ONT Re: Information = Comprehension x Extension -- Discussion

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ICE.  Discussion Note 45

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HT = Hugh Trenchard

Hx: ICE Discussion 38.  http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg05328.html
Hx: ICE Discussion 43.  http://suo.ieee.org/ontology/msg05333.html

HT: So, let me see if I can synthesize what you've said:
    HU is a principle that has broader applications than to
    only the measurement of velocities vis a vis positions of
    sub-atomic particles;  you intuitively see a way to apply
    this principle semiotically and to classical information
    formalisms (i.e. Peircean).  If so, there's no need to
    "break" anything, it seems to me ...

PHUey >>>~~~>>> PHUsys

Classically, well, post*classically, HU was always about exchange relations
between any observable and its conjugate or dual, so the pairs were things
like position/momentum, time/energy, and so on.  It's a commonly remarked
puzzle to figure out how to squeeze things like mass and energy out of
the raw materials of logic, so for the moment I will just pick on the
vastly easier problem of working out the differential extension of
propositional calculus.  I gave some links to this once or thrice
before, but I'm headed out to see "Flutterby Affect" in a trice,
so I will have to dissemble those links again later.  To make
a continuous story discrete, there are many surprises that
arise when you push the analogy from the world of R to
the world of B.  But Billy Boy beat me to that line,
too.

HT: Sounds like the intuition for an important contribution is there,
    with just a few knots to unravel. In the words of Shakespeare's
    Iago "t'is there, but yet confused".  I look forward to seeing
    your thought processes as the PHU unravels before our e-yes.

Those old dudes got all the best lines:

"But tho' obscur'd, this is the form of the Angelic land."

http://www.blakearchive.org/cgi-bin/nph-1965/blake/erdman/erd/@Generic__BookTextView/6037

Jon Awbrey

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