Logic in Reality

Brenner, Joseph E.

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“…This apparent partial overlap between cause and effect should be a signal that the concepts of cause and effect themselves may follow some interactive pattern in their evolution. Following Lupasco, I have suggested [4] a contradictorial picture of cause-effects that applies at both the physical and theoretical levels. Among the classical examples of Symmetry cited in [8] are situations or processes, such as rest -motion which may display a certain Symmetry.…”

Section: Symmetry-breakingmentioning

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Symmetry and Information: Brothers in Arms

Brenner

2015

Proceedings of ISIS Summit Vienna 2015—The Information Society at the Crossroads

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Accepted: Introduction. RationaleThe description of this Session included many goals or questions, of which I discuss two here: 1) what do we consider physical information? 2) What are the roles of different appearances of symmetries in taking a stand on these questions? In a recent paper [1], based on a contribution I made to an Essay Contest on the subject, I discussed whether information or energy was more fundamental in the universe [2]. My answer (which did not win a prize), published elsewhere [3], was that energy was definitely more primitive than information as bits, but that energy and information as difference in energy emerged together from an unknown substrate, perhaps the quantum vacuum. Subsequently, energy and information always accompany one another. They follow the extension of logic to real processes or systems that I have called Logic in Reality (LIR) [4]. LIR is grounded in the dualistic properties of energy and applies to the evolution of complex processes at biological, cognitive and social levels of reality.A direct relationship between energy and information has been established by Gerhard Luhn in his Causal-Compositional Concept (CCC) of information [5]. In this conception, the first change of state of any kind in the universe resulted in a non-uniform energy-density distribution, thus a new form. From this follows a Compositionality Principle that states if that there are fundamental processes in the Universe (the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics; the Pauli Exclusion Principle) and that they interact at all, this principle was itself new irreducible information or a basic principle of the universe, the basis for all subsequent processes of the emergence of form and structure. The new form thus results in a further unequal distribution of energy, and the meaning or content of this new form are the activities which this non-equilibrium distribution of energy induces, which appear as new laws. The universe appears to operate in such a way as to increase the number of new states or laws, that is, information. 2Unlike standard bivalent and multi-valent linguistic logics and their mathematical equivalents, LIR is not topic-neutral but founds an ethics. It is therefore relevant to the development of an information commons in which information is a carrier of value, even at the lowest level as in the concept of Luciano Floridi [6]. Accordingly, theories which support or add credibility to the dialectical physical approach of my logical system ipso facto also support its application in the ethical domain. -Forming (In the beginning . . .) The key postulate of LIR is that any element of an energetic process A is always accompanied, logically and functionally, by its opposite or contradiction non-A but only to the extent that when A is predominately actual (or present or active), non-A is always predominantly potential, alternately and reciprocally, without either ever going to the ideal limit of 0 or 1. The mid-point of equal actuality or potentiality is one of maximum opposition from which new entities...

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Section: Symmetry-breakingmentioning

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“…Subsequently, energy and information always accompany one another. They follow the extension of logic to real processes or systems that I have called Logic in Reality (LIR) [4]. LIR is grounded in the dualistic properties of energy and applies to the evolution of complex processes at biological, cognitive and social levels of reality.…”

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Symmetry and Information: Brothers in Arms

Brenner

2015

Proceedings of ISIS Summit Vienna 2015—The Information Society at the Crossroads

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“…The basis of my critique was my recent extension of logic to real process phenomena (Logic in Reality; LIR) [3], including "information" seen as a complex set of generation, transmission and reception processes.…”

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“…In [3], I presented a reformulation and update of the original work of the Franco-Romanian philosopher Stéphane Lupasco (Bucharest, 1900-Paris, 1988) in a book entitled Logic in Reality. Since then, through contacts and discussions, in particular with Wolfgang Hofkirchner, Pedro Marijuan, Rafael Capurro, Mark Burgin and Gerhard Luhn, to whom I am very grateful, it has emerged, literally, that LIR may offer a useful framework for the discussion of information.…”

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On Representation in Information Theory

Brenner¹

2011

Information

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Abstract:Semiotics is widely applied in theories of information. Following the original triadic characterization of reality by Peirce, the linguistic processes involved in information-production, transmission, reception, and understanding-would all appear to be interpretable in terms of signs and their relations to their objects. Perhaps the most important of these relations is that of the representation-one, entity, standing for or representing some other. For example, an index-one of the three major kinds of signs-is said to represent something by being directly related to its object. My position, however, is that the concept of symbolic representations having such roles in information, as intermediaries, is fraught with the same difficulties as in representational theories of mind. I have proposed an extension of logic to complex real phenomena, including mind and information (Logic in Reality; LIR), most recently at the 4th International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science (Beijing, August, 2010). LIR provides explanations for the evolution of complex processes, including information, that do not require any entities other than the processes themselves. In this paper, I discuss the limitations of the standard relation of representation. I argue that more realistic pictures of informational systems can be provided by reference to information as an energetic process, following the categorial ontology of LIR. This approach enables naïve, anti-realist conceptions of anti-representationalism to be avoided, and enables an approach to both information and meaning in the same novel logical framework.

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“…In science, 'before' and 'after' have been crucial distinctions triggered by efficient causation, even though the resulting texts are reported in a timeless universal present tense (Kampis 1991). If something is reported as changing, it would be shown as changing in a constitutive way characteristic of a kind of investigated system-thus, as developing (Salthe 1993), or as a property (Brenner 2008). Actual change (evolution) is relegated to history.…”

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Inside / Outside

Salthe

2009

Biosemiotics

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Søren Brier is a thinker who seems to have come to Peircean semiotics because of anxiety about the fact that cognitive science lacks contact with subjectivity. From another point of view, I myself have considered that this semiotic approach might provide a way to expand science more generally away from its mechanistic habits. Brier's book attempts to examine texts related to information science from a Peircean semiotic perspective, with a view towards better understanding, or possibly even subverting, Cartesian dualism. For this purpose he examines the cognitive science-autopoietic and ethological discourses as reflecting one branch of science's nearest approach to mentality; neurology is not given significant attention. But the attempt reaches a stalemate as the book closes upon what I would call the internalism / externalism complementarity. Charles Peirce asserted that feeling is an integral aspect of the world generally, and hinted as well that it could be transformed into mattergy, but science, in its Twentieth Century eagerness to serve technology, has dismissed such ideas as 'pseudoscience'. Brier does not examine possibilities opened up by quantum mechanics on this issue (e.g., Laszlo 1995), although Penrose's thinking is mentioned from time to time. While Brier does not succeed in 'squaring' the Cartesian 'circle', he circles around the project vigorously, returning again and again to the quest (redundancy works!) while taking the reader on a long trek in search of this grail. This is an extremely rich text, and my focus here upon a few of its important points will not do it justice overall.The major problem driving the inquiry in this book is signaled by the subtitle: "Information Is Not Enough" (to understand understanding). To this end Brier proposes to meld together classical science, systems and cybernetic science, and Peircean semiotic in his 'cybersemiotic model', laid out in a final chapter. The incommensurability or incompatibility of the internalist and externalist perspectives (subjective / objective; conscious experience / information processing; res cogitans / res extensa) is in my view the overriding reason for the existence of this book,

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Logic in Reality

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