È divertentissimo leggere E.T. Jaynes, in particolare i suoi ultimi lavori. Questo passaggio è da "The Gibbs Paradox". Si può scaricare qui.

There is a school of thought which militantly rejects all attempts to point out the close relation between entropy and information, claiming that such considerations have nothing to do with energy; or even that they would make entropy subjective and it could therefore have nothing to do with experimental facts at all. We would observe, however, that the number of fish that you can catch is an objective experimental fact; yet it depends on how much subjective information you have about the behavior of fish.

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Esiste una corrente di pensiero che respinge con forza ogni tentativo di evidenziare la stretta relazione tra entropia e informazione, sostenendo che tali considerazioni non abbiano nulla a che fare con l’energia; o persino che renderebbero l’entropia soggettiva, e che quindi non potrebbe avere alcun legame con i fatti sperimentali. Osserviamo, tuttavia, che il numero di pesci che si possono catturare è un fatto sperimentale oggettivo; eppure dipende da quanta informazione soggettiva si possiede sul comportamento dei pesci.

#SecondLaw #SecondaLegge #Jaynes #Entropy #Fisica #Termodinamica #Thermodynamics

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I released a Clerestory #podcast: https://pod.fo/e/228c45

Has the Human Experience Changed? with Isabela Granic @IsabelaG

#Schopenhauer #Nietzsche #Jaynes #Kuhn #Althusser #history #philosophy @philosophy @history

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1065: Alphabet

Episode: 1065 Inventing the alphabet — sowing progress and chaos. Today, we invent the alphabet — and we sow seeds of discord.

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#cuneiform #hieroglyphics #jaynes #language #linguistics #phoenicians #speech #stoichiometry #sumerian #writing

I recorded a #podcast out in the Woods for the first time. Took a bit of doing to get the volume right but I'm reasonably happy with the output.

In this episode, I speak in the Wood about what I'm interested in why. This includes #Pyrrhonism, #Buddhism, #Spinoza, #Schopenhauer, #Nietzsche, #Hume, #Peirce, #Kuhn, #Jaynes, #McGilchrist, and more.

https://pod.fo/e/165031

#Jaynes: On the Origin of #Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind (1976):

"But there can be no progress in the science of consciousness until careful distinctions have been made between what is intro-spectable and all the hosts of other neural abilities we have come to call cognition. Consciousness is not the same as cognition and should be sharply distinguished from it."

I discussed metaphor with a fun group recently. https://anchor.fm/bkam/episodes/A-Discussion-of-Metaphor-e1t6c0q

#McLuhan, #Jaynes, #McGilchrist, Douglas #Hofstadter, #Heidegger, Barbara #Ehrenreich, #Freud, #Nietzsche, Ivan #Bilibin, #Tarkovsky, #Durkheim, #Kuhn, Lera Boroditsky, Johnson and #Lakoff 😊