<div dir="ltr">Dear Bob.<div>I agree 100%. We must classify information in abiotic and biotic, but, in my opinion, both are parts of "information".</div><div>Some scientists, including Tom Stonier, tried to define information considering the syntactic and semantic aspects of information.</div><div>Can we draw a parallel between these concepts?</div><div>Abiotic <--> syntactic <--> Shannon <--> machines</div><div>Biotic <--> semantic <--> human</div><div>Shall we abandon the insights from Shannon theory to construct a theory of information (unified and non reductionist)?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Attached a draw to illustrate the Von Newmann - Shannon talking :-)<br></div><div><br></div><div>Um abraço</div><div><br></div><div>Moisés</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-03-26 11:30 GMT-03:00 Bob Logan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:logan@physics.utoronto.ca" target="_blank">logan@physics.utoronto.ca</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hello Krassimir - I agree with the sentiments you expressed - they seem to parallel my thoughts.<div><br></div><div>I am often puzzled by the use of the term ‘information’ in the way it is often used by physicists re the info of material objects . The way the term information is used in physics such as Wheelers its from bits does not conform to my understanding of information as a noun describing the process of informing. How can abiotic matter be informed as it cannot make any choices and hence cannot be informed. Living organisms make choices and use information to make those choices for all living creatures from bacteria to humans including physicists :-). The only information involved in the uses by physicists describing our universe of the word information is that associated with physicists becoming informed of what is happening in the universe they observe. I am happy that they want to discuss this info but I believe there is a need to distinguish between info (biotic) and info (abiotic) as used in physics. The use of a single word information for both categories is confusing, at least it is for me. This ambiguity reminds me of Shannon's use of the term entropy to define his notion of information having taken the advice of Von Neumann. <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">A story is told that Shannon did not know what to call his measure and von Neumann advised him to call it entropy because nobody knows what it means and that it would therefore give Shannon an advantage in any debate (Campbell, Jeremy 1982, p. 32 </span> <i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language, and Life. </span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">New York: Simon and Schuster.</span> <span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman'">). </span> Shannon defined information in such a way that he admitted was not necessarily about meaning. Information without meaning has no meaning for me. Kind regards to all - Bob Logan</div><div><br><div>
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<br><div><div>On Mar 26, 2017, at 5:39 AM, Krassimir Markov <<a href="mailto:markov@foibg.com" target="_blank">markov@foibg.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_-7889428926929991516Apple-interchange-newline"><div>
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<div><font size="4">Dear <font>Brian, </font>Arturo, Karl, Alex,
Lars-Goran, Gyuri, and FIS colleagues,</font></div>
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<div><font size="4">Thank you for your remarks!</font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">What is important is that every theory has its
own understanding of the concepts it uses.</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">For “foreigners”, theirs meaning may be strange
or unknown.</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">Some times, concepts of one theory contradict to
corresponded concepts from other theory.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">For years, I have met many different definitions
of concept “information” and many more kinds of its use.</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">From materialistic up to weird point of
view...</font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">To clear my own understanding, I shall give you a
simple example:</font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">CAN THE CAN DRINK BEER ?</font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">CAN THE CAN EXCHANGE BEER WITH THE GLASS
?</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri"></font> </div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">The can is used by humans for some goals, for
instance to store some beer for a given period.</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">But the can itself “could not understand” its own
functions and what the can can do with beer it contains.</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">All its functionality is a human’s
consciousness model.</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">Can cannot exchange beer with the
glass if there are no human activity or activity of additional devices invented
by humans to support this.</font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">Further:</font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">CAN THE ARTIFICIAL LEG WALK ?</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">You know the answer ... Human with an artificial
leg can walk ...</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">All functionality of artificial
leg is a result from human’s consciousness modeling and
invention.</font> </div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">In addition:</font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">IS THE “PHYSICAL INFORMATION” INFORMATION
?</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">If it is, the first question is how to measure
the quantity and quality of such “information” and who can do this?
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<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">I prefer the answer “NO” – “physical information”
is a concept which means something else but not “information” as it is in my
understanding.</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">From my point of view, “physical information” is
a kind of reflection (see “Theory of reflections” of T.Pavlov). </font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">Every reflection may be assumed as information
iff (if and only if) there exist a subjective information expectation to be
resolved by given reflection.</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">For physical information this low is not
satisfied. Because of this, I prefer to call this phenomenon simply “a
reflection”. </font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">And so on ...</font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Calibri"><font><font>Finally:</font></font></font></div>
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<div><font size="4" face="Calibri"><font><font>Human been invented too much kinds of <span lang="en" id="m_-7889428926929991516result_box" class="m_-7889428926929991516short_text"><span>prostheses including ones for our
intellectual functionalities, i.e. many different kinds of electronic devices
which, in particular, can generate some electrical<font>,</font> light, etc. impulses, which we assume as
“information”; usually <font>a
</font></span></span></font></font><font><font><span lang="en" class="m_-7889428926929991516short_text"><span>combination of
impulses we assume as s structure to be recognized by us as “information”.
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<div><font size="4" face="Calibri"><font><font><span lang="en" class="m_-7889428926929991516short_text"><span></span></span></font></font></font> </div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri"><font><font><span lang="en" class="m_-7889428926929991516short_text"><span>A special kind
of <span lang="en" id="m_-7889428926929991516result_box" class="m_-7889428926929991516short_text"><span>prostheses are
<font face="Calibri"><font><font><span lang="en" class="m_-7889428926929991516short_text"><span>Robots. They
have</span></span></font></font></font> some autonomous functionalities but are
still very far from living consciousness. The level of complexity of robot’s
consciousness is far of human’s one. Someone may say that robots understand and
exchange “information”, but still they only react on incoming signals following
the instructions given by humans. Theirs functioning is similar to human ones
but only similar. They may recognize some structures of signals and exchange
such ones with other robots or living creatures. Maybe someone wants to call
this “information exchange”, but, after Shannon, I call this “sending and/or
receiving signals”. And automatic reaction to signals.
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<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">One may say, the Robot (Computer) memory
contains information but really it</font> <font size="4" face="Calibri">does
not contain anything – it has its own structure which can be changed temporally
of permanently by external electrical impulses.</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">Is the human memory the same – a structure which
can be changed temporally of permanently by external or internal signals? I
think – yes, It is!</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">What is the difference? Why we may say that the
living creatures process information but not living couldn’t? </font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">The answer is: because the living creatures may
create and resolve the “information expectation” with very high level of
complexity. </font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">Maybe in the future robots will can do it
...</font></div>
<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">Such robot I call “INFOS”. It will be artificial
living creature. Possibly with some biological elements.
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<div><font size="4" face="Calibri">It will be very interesting and amazing to see
how the can can drink beer :-) And very dangerous – where the beer will be kept
if the can can drink it?</font></div>
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<div><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#f5f5f5" size="4" face="Calibri">I hope, now it
is clear why I assert that (now!) non-living objects COULD NOT “exchange
information”.</font></div>
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<div><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#f5f5f5" size="4" face="Calibri">Friendly
regards</font></div>
<div><font style="BACKGROUND-COLOR:#f5f5f5" size="4" face="Calibri">Krassimir</font></div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="karl.javorszky@gmail.com" href="mailto:karl.javorszky@gmail.com" target="_blank">Karl Javorszky</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 24, 2017 8:24 PM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="alexhankey@gmail.com" href="mailto:alexhankey@gmail.com" target="_blank">Alex Hankey</a> </div>
<div><b>Cc:</b> <a title="markov@foibg.com" href="mailto:markov@foibg.com" target="_blank">Krassimir Markov</a> ; <a title="tozziarturo@libero.it" href="mailto:tozziarturo@libero.it" target="_blank">Arturo Tozzi</a>
; <a title="fis@listas.unizar.es" href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank">FIS
Webinar</a> </div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Fis] non-living objects COULD NOT “exchange
information”</div></div></div>
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<div>1) Let me second to the point Alex raises:<br></div>machines, computers, do
exchange information. It would be against cultural conventions to say that the
notification that the refrigerator sends to your phone's app "to-do-list" of the
content "milk only 0.5 liter available" is not an information.<br><br></div>The
signals my car's pressure sensor sends to my dashboard, saying "tire pressure
front right wheel is critically low" is a clear case of information, whether I
read it or not.<br><br></div>2) Let me add to the point Alex states, namely that
the "form of information that I presented to FiS a year ago offers the only
scientifically based,mathematical physics form of 'information' that I have
personally seen in the scientific literature", (Alex, will you please restate in
the present context, for the present discussion, your formulation) the
following:<br><br></div>I have given in my work "Natural orders - de ordinibus
naturalibus" (ISBN <span class="m_-7889428926929991516gmail-st">9783990571378</span>) the following
definition of the term "information":<br><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt;FONT-FAMILY:"liberation serif",serif">8.3.3.3
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</span><span style="BACKGROUND:yellow">Information is a description of what is
not the case</span>. [Let <i>x = a</i></span><i><span style="FONT-SIZE:8pt;FONT-FAMILY:"liberation serif",serif">k</span></i><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt;FONT-FAMILY:"liberation serif",serif">. This is a
statement, no information contained. Let <i>x = a</i></span><i><span style="FONT-SIZE:8pt;FONT-FAMILY:"liberation serif",serif">k</span></i><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt;FONT-FAMILY:"liberation serif",serif"><span> </span>and
<i>k </i></span><i><span lang="FR-CA" style="FONT-SIZE:12pt;FONT-FAMILY:symbol"><span><symbol for
is_included_in></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt;FONT-FAMILY:"liberation serif",serif">
{1,2,...,k,...,n}</span></i><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt;FONT-FAMILY:"liberation serif",serif">. This statement
contains the information <i>k </i></span><i><span lang="FR-CA" style="FONT-SIZE:12pt;FONT-FAMILY:symbol"><span><symbol for
is_not_included_in></span></span></i><i><span lang="FR-CA" style="FONT-SIZE:12pt;FONT-FAMILY:symbol"><span></span></span><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt;FONT-FAMILY:"liberation serif",serif">{1,2,...,k-<wbr>1,k+1,...,n}</span></i><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt;FONT-FAMILY:"liberation serif",serif">.]<br></span></div><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt;FONT-FAMILY:"liberation serif",serif">(Sorry for the
included & not-included symbols not making it thru the simplified text
editor in use here.)<br><br></span></div><span style="FONT-SIZE:12pt;FONT-FAMILY:"liberation serif",serif">Karl<br><br></span></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2017-03-24 18:51 GMT+01:00 Alex Hankey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alexhankey@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexhankey@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">BUT, in common parlance, computers and mobile phones 'exchange
information' (in the abstract, digital sense) all the time. Including this
email.
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<div>If you wish to cleanly restrict yourself to semantic content, the the
form of information that I presented to FiS a year ago offers the only
scientifically based,mathematical physics form of 'information' that I have
personally seen in the scientific literature. </div>
<div> </div>
<div>Best wishes, </div>
<div> </div>
<div>Alex Hankey </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 24 March 2017 at 15:25, Krassimir Markov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:markov@foibg.com" target="_blank">markov@foibg.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div><font size="4">Dear Arturo and FIS Colleagues,</font></div>
<div><font size="4">Let me remember that:</font></div>
<div><font size="4">The basic misunderstanding that non-living objects could
“exchange information” leads to many principal theoretical as well as
psychological faults. </font></div>
<div><font size="4">For instance, photon could exchange only energy and/or
reflections !</font></div>
<div><font size="4"><em>Sorry for this n-th my remark ... </em></font></div>
<div><font size="4">Friendly greetings</font></div>
<div><font size="4">Krassimir</font></div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="tozziarturo@libero.it" href="mailto:tozziarturo@libero.it" target="_blank">tozziarturo@libero.it</a>
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<div><b>Sent:</b> Friday, March 24, 2017 4:52 PM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="fis@listas.unizar.es" href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank">fis@listas.unizar.es</a>
</div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> [Fis] I: Re: Is information truly
important?</div></div></div>
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<div>Dear <span>Lars-Göran, </span></div>
<div><font>I prefer to use asap my second FIS bullet,
therefore it will be my last FIS mail for the next days. </font></div>
<div><font><br></font></div>
<div><font>First of all, in special relativity, a</font>n
observer is NOT by definition a material object that can receive and store
incoming energy from other objects. <font><br></font>
<div>In special relativity, an observer is a frame of reference from which
a set of objects or events are being measured. Speaking of an
observer is not specifically hypothesizing an individual person who is
experiencing events, but rather it is a particular mathematical context
which objects and events are to be evaluated from. The effects of special
relativity occur whether or not there is a "material object that can
recieve and store incoming energy from other objects" within the inertial
reference frame to witness them.</div>
<div> </div>Furthermore, take a photon (traveling at speed light)
that crosses a cosmic zone close to the sun. The photon "detects"
(and therefore can interact with) a huge sun surface (because of its high
speed), while we humans on the Earth "detect" (and can interact with) a
much smaller sun surface. </div>
<div>Therefore, the photon may exchange more information with the sun than
the humans on the Earth: both the photon and the humans interact with the
same sun, but they "detect" different surfaces, and therefore they may
exchange with the sun a different information content. </div>
<div>If we also take into account that the photon detects an almost
infinite, fixed time, this means once again that it can exchange much more
information with the sun than we humans can.</div>
<div></div>
<div> </div>
<div>In sum, once again, information does not seem to be a physical
quantity, rather just a very subjective measure, depending on the speed
and of the time of the "observer". </div>
<div> </div>
<div> <br><div class="m_-7889428926929991516m_6572504432977552712m_8936583650354385092MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><span style="FONT-SIZE:14px;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><font face="courier new, monospace"><b>Arturo Tozzi</b></font></span></div><div class="m_-7889428926929991516m_6572504432977552712m_8936583650354385092MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT:115%"><font face="courier new, monospace">AA Professor
Physics, University North Texas</font></span></div><div class="m_-7889428926929991516m_6572504432977552712m_8936583650354385092MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><span style="FONT-SIZE:14px;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><font face="courier new, monospace">Pediatrician ASL Na2Nord,
Italy</font></span></div><div class="m_-7889428926929991516m_6572504432977552712m_8936583650354385092MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><span style="FONT-SIZE:14px;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><font face="courier new, monospace">Comput Intell Lab, University
Manitoba</font></span></div><div class="m_-7889428926929991516m_6572504432977552712m_8936583650354385092MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><font face="courier new, monospace"><a style="FONT-SIZE:14px;COLOR:rgb(5,68,126);LINE-HEIGHT:normal" href="http://arturotozzi.webnode.it/" target="_blank">http://arturotozzi.webnode.it/</a><span style="FONT-SIZE:14px;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><wbr> </span></font><br></div></div><br><br>
<blockquote type="cite">----Messaggio originale----<br>Da: "Lars-Göran Johansson"
<<a href="mailto:Lars-Goran.Johansson@filosofi.uu.se" target="_blank">Lars-Goran.Johansson@filosofi<wbr>.uu.se</a>><br>Data:
24/03/2017 14.50<br>A: "<a href="mailto:tozziarturo@libero.it" target="_blank">tozziarturo@libero.it</a>"<<a href="mailto:tozziarturo@libero.it" target="_blank">tozzia<wbr>rturo@libero.it</a>><br>Ogg: Re: [Fis] Is
information truly important?<br><br><br>
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<div>24 mars 2017 kl. 13:15 skrev <a href="mailto:tozziarturo@libero.it" target="_blank">tozziarturo@libero.it</a>:</div>
<div> </div>
<div>
<div>Dear Fisers, </div>
<div>a big doubt...</div>
<div> </div>
<div>We know that the information of a 3D black hole is proportional
to its 2D horizon, according to the Bekenstein-Hawking
equations.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>However, an hypotetical observer traveling at light speed (who
watches a black hole at rest) detects a very large black hole horizon,
due to Einstein's equations.</div>
<div>Therefore, he detects more information from the black hole than
an observer at rest, who sees a smaller
horizon…</div></div></blockquote>An observer is by definition a material
object that can recieve and store incoming energy from other objects.
Since it requires infinite energy to accelerate even a slighest
object to the velocity of light, no observer can travel at the speed of
light. That means that your thought experiment is based in inconsistent
assumptions and no vaild conclusions from them can be drawn. </div>
<div>Lars-Göran Johansson</div>
<div><br>
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<div>
<div> </div>
<div>In sum, information does not seem to be a physical quantity,
rather just a very subjective measure...<br><br><div class="m_-7889428926929991516m_6572504432977552712m_8936583650354385092MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><span style="FONT-SIZE:14px;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><font face="courier new, monospace"><b>Arturo Tozzi</b></font></span></div><div class="m_-7889428926929991516m_6572504432977552712m_8936583650354385092MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><span style="LINE-HEIGHT:115%"><font face="courier new, monospace">AA
Professor Physics, University North Texas</font></span></div><div class="m_-7889428926929991516m_6572504432977552712m_8936583650354385092MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><span style="FONT-SIZE:14px;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><font face="courier new, monospace">Pediatrician ASL Na2Nord,
Italy</font></span></div><div class="m_-7889428926929991516m_6572504432977552712m_8936583650354385092MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><span style="FONT-SIZE:14px;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><font face="courier new, monospace">Comput Intell Lab, University
Manitoba</font></span></div><div class="m_-7889428926929991516m_6572504432977552712m_8936583650354385092MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><font face="courier new, monospace"><a style="FONT-SIZE:14px;COLOR:rgb(5,68,126);LINE-HEIGHT:normal" href="http://arturotozzi.webnode.it/" target="_blank">http://arturotozzi.webnode.it/</a><span style="FONT-SIZE:14px;LINE-HEIGHT:normal"><wbr> </span></font><br></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>Fis
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