Re: information and causality

Andrei,

on information and causality please
take a look at: http://www.capurro.de/trialog.htm
kind regards
Rafael

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Von: <abir.igamberdiev@risoe.dk>
An: Multiple recipients of list FIS <fis@listas.unizar.es>
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2001 15:12
Betreff: information and causality

> Philosophical background for the meaning of information cannot be resolved
> without our understanding of causality. Causality can be viewed as having
> four constituents (in Aristotelian sense): material, efficient, formal and
> final. Physics quantified at first the material cause (as mass), then
> efficient (as energy). Information means quantification of the formal
cause
> while the final cause means (in physics) observability, i.e. it is
expressed
> via anthropic principle. Aristotle called the final cause 'entelechy' and
it
> is not information in a common sense, but the question exists about
> computability from the future state (works of Dubois). Aristotle
emphasized
> that 'the forms as a knowledge' are inherited, and this was later
described
> in genetics as a transfer of biological information. I would not accept
> information as a primary concept including mind and matter per se, but it
> 'binds' both as signifiant and signifie, i.e. it has important semiotic
> dimension.
>
> Best wishes, Andrei Igamberdiev
>
Received on Thu Dec 13 15:43:27 2001