<div dir="ltr">Caro Gordana,<div>grazie per l'apprezzamento del mio messaggio. Messaggio che in sintesi significa questo: il pensiero esposto è quello di Hegel; la quantità qualitativa è fondamentale per la Nuova economia che ho elaborato; non considero la matematica una scienza quantitativa; ho discusso di queste cose con Enrico Bombieri, il più grande teorico dei numeri vivente; soprattutto abbiamo parlato della funzione d'onda di B. Riemann; il penultimo rigo è molto importante. Io non sono un matematico, ma assegno alla matematica una funzione importante e insostituibile. Nonostante la mia ignoranza di "poverino esponenziale", sono molto interessato al rapporto che passa tra i numeri primi, la funzione d'onda di Riemann, la meccanica quantistica e i numeri primi o complessi.</div><div>Un abbraccio affettuoso.</div><div>Francesco.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-11-19 9:00 GMT+01:00 Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gordana.dodig-crnkovic@mdh.se" target="_blank">gordana.dodig-crnkovic@mdh.se</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 style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="Avenir">Thank you so much for your enlightening post on logic that is rising the topic one level up.</font></div>
<div style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="Avenir">You refer to Hegel who recognised complementary relationship between quality, quantity and their synthesis – measure, which is very central for the current discussion.</font></div>
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<div style="font-size:14px"><font face="Avenir">However, in your mail, if I understand it correctly, and in the rest of the current discussion, it is
<font color="#0000ff">assumed that</font> <i><font color="#0000ff">mathematics is quantitative science</font>.</i></font></div>
<div><font face="Avenir">As we are in the beginning of the era of big data that makes people believe that “data speak for themselves” and that sciences just collect and summarise/</font><span style="font-family:Avenir">systematically </span><font face="Avenir">r<wbr>epresent
data, it is very important to point out that mathematics is much, much more than data and its processing. </font></div>
<div><font face="Avenir">It is qualitative science in the same sense that logic is. </font><span style="font-size:14px;font-family:Avenir">Algebra is not quantitative science. </span><font face="Avenir">Algebra is the study of mathematical symbols and the
rules for manipulating these symbols. </font><span style="font-family:Avenir;font-size:14px">Topology is not quantitative science.</span><span style="font-family:Avenir;font-size:14px"> Topology </span><font face="Avenir">is the study of qualitative
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on behalf of Francesco Rizzo <<a href="mailto:13francesco.rizzo@gmail.com" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">13francesco.rizzo@gmail.com</span></a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Sunday, 19 November 2017 at 07:56<br>
<b>To: </b>"<a href="mailto:yxs@pku.edu.cn" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">yxs@pku.edu.cn</span></a>" <<a href="mailto:yxs@pku.edu.cn" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">yxs@pku.edu.cn</span></a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>FIS Group <<a href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">fis@listas.unizar.es</span></a>><span class=""><br>
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existence implies articulate knowledge in the various sciences of nature, human and social. So the "Science of Logic", not the logic of science, by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1812-1816) applies to any kind of science. In fact, pure science of reason is
divided into three doctrines of:<br>
- <b>being</b> (quantity, quality and their unity - measure) <a href="https://www.marxistsfr.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/sl/slbeing.htm" target="_blank">https://www.marxistsfr.org/<wbr>reference/archive/hegel/works/<wbr>sl/slbeing.htm</a>;<br>
- <b>essence</b>, which studies thought in its reflection or mediation, that is, the concept as it is "per se" and thus appears;<br>
- <b>concept</b>, study of the concept "in itself and for itself".<br>
The first presentation of reality takes place in the immediate, intuitive forms of quality, quantity and measure, but one must grasp what is hidden origin in the reality of being: the essence that represents the "truth of being".<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10pt;font-family:'Avenir Book'">Hegel's reinterpretation provides ontological foundations to (the theory of) economic value conceived as a combination or energy / information relationship based on dialectical
quantity / quality and "qualitative quantity" or measure. <span style="color:blue">
Hegel does not contrast the quantity with quality, but tries to gain complementarity by deriving the first from the second.</span> Quantity is the denial of quality. Quantity and quality vary continuously, they are characterized by variability, but quantitative
variation is indifferent to the quality that does not change with the change in the quantitative dimension. If the quantity is a time of outwardness indifferent to the sphere of quality,
<font color="#0000ff">it justifies or explains Hegel's lack of consideration for purely quantitative considerations and therefore for those quantitative or hard mathematical sciences.</font> He believes that the propositions of geometry and arithmetic have
an exclusively analytical and therefore tautological nature, denying them all heuristic efficacy.<br>
This strong criticism of the rigor and scientific validity of mathematical models does not prevent him from carrying out an analysis that highlights the inadequacy of determinations,<br>
quantitative for the same mathematics, in which, according to this philosophical approach that strongly influences scientific epistemology, it raises qualitative criteria making it become "sweet." If maths are forced to incorporate qualitative or ordinal criteria,
they have to move to the sphere of measure or "qualitative quantity".<br>
Of course, the science of logic has served me to elaborate the New Economy (see in particular Rizzo F., "Science can not be human, civil, social, economics (c), enigmatic, noble, prophetic", Aracne , Rome, 2016, pp. 604-615; or Rizzo F., "The City of Man, Subordinated
to Faith", in Human Rights and the City Crisis by Corrado Beguinot et al., Giannini, Naples, 2012).<br>
So, to make it short, "qualitative quantity", "emo-rationality" and "meaning, information, communication" are fundamental to the whole of knowledge.<br>
I apologize for being overdue and thank you in advance for your critical attention.<br>
Francis.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:10pt;font-family:'Avenir Book'"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Fis <<a href="mailto:fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank">fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es</a>> on behalf of Francesco Rizzo <<a href="mailto:13francesco.rizzo@gmail.com" target="_blank">13francesco.rizzo@gmail.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Sunday, 19 November 2017 at 07:56<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:yxs@pku.edu.cn" target="_blank">yxs@pku.edu.cn</a>" <<a href="mailto:yxs@pku.edu.cn" target="_blank">yxs@pku.edu.cn</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>FIS Group <<a href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank">fis@listas.unizar.es</a>><div><div class="h5"><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [Fis] some notes<br>
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<div>l'esistenza implica la conoscenza articolata nelle diverse scienze della natura, umane e sociali. Quindi la "Science of Logic" , non la logica della scienza,</div>
<div>di Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1812-1816) vale per qualsiasi tipo di scienza. Difatti la scienza pura della ragione si divide in tre dottrine:</div>
<div>- dell'essere (quantità, qualità e misura);</div>
<div>- dell'essenza, che studia il pensiero nella sua riflessione o mediazione, cioè il concetto in quanto è "per sè" e dunque appare;</div>
<div>- del concetto, che studia il concetto "in sè e per sè".</div>
<div>Il primo presentarsi della realtà avviene nelle forme immediate, intuitive, della qualità, quantità e misura, ma bisogna cogliere ciò che è all'origine nascosto</div>
<div>nella realtà dell'essere: l'essenza che rappresenta la "verità dell'essere".</div>
<div>La rilettura di Hegel fornisce i fondamenti ontologici al(la teoria del) valore economica concepita come una combinazione o una relazione energia/informazione basata sulla</div>
<div>dialettica quantità/qualità e sulla "quantità qualitativa" o misura. Hegel non contrappone la quantità alla qualità, ma tenta di coglierne la complementarità facendo derivare la prima dalla seconda. La quantità è la negazione della qualità. Quantità e
qualità variano continuamente, sono caratterizzate dalla variabilità, ma la variazione quantitativa è indifferente nei confronti della qualità che non cambia al mutare della dimensione quantitativa. Se la quantità è un momento di esteriorità indifferente alla
sfera della qualità si giustifica o spiega la scarsa consi derazione di Hegel per le trattazioni puramente quantitative e dunque per quelle scienze matematiche quantitative o dure. Egli ritiene che le proposizioni della geometria e dell'aritmetica abbiano
una natura esclusivamente analitica e dunque tautologica, negando loro ogni efficacia euristica.</div>
<div>Questa forte critica al rigore e alla validità scientifica dei modelli matematici non gli impedisce di svolgere un'analisi che evidenzia l'insufficienza delle determinazioni,</div>
<div>quantitative per la stessa matematica nella quale, secondo questa impostazione filosofica che influenza fortemente l'epistemologia scientifica, irrompono criteri qualitativi facendola divenire "dolce". Se la matematica è costretta incorporare criteri
qualitativi o ordinali, deve far proprio il passaggio alla sfera della misura o "quantità qualitativa".</div>
<div>Beninteso, la scienza della logica mi è servita per elaborare la Nuova economia (Cfr. in particolare Rizzo F., "La scienza non può non essere umana, civile, sociale, economi(c)a, enigmatica, nobile, profetica", Aracne, Roma, 2016, pp. 604-615; oppure Rizzo
F., "La città dell'uomo. Sottesa dalla fede", in Human Rights and The City Crisis a cura di Corrado Beguinot ed altri, Giannini, Napoli, 2012).</div>
<div>Quindi, per farla breve, "quantità qualitativa", "emo-ra-zionalità" e "significazione, informazione, comunicazione" sono fondamentali per l'INTERA conoscenza.</div>
<div>Chiedo scusa per essermi dilungato e vi ringrazio anticipatamente per la vostra attenzione critica. </div>
<div>Francesco.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">2017-11-19 6:34 GMT+01:00 Xueshan Yan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yxs@pku.edu.cn" target="_blank">yxs@pku.edu.cn</a>></span>:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.65pt;text-indent:21.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I think both of your posts put forward a very important concept to information studies, i.e., HIERARCHY.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.65pt;text-indent:21.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Terry stated: "Communication needs to be more carefully distinguished from mere transfer of physical differences, …… Any transfer
of physical, physical differences in this respect can be utilized to communicate, and all communication requires this physical foundation."<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.65pt;text-indent:21.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I hope to raise a similar question: what is the mode of the existence of information? My answer is: No information can exist in
a bare way. That is to say, any existence of information is premised on the existence of substrate, and the substrate can be hierarchical. In the same way, no information can be communicated or processed in a bare way if and only if it has been embedded in
the substrate. In human information, substrate can be divided into sign, paper, etc., or other electronic devices. In genetic information, substrate can be divided into base, DNA or RNA, chromosome, cell, and organism. The study about the mode of existence
of information is an important aspect of ontological research of information science.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.65pt;text-indent:21.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In Terry’s statement: "Simply collapsing our concept (compression, collapse) of 'communication' to its physical substrate ……", or
in Loet’s words: "One should not confuse communication with the substance of communication." Again, this is a hierarchy problem. Because no information can be communicated in a bare way, so the communication of information is premised on the communication
of substrate, the same is true in the processing of information. Then, any communication of information is twofold: communication of information and communication of substrate. The study about the mode of communication and processing of information is the
important aspect of dynamical research of information science.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:4.65pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Best wishes,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Saturday, November 18, 2017 4:19 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Terrence W. DEACON <<a href="mailto:deacon@berkeley.edu" target="_blank">deacon@berkeley.edu</a>>; fis <<a href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank">fis@listas.unizar.es</a>><span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">1. Shannon's (1948) definitions in "The Mathematical Theory of Communication". Information is communicated, but is yet meaning free. These notions of information
and communication are counter-intuitive (Weaver, 1949). However, they provide us with means for the measurement, such as bits of information. The meaning of the communication is provided by the system of reference (Theil, 1972); in other words, by the specification
of "what is comunicated?" For example, if money is communicated (redistributed), the system of reference is a transaction system. If molecules are communicated, life can be generated (Maturana).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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meaning to the system. In my opinion, one should in this case talk about "meaningful information" and "meaningful communication" as different from the Shannon-type information (based on probability distributions). In this case, we don't have a clear instrument
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entropy is dimensionless (H). Classical physics, for example, is based on the communication of momenta and energy because these two quantities have to be conserved. In the 17th century, it was common to use the word "communication" in this context (Leibniz).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Sent: 11/17/2017 6:34:18 PM<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Subject: Re: [Fis] some notes<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">On communication:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">"Communication" needs to be more carefully distinguished from mere<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">transfer of physical differences from location to location and time to<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">time. Indeed, any physical transfer of physical differences in this<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">respect can be utilized to communicate, and all communication requires<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">this physical foundation. But there is an important hierarchic<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">distinction that we need to consider. Simply collapsing our concept of<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">'communication' to its physical substrate (and ignoring the process of<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">interpretation) has the consequence of treating nearly all physical<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">processes as communication and failing to distinguish those that<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">additionally convey something we might call representational content.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Thus while internet communication and signals transferred between<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">computers do indeed play an essential role in human communication, we<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">only have to imagine a science fiction story in which all human<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">interpreters suddenly disappear but our computers nevertheless<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">continue to exchange signals, to realize that those signals are not<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">"communicating" anything. At that point they would only be physically<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">metaphoric sense. This sort of process would not be fundamentally<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">or any other similar causal process. It would be odd to say that the<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">sun is thereby communicating anything to the atmosphere.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">So, while I recognize that there are many methodological contexts in<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">which it makes little difference whether or not we ignore this<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">semiotic aspect, as many others have also hinted, this is merely to<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">bracket from consideration what really distinguishes physical transfer<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">of causal influence from communication. Remember that this was a<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">methodological strategy that even Shannon was quick to acknowledge in<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">the first lines of his classic paper. We should endeavor to always be<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">as careful.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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