> >Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:04:13 -0500
> >To: fis@listas.unizar.es
> >From: "Stanley N. Salthe"
<ssalthe@binghamton.edu>
> >Subject: Re: [Fis] Post-concluding remarks:Realism/anturealism: Laws
of
> > nature?
> >
> >Commenting upon Andrei's:
> >>Of course, the main problem is as Soren Brier emphasized that we
do not
> >>have at the moment the real understanding of information. It is
always
> >>reduced to the definition of probability, through entropy.
> > There are three active concepts of information, which do not overlap
> >and are not commensurable, they are
> >(1) Shannon's information is a reduction in uncertainty or variety of
> >possibilities.
> >(2) In the mathematical sciences, information is any constraint on
entropy
> >production (which is any event whatever in our universe). It is
represened
> >in constants in descriptive equations.
> >(3) In semiotics information is Bateson's 'a difference that makes a
> >difference' to some system of interpretance, changing ts behavior.
> > If only the first was dealt with in our discussions, we have been
> >quite remiss.
> >
> >STAN
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