Re: Platonic information theories

> On the other hand, information is also closely related to logic,
> and logic was separated from psychology and other empirical
> studies by Frege and Husserl in Europe, and Peirce in America,
> at great length, and I think convincingly. Peirce also related logic
> to information.
>
> My own feeling is that the concept of information transcends
> the distinction between Platonic and Aristotelian versions of
> morphs, and that is one of its strengths.
>
> John
>

in this case we should be able to develop a *Theory of information
relativity*, i.e. give up (if ever we had it...) a general representation
of information as a kind of fluidum or 'quinta essentia' separated
from the local systems and constraints. It seems to me that we have
to deal with the *divide* that separates systems (as humans) being
able to behave (in different ways) to time (and space) and systems
*just* being in time/space (in different ways, as living/non living systems.
The *bridge* between humans-in-time and other systems could be
Weizsaecker's view of a 'logic of time' i.e. of irreversibility (at least
from the relative viewpoint of a finite observer/actor). *Richer* forms
of information depend on the ability of a system to *relate* to time/space.
But this *relation* is a problematic one, since time and space are
not of the kind of empirical objects (as Kant stated). So too our
relation to information is a (in a Kantian sense) *problematic* one
(i.e. there is no *solution* as in case of empirical *problems*). To
conceive ourselves (and our Selves) as an *information machine*
is a *phantasmatic* idea...
Rafael
Received on Sun Jan 5 14:19:30 2003