:up: Yes, everything needs to be unified and integrated. Understanding how this works and how everything is a product of this, will be the basis of In...
That is the idea. :up: If you could provide a link I would be interested too read it? A contender to Shannon, Donald Mckay suggested that information ...
Hi Mark, I'm not sure what you mean. I hope I am not giving the impression that I know precisely how neuroplasticity works. I am trying to conceptuali...
In the act of observing the form of an object will cause a change to the form of the neural patterning of an observer. The change in the neural patter...
Where have you defined, or even described what information is? As I have said previously, the minimum number of yes / no questions quantifies informat...
How about you take some of your own advice, and also read some background on the history of his Theory of Communication, as it was initially published...
The observing is the cause of the information. There is no information one way or the other until an interaction occurs. This interaction may also be ...
Shannon's theory centres around quantifying the amount of information traveling over the wires of the phone company he worked for. Nothing to do with ...
You need an observer or a measuring device. You don't know the situation of either until a measurement is made. ** You have no information until an in...
"Information" is : the evolutionary interaction of form, tells you what information "is ". That it is the interaction of form . Shannon's theory tells...
Yes, Information is fundamental. This is the trend, as I read it, these days. with proposals such as the mass - energy - information equivelence princ...
I don't think this is true. Information is a very difficult thing to define, because everything is information. Other definitions do not recognize thi...
As far as I can see, the systems view is relevant in all circumstances. I have only really considered it in very fundamental situations, and not so mu...
Looks like this will be one of those threads where I talk to myself. :sad: In Darwin's evolution, there is evolution and natural selection. Theoretica...
Does thinking take place in the human brain? Firstly, Human thought requires the approximately 86 billion neurons that the brain contains. However, we...
The point I was trying to make is that we can deconstruct to gain insight, but then we have to construct new understanding in terms of our new insight...
We can either deconstruct to achieve insight, or construct a big picture consistent with science and physics which I prefer to do. And when I do I fin...
If she is saying that the value of any philosophy is the end point reality it creates, I would agree. :100: But if we differ dramatically in these con...
Yes, nothing can exist outside of the interaction of ideas, but the interaction of ideas has a physical basis in neurobiology, and given a systems und...
Where have I stated that I am doing science? I do theory. That everything is information is already implied in Systems Theory and Enactivism, but I ho...
You had better tell that to the professor who wrote the evolutionary origin of form and function above, and those other ones at MIT in the video. By t...
You are a case. :roll: One guys opinion from 1958 against contemporary science. Go Banno. Mind AssociationConfirmable and Influential MetaphysicsAutho...
Systems theory enables a view of the universe as an evolving articulation of systems. Where everything is informationally created bottom up and articu...
I'm trying to provide you with an overview of how the game works, but yes, this also necessarily becomes another game. Another form of the game. If yo...
Wit did not have the benefit of any of the theories that I mention. So he could not go deeper than word games. In other words, how you conceive the be...
There is a way to understand the game that Wit refers to. It is a game of the interaction of forms. The forms can be anything physical. It is not so i...
Very impressive Banno. Here begins the world of informational structure. What came first - the thought or the physical structure that enabled it? How ...
I'm not much interested in his thinking, I was referring to the quote you posted. The relationship of one part to another, is where logical structure ...
Yes, I'm glad you understand how we are enmeshed into the whole biosphere evolving, otherwise enactivism might lead you to some sort of solipsistic id...
You touched upon it with your quote from Wit. Dig a little deeper and you find that the relationship of two things, is the metaphysical base of logic....
Yes, but it's about a way of seeing things. Whether certain paradigms are consistent with reality, or not. Obviously much must happen outside of our a...
In the beginning there was the word, and the word was god. This is very much the same as all beginnings, in the sense that they are a relation of one ...
Wheeler's it from bit concept implies that physics, particularly quantum physics, isn't really about reality, but just our best description of what we...
It may not be immediately obvious, but if this is a "valid and irreducible" definition of information, and if everything is information, then logicall...
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