[Fis] _ RE: _ Re: Cho 2016 The social life of quarks

[Loet Leydesdorff]

There is real communication between cells, people, organizations... as the
input is sensed (or disregarded) and judged according to boundary conditions
and to the accumulated experiential information content of the entity. The
outcome is adaptive: aiming at the self-production/self-propagation of the
entity.

 

"Real communication" among cells? It depends on how one defines
communication. 

Cells, for example, are not able to apologize for the misunderstanding.

 

But there is, indeed, adaptation based on exchange relations among cells.
This can also be considered as Shannon-type of communication + feedback
loops. 

 

Best,

Loet

 

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