Re: [Critical-Realism] Critical Realist Philosophy of Information

["Dave Taylor" <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David

With respect, you want to go first to the primary sources, C E Shannon's
"The Mathematical Theory of Communication" (wherein information was for the
first time self-consistently defined, as distinguishable differences in a
signal decoded in a receiver, so "redundant" information could be used to
detect and correct false signals), and to the decoding of such signals in
the logic-based digital computers Shannon invented (first explicated in the
four-level [programming] language Algol68. [See Woodward and Bond,
"Algol68-R Users Guide"], available on-line).  When you understand those,
and how switchable logic circuits performatively express programming
information, how logic circuits and error correction feedback logics
correspond to deductive and retroductive logic, and how four levels on a
linear measure are four phases of a circular measure, you will begin to have
the concepts necessary to understand how Bhaskar's dialectical model of the
scientific interpretation of reality is a particular case of the
interpretation of information.  Whether Bhaskar or any other published
Critical Realists have realised this well enough to articulate it seems very
unlikely.  

Dave 


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Subject: [Critical-Realism] Critical Realist Philosophy of Information

I'm wondering if anyone could point me to sources concerning a critical
realist account of "information" and any connections to the field of the
philosophy of information.  Thanks.
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