<div dir="ltr">Cari Tutti,<div>per com-prendere l'esistenza e la conoscenza esiste un'unica legge: quella dell'informazione. Materia, energia, spazio, tempo, etc., non sono altro che informazione materiale, informazione energetica, informazione spaziale, informazione temporale, etc. Sono pervenuto anch'io (ma non siamo in molti) a questa non definitiva o non immutabile conclusione attraverso l'elaborazione della NUOVA ECONOMIA della conoscenza o la conoscenza della NUOVA ECONOMIA contenuta in tanti miei libri e ultimamente in:</div><div>"Una nuova avventura tra l'idolatria del denaro e lo spirito dell'amore con com-passione o viscerale emo-ra-zionalità", Aracne editrice, Roma, 2017.</div><div>Sono stato sempre consapevole di essere un "poverino esponenziale", ma con la mia tenace volontà e non smettendo mai la mia attività di ricerca e di studio ho com-preso ciò che sembra(va) in-com-prensibile, ma niente è incomprensibile a questo mondo basta avere un'immaginazione creativa e non poca umiltà.</div><div>Un abbraccio.</div><div>Francesco Rizzo</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-09-16 13:50 GMT+02:00 Mark Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnsonmwj1@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnsonmwj1@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear Arturo, all,<br>
<br>
First of all, thank you to Pedro for exciting the list again - I was missing it!<br>
<br>
I have sympathy with Arturo's position, not because I am a<br>
mathematician (I'm not), but because I get tired of the "posturing"<br>
that qualitative positions produce among academics. I work in<br>
education, and education theory is full of this. Chomsky had a go at<br>
Zizek and much postmodern social theory for this very reason:<br>
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVBOtxCfan0" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?<wbr>v=AVBOtxCfan0</a>. He's got a point hasn't<br>
he?<br>
<br>
One of the exciting aspects of quantum mechanics is that some of what<br>
we intuitively know about social life seems to be mirrored in the<br>
quantum world and is expressible in mathematics. That this has some<br>
empirical foundation upon which scientists can agree presents the<br>
prospect of a deeper rethinking of a logic which might encompass a<br>
broader spectrum of life and lived experience. This is not a new<br>
dream: it is very similar to aims of the early cyberneticians who met<br>
in the Macy hotel in the late 1940s.<br>
<br>
However, progress towards this is hampered by a number of things.<br>
1. The splits between classical mechanics and quantum mechanics, and<br>
between quantum mechanics and relativity seem to arise from<br>
irreconcilable originating perspectives. A colleague of mine at<br>
Liverpool, Peter Rowlands has been hammering away at this for over 30<br>
years (see <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Foundations-Physical-Law-Peter-Rowlands/dp/9814618373/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1505562032&sr=1-1&keywords=peter+rowlands+physical+law" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.co.uk/<wbr>Foundations-Physical-Law-<wbr>Peter-Rowlands/dp/9814618373/<wbr>ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&<wbr>qid=1505562032&sr=1-1&<wbr>keywords=peter+rowlands+<wbr>physical+law</a>),<br>
establishing a coherent mathematical description which unites<br>
classical and quantum mechanics - but of course, such attempts often<br>
meet with incomprehension by the physics community who have<br>
established careers on the back of existing paradigms. There is a<br>
human problem in addressing the physics problem!<br>
<br>
2. The nature of mathematics and number itself is a question. It's a<br>
very ancient question - I was delighted and surprised to learn that<br>
John Duns Scotus worked out a logic of "superposition" in the 13th<br>
century (he called it "synchronic contingency") see<br>
<a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Philosophy-John-Duns-Scotus/dp/0748624627" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.co.uk/<wbr>Philosophy-John-Duns-Scotus/<wbr>dp/0748624627</a>.<br>
Maths is a discourse, like physics and sociology. If there wasn't<br>
coordination between mathematicians about the symbols they use and<br>
their meaning, there would be no maths. Curiously, neither would there<br>
be maths if all the mathematicians in world perfectly agree on all<br>
symbols and meaning! (there'd be nothing to talk about).<br>
<br>
3. given point 2, to put maths before information is to invite the<br>
challenge that maths is information (as discourse), and without<br>
information there is no maths!<br>
<br>
However, can we do better than "posturing". Yes, I think we can, and<br>
this may well involve new empirical practices, but this requires a new<br>
shared perspective. Maybe our approaching quantum computers will give<br>
us this by making the weirdness of superposition, entanglements and<br>
the inherent dynamic symmetry of the quantum world part of everyday<br>
life...<br>
<br>
Best wishes,<br>
<br>
Mark<br>
<br>
On 15 September 2017 at 14:16, <a href="mailto:tozziarturo@libero.it">tozziarturo@libero.it</a><br>
<div><div class="h5"><<a href="mailto:tozziarturo@libero.it">tozziarturo@libero.it</a>> wrote:<br>
> Dear FISers,<br>
> I'm sorry for bothering you,<br>
> but I start not to agree from the very first principles.<br>
><br>
> The only language able to describe and quantify scientific issues is<br>
> mathematics.<br>
> Without math, you do not have observables, and information is observable.<br>
> Therefore, information IS energy or matter, and can be examined through<br>
> entropies (such as., e.g., the Bekenstein-Hawking one).<br>
><br>
> And, please, colleagues, do not start to write that information is<br>
> subjective and it depends on the observer's mind. This issue has been<br>
> already tackled by the math of physics: science already predicts that<br>
> information can be "subjective", in the MATHEMATICAL frameworks of both<br>
> relativity and quantum dynamics' Copenhagen interpretation.<br>
> Therefore, the subjectivity of information is clearly framed in a TOTALLY<br>
> physical context of matter and energy.<br>
><br>
> Sorry for my polemic ideas, but, if you continue to define information on<br>
> the basis of qualitative (and not quantitative) science, information becomes<br>
> metaphysics, or sociology, or psychology (i.e., branches with doubtful<br>
> possibility of achieving knowledge, due to their current lack of math).<br>
><br>
><br>
> Arturo Tozzi<br>
><br>
> AA Professor Physics, University North Texas<br>
><br>
> Pediatrician ASL Na2Nord, Italy<br>
><br>
> Comput Intell Lab, University Manitoba<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://arturotozzi.webnode.it/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://arturotozzi.webnode.it/</a><br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> ----Messaggio originale----<br>
> Da: "Pedro C. Marijuan" <<a href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es">pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es</a>><br>
> Data: 15/09/2017 14.13<br>
> A: "fis"<<a href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es">fis@listas.unizar.es</a>><br>
> Ogg: [Fis] PRINCIPLES OF IS<br>
><br>
> Dear FIS Colleagues,<br>
><br>
> As promised herewith the "10 principles of information science". A couple of<br>
> previous comments may be in order.<br>
> First, what is in general the role of principles in science? I was motivated<br>
> by the unfinished work of philosopher Ortega y Gasset, "The idea of<br>
> principle in Leibniz and the evolution of deductive theory" (posthumously<br>
> published in 1958). Our tentative information science seems to be very<br>
> different from other sciences, rather multifarious in appearance and<br>
> concepts, and cavalierly moving from scale to scale. What could be the<br>
> specific role of principles herein? Rather than opening homogeneous realms<br>
> for conceptual development, these information principles would appear as a<br>
> sort of "portals" that connect with essential topics of other disciplines in<br>
> the different organization layers, but at the same time they should try to<br>
> be consistent with each other and provide a coherent vision of the<br>
> information world.<br>
> And second, about organizing the present discussion, I bet I was too<br>
> optimistic with the commentators scheme. In any case, for having a first<br>
> glance on the whole scheme, the opinions of philosophers would be very<br>
> interesting. In order to warm up the discussion, may I ask John Collier,<br>
> Joseph Brenner and Rafael Capurro to send some initial comments /<br>
> criticisms? Later on, if the commentators idea flies, Koichiro Matsuno and<br>
> Wolfgang Hofkirchner would be very valuable voices to put a perspectival end<br>
> to this info principles discussion (both attended the Madrid bygone FIS 1994<br>
> conference)...<br>
> But this is FIS list, unpredictable in between the frozen states and the<br>
> chaotic states! So, everybody is invited to get ahead at his own, with the<br>
> only customary limitation of two messages per week.<br>
><br>
> Best wishes, have a good weekend --Pedro<br>
><br>
> 10 PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION SCIENCE<br>
><br>
> 1. Information is information, neither matter nor energy.<br>
><br>
> 2. Information is comprehended into structures, patterns, messages, or<br>
> flows.<br>
><br>
> 3. Information can be recognized, can be measured, and can be processed<br>
> (either computationally or non-computationally).<br>
><br>
> 4. Information flows are essential organizers of life's self-production<br>
> processes--anticipating, shaping, and mixing up with the accompanying energy<br>
> flows.<br>
><br>
> 5. Communication/information exchanges among adaptive life-cycles underlie<br>
> the complexity of biological organizations at all scales.<br>
><br>
> 6. It is symbolic language what conveys the essential communication<br>
> exchanges of the human species--and constitutes the core of its "social<br>
> nature."<br>
><br>
> 7. Human information may be systematically converted into efficient<br>
> knowledge, by following the "knowledge instinct" and further up by applying<br>
> rigorous methodologies.<br>
><br>
> 8. Human cognitive limitations on knowledge accumulation are partially<br>
> overcome via the social organization of "knowledge ecologies."<br>
><br>
> 9. Knowledge circulates and recombines socially, in a continuous<br>
> actualization that involves "creative destruction" of fields and<br>
> disciplines: the intellectual Ars Magna.<br>
><br>
> 10. Information science proposes a new, radical vision on the information<br>
> and knowledge flows that support individual lives, with profound<br>
> consequences for scientific-philosophical practice and for social<br>
> governance.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> ------------------------------<wbr>-------------------<br>
> Pedro C. Marijuán<br>
> Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group<br>
> Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud<br>
> Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Aragón (CIBA)<br>
> Avda. San Juan Bosco, 13, planta 0<br>
> 50009 Zaragoza, Spain<br>
> Tfno. +34 976 71 3526 (& 6818)<br>
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