Re: Information & Physics

Dear All:

   Werner Ebeling has given us a nice summary statement on the
relationship between Information and Physics. That is:

   As responding to Roberto Kampfner's point

>> I also think that Werner's notions of free and bound information provide
>> a nice framework for the analysis. One consequence of dealing with various
>> levels of organization seems to be the need to consider couplings of free
>> and bound information probably nested at those levels.

Werner clearly stated

>I think the real problem is, how one of those forms of information
>can be converted into the other.

   For Roberto's further comment

>>Werner's distinction between free and bound
>>information more difficult to discern, especially in the context of
>> biochemical and physiological processes.

Werner's

>Here are most of the unsolved problems

sounds impressive.

   All of these seem to suggest at least to me that there are
a lot of homework to do in the endeavor for relating information
to physics or vice versa. For the time being, is there anyone who
would raise some new items from a bit different perspoective?
Ray Paton, don't you have any?

   Regards,
   Koichiro

      Koichiro Matsuno

P.S. As clear from Allan Combs' previous posting, we will have
a meeting on Emergence in Helsinki during August 3-7, 1998.
The conference's webpage is:

   http://bio.nagaokaut.ac.jp/~matsuno/emergence.html

If interested, take a look at it. Still in time if you
intend to submit the paper for the Conference. The
contact person is George Farre at farreg1@gusun.georgetown.edu
Received on Thu Feb 12 06:15:11 1998