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Shannon M. Mussett: Entropic Philosophy: chaos, breakdown, and creation, Lanham: Roman & Littlefield, 2022, 203 pp., ISBN: 978-1-78,661-246-5
Shannon Mussett’s Entropic philosophy offers a creative and important new lens through which the history of philosophy and a number of contemporary...
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The Relationship Between Logical Entropy and Shannon Entropy
This chapter is focused on develo** the basic notion of Shannon entropy, its interpretation in terms of distinctions, i.e., the minimum average...
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The Compound Notions for Logical and Shannon Entropies
In this chapter, all the compound notions of simple, joint, conditional, and mutual logical entropy are defined and then the corresponding notions of...
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Shannon + Friston = Content: Intentionality in predictive signaling systems
What is the content of a mental state? This question poses the problem of intentionality: to explain how mental states can be about other things,...
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A New Perspective on Old Ideas in González de Salas’s Nueva idea de la tragedia antigua
This chapter examines Jusepe Antonio González de Salas’s manifesto on acting, Nueva idea de la tragedia antigua, published in 1633. Salas based most...
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Further Developments of Logical Entropy
This chapter develops the multivariate (i.e., three or more variables) entropies. The Shannon mutual information is negative in the standard...
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Conclusion
The purpose of this chapter is to summarize the new foundations for information theory presented in the book and to point out work yet to be done on...
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Ethical Life and the Feminist Critic
Feminism seeks to critically uncover how we, individually and socially, are engaged in sexist oppression. Revealing how we are habituated into sexism...
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Holographic Matter
This chapter introduces Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver’s theory of information. Information transmits in a material transducer and can be...
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New Foundations for Information Theory Logical Entropy and Shannon Entropy
This monograph offers a new foundation for information theory that is based on the notion of information-as-distinctions, being directly measured by...
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Role of IT Solution Design in Food Labelling. Ethics, Communication and Interdisciplinarity on the Test Bench
Within the traditional conception of communication, the subjects involved in the communicative process are divided into emitter and receiver of the...
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The Hard Problem of Semantic Communication
This paper describes semantic communication as an arbitrary loss function. I reject the logical approach to semantic information theory described by...
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Can informational thermal physics explain the approach to equilibrium?
In this paper I will defend the incapacity of the informational frameworks in thermal physics, mainly those that historically and conceptually derive...
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Categories of Complexity
The problem of complexityComplexity is discussed in the frame of the new principle of systematization on the three categories: synchronic...
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Concluding Remarks
In this work, the relationship between the phenomena.
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Logical Entropy
This book presents a new foundation for information theory where the notion of information is defined in terms of distinctions, differences,...
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Approaching probabilistic laws
In the general problem of verisimilitude, we try to define the distance of a statement from a target, which is an informative truth about some domain...
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Phenomenology of social explanation
The orthodox view of social cognition maintains that mentalizing is an important and pervasive element of our ordinary social interactions. The...
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Education in the Neganthropocene: A Pharmacological Search
This chapter reviews Bernard Stiegler’s concept of the Neganthropocene and his pharmacological approach. I look at some of the reviews of this...