tasks. There is no nonsense in accounting: if
the sequence is a different one, there has to be an identifiable
conglomerate of non-linear consequences that are re-traceable to the
change in the sequence. This task has now been solved, in such a
fashion that the results and the mechanism is communicable and
understandable. One wonders about Mendel, whose rules of genetics he
himself knew and understood way before his death, which preceded by
17 years the general acknowledgement that he indeed has had outlined
and explained Mendel’s laws.
</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.35cm" lang="en-US"><br><br>
</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.35cm" lang="en-US">There
will be a FIS symposium in Vienna, the city I live in, next year.
Please let me organize a sub-workshop on Modeling Genetic Information
Transfer By Using Extensions To Arithmetic. Maybe, no one will turn
up, but then not much is lost.
</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.35cm" lang="en-US"><br><br>
</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.35cm" lang="de-DE"><span lang="en-US">In
<a href="http://www.oeis.org">www.oeis.org</a> there are two sequences registered that define the
central concepts quite well (A235647, A242615). There is an article
in ITHEA </span><font color="#0000ff"><u><a href="http://www.foibg.com/ijita/vol21/ijita-fv21.htm"><span lang="en-US">http://www.foibg.com/ijita/vol21/ijita-fv21.htm</span></a></u></font><span lang="en-US">
called Essay on Order. The accounting mechanism is outlined in
</span><font color="#0000ff"><u><a href="http://www.tautomat.com/"><span lang="en-US">www.tautomat.com</span></a></u></font><span lang="en-US">.
There, one will also find the contributions to FIS of last year,
called Learn to Count in Twelve Easy Steps.</span></p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.35cm" lang="en-US"><br><br>
</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.35cm" lang="en-US">Showing
the nuts and bolts of how the translation linear-spatial-linear
actually works is not a sexy subject. Accountants, watch-makers,
hair-splitters and sudoku-lovers may find it hilarious, albeit maybe
a bit risqué. There are some unusual approaches to additions
presented there, many taboos are broken, and many hearts will be
broken, but absolutely no laws of logic or data processing.</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.35cm" lang="en-US"><br><br>
</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.35cm" lang="en-US">But
then, again, this is what pure research does for a living. If number
theorists could not deliver a good punch every once a while, the
profession would have died out. Let me hope that the commercial and
application guys are willing to shop. There is, indeed, something on
offer coming from pure science, from basic research into the formal
properties of logical sentences. The invention is extremely
practical, and – once one has familiarized the usage of the
amount-place accounting assignment mechanism – not more complicated
than trigonometry, e.g. Its usage includes information packaging and
decompressing, as many ways of en- and decryption as there can exist
natural languages, and lots of exact definitions for concepts that we
derive from observing Nature, without as yet knowing how to define
them, e.g. gravitation, magnetism, chemical bondages, etc.</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.35cm" lang="en-US"><br><br>
</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.35cm" lang="en-US">The
numeric model is well suited to serve as a construction to agree or
disagree on the meaning of the term “information”, as there is an
interplay between order, amount, place, time: the individual strands
of the web constituting the interplay may or may not be the case, and
therein lies information. Which manifestation(s) of “is the case”
is connected to which symbol(s) appears to be the essence of
information, so there is ample room to forge agreements on what we,
precisely, understand under the term.</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.35cm" lang="en-US"><br><br>
</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.35cm" lang="en-US">Thanks
again for the resurrection and may FIS become stronger and healthier
after the crisis.
</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.35cm" lang="en-US"><br><br>
</p>
<p class="" style="margin-bottom:0.35cm" lang="en-US">Karl</p>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-07-15 18:25 GMT+02:00 John Collier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:collierj@ukzn.ac.za" target="_blank">collierj@ukzn.ac.za</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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At 03:14 PM 2014-07-15, you wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Dear John,<br><br>
Thank you for this interesting perspective. Regarding the origin of
the<br>
"limited band width" of physical processes, could this have its
origin in<br>
some regularity other than circularity? For example, the "continuous
going<br>
back and forth" (the phrase is Botero's) between opposing attitudes
or<br>
states, alternately predominantly actual and potential?</blockquote><br>
My understanding of waves is that is how they work, also similar
phenomena like pendula and oscillating springs, not to mention
orbits.<br><br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">All natural processes, then,
have a capacity for continuous information<br>
bearing. The problem is then the origin of /discreteness/, not only in
your<br>
countercase, which involves quantum particles, but at higher levels
of<br>
interactions between complex entities! For me, the only solution is
that<br>
continuity and discontinuity are properties of information which are<br>
not totally separate from one another.</blockquote><br>
I was thinking more of billiard ball collisions, not ones that depend on
quantum states. In my article, "Causation is the transfer of
information" (available on my web site) and expanded in
<ul>
<li>
<a href="http://web.ncf.ca/collier/papers/CollierJohn%20formatted.pdf" target="_blank">
Information, causation and computation</a> (2012.
<a href="http://astore.amazon.co.uk/books-books-21/detail/9814295477" target="_blank"><i>
Information and Computation:</i></a> Essays on Scientific and Philosophical
Understanding of Foundations of Information and Computation, Ed by
Gordana Dodig Crnkovic and Mark Burgin, World Scientific)
</li></ul>I use a formal notion of an information channel to deal with
information transmission in classical systems. There are special problems
when the dynamics are not computable, but I explain how the idea can work
there as well. I do, however, need more formal proofs of sufficiency at
this time, though. Fortunately, my approach does not require computation
of the amount of information transferred, so I suppose it could be
infinite and still work, but I doubt it is infinite in real processes. I
suppose I will have to work that out at some point, one way or the
other.<br><br>
John</div>
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Professor John
Collier
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