Notes on Information and Causality
February 5, 2019 — Bradley Venner
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As a further and dual link to causality, we (Longo & Montévil, 2016) show that in all existing physical theories, each random event corresponds to a continuous or discrete symmetry-breaking and to time irreversibility.
Does this link Peirce’s tychism with Longo’s work on symmetry breaking?
We know from human history that when common sense and myths combine, they are unassailable and any change requires a true revolution.
In our view, instead, Data are “Compressed Theories” (and not viceversa), since to collect them supposes a theoretical perspective, the choice of observables, measurement theory and tools …, see (Longo, 2016).
Longo, G 2016“A review-essay on reductionism: some reasons for reading”Reductionism, Emergence and Levels of Reality. The Importance of Being Borderline”, a book by S. Chibbaro, L. Rondoni, A. Vulpiani.Urbanomic, London, https://www.urbanomic.com/document/on-the-borderline/ , May 8.
The TOFT approach to cancer refers to early intuitions by C. Waddington, J. Needham and a few others (1930s), later forgotten by the subsequent genocentric perspective, see (Soto & Sonnenschein, 2011) for references.
Needham pops up in so many different contexts.
Longo, G “Mathematical Infinity “in prospettiva” and the Spaces of Possibilities” Visible, Semiotics J., n. 9