[Fis] Information Foundation of the Act--F.Flores & L.deMarcos

[Pedro C. Marijuan]

Hola Fernando & Luis,

Many thanks for your contribution, quite interesting to read. I really 
second the previous comments from Joseph, Gyuri and Jerry. I also see a 
few other points:
--The relationship between entropy and culture taken as order is rather 
risky. I think there is a misunderstanding of entropy on which I 
strongly recommend the work of Arieh Ben-Naim (2013, entropy and the 
second law), quite a lot of fuzzy mysticism has been produced around.  
That the artificial work reduces human information to the simple world 
of a cyborg is dubious (how many informational decisions made by the 
cavemen versus the urbanite?) The respective emotional rewards of their 
choices are another matter.
--About the complexity of human acts everyday activities apparently are 
"conceptually simple", quite deceptively--they become the most difficult 
ones to be performed by robots versus the complex but easy industrial 
operations. These everyday activities look easy because of a previous 
learning process only. For instance in my trip to Vienna, after arrival 
I got lost three times while taking the airport bus, the tram, the 
metro, etc. Terrible experience that forced myself into a lot of 
informational (wrong) choices and explorations. However next day I was 
just the master (in spanish "el puto amo"). The tremendous initial 
complexity had been assimilated and my transportation acts were now very 
easy. Not including these crucial aspects on the relative complexity, 
and how it is transformed when navigated by the sophisticated "deep 
learning" strategies of our nervous system is not OK in my opinion.
--When computing the informational value of human acts, the number of 
bit attributed to fingers, hands, limps, body, etc. look rather 
arbitrary. The same for the law of information conservation as presently 
formulated. (How do this dovetail with the cyclic nature of human life? 
There is "information generation" and non-conservation, no?)
--When analyzing technologies the procedure followed does not look very 
clear, in particular regarding the invariability of the total level of 
information value. However, the final two pages on the relationship 
between informational value and price look quite interesting and in my 
opinion they are the best  section of the paper.
Overall the attempt is quite brave and full of suggestions...

Best--Pedro

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