Re: passing the moderation

From: <[email protected]>
Date: Thu 21 Mar 2002 - 10:33:05 CET

Dear colleagues,

Some days ago Wolfang was proposing reflection on a couple of points:

>- try to identify common and general obstacles to an over-arching
>concept of information, on the one hand, in a kind of top-down manner;
>- and, on the other hand, in a bottom-up way try to find concrete
>obstacles in certain areas.
>

I would respond to the former suggesting "THE PARTICULATE COMPLEX", as a
Western cultural trait that emphasizes atomistic constituents almost
everywhere: physics, chemistry, biology (genes as particles for heredity),
behaviorism, social sciences (social atomism--utilitarism), even in
linguistics (phonems),and of course, reductionism in philos. of sci...

As for the second, lack of a parsimonious info view of the cell, and of the
human nervous system.

best

Pedro

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Pedro C. Mariju�n
Fundaci�n CIRCE
CPS Univ. Zaragoza, 50015 Zaragoza, Spain
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