<div dir="ltr">Cari colleghi,<div>distinguere, separare o, peggio, contrapporre è pericoloso e contrasta con l'armonia meravigliosa che governa ll mondo. A PRESCINDERE CHE SI CREDA O MENO in una in una Intelligenza trascendente la natura umana (io, ad esempio, credo in Dio che non finisce mai di stupirci e sorprenderci). In questo contesto epistemologico ed ermeneutico il computo o calcolo non è altro che una singolare caso o categoria di informazione. Naturalmente, questo è quel che penso io e rassegno al Vostro giudizio.</div><div>Un abbraccio per Tutti, nella convinzione che nessuno possegga una verità assoluta, eterna e immutabile.</div><div>Francesco Rizzo.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-06-12 23:18 GMT+02:00 Krassimir Markov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markov@foibg.com" target="_blank">markov@foibg.com</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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<div><font size="4">Dear John and Stan,</font></div>
<div><font size="4">Your both hierarchies are good only if you believe in
God.</font></div>
<div><font size="4">But this is believe, not science.</font></div>
<div><font size="4">Sorry, nothing personal!</font></div>
<div><font size="4">Friendly regards</font></div>
<div><font size="4">Krassimir</font></div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="Collierj@ukzn.ac.za" href="mailto:Collierj@ukzn.ac.za" target="_blank">John Collier</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 12, 2015 5:02 PM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="ssalthe@binghamton.edu" href="mailto:ssalthe@binghamton.edu" target="_blank">Stanley N Salthe</a> ; <a title="fis@listas.unizar.es" href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank">fis</a> </div><div><div class="h5">
<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Fis] Philosophy, Computing, and Information -
apologies!</div></div></div></div></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE:11pt;FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri","sans-serif";COLOR:#1f497d">Not
quite the same hierarchy, but similar:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE:11pt;FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri","sans-serif";COLOR:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><img src="cid:900A8E6EF0834B28996C2A2D0DA8B5BE@VaioMarkov" width="477" height="461"><span style="FONT-SIZE:11pt;FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri","sans-serif";COLOR:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE:11pt;FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri","sans-serif";COLOR:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE:11pt;FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri","sans-serif";COLOR:#1f497d">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE:11pt;FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri","sans-serif";COLOR:#1f497d">Chemical
information is negentropic, and hierarchical in most physiological
systems.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE:11pt;FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri","sans-serif";COLOR:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE:11pt;FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri","sans-serif";COLOR:#1f497d">John<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE:11pt;FONT-FAMILY:"Calibri","sans-serif";COLOR:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE:10pt;FONT-FAMILY:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Fis
[mailto:<a href="mailto:fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank">fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Stanley N
Salthe<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, June 12, 2015 3:40 PM<br><b>To:</b>
fis<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Fis] Philosophy, Computing, and Information -
apologies!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Pedro -- Your list:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE:9.5pt">physical, biological, social,
and Informational</span><u></u><u></u></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE:9.5pt">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:</span><u></u><u></u></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE:9.5pt">{informational
{physicochemical {biological {social}}}}</span><u></u><u></u></p></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-SIZE:9.5pt">STAN</span><u></u><u></u></p></div></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 5:34 AM, Pedro C. Marijuan <<a href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" target="_blank">pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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!<br><br>best
---Pedro<br><br>Ken Herold wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">FIS:<br><br>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?<br><br>Ken<br><br>-- <br>Ken Herold<br>Director, Library Information
Systems<br>Hamilton College<br>198 College Hill Road<br>Clinton, NY 13323<br><a href="tel:315-859-4487" target="_blank">315-859-4487</a><br><a href="mailto:kherold@hamilton.edu" target="_blank">kherold@hamilton.edu</a>
<mailto:<a href="mailto:kherold@hamilton.edu" target="_blank">kherold@hamilton.edu</a>><u></u><u></u></p>
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