[Fis] Welcome to Knowledge Market and the FIS Sci-coins

Wed Mar 21 23:42:29 CET 2018

Dear Krassimir and other FISers,

After reading the interesting contribution of Krassimir, I would like to 
share with you some of my impressions and ideas.

I like very much the term INFOS suggested by Krassimir. It’s possible to 
suggest that Krassimir assumed the following definition.
An INFOS is a system functioning (behavior) of which is regulated by 
information.
This definition implies that each INFOS has an information processor.
Then it is possible to distinguish different categories and types of 
INFOS. For instance:
      INFOS only with acceptors/receptors
      INFOS only with effectors
      INFOS with both acceptors/receptors and effectors
Then it is possible to develop an interesting theory of INFOS.

At the same time, the difference between reality and consciousness needs 
improvement because what many people mean using the word reality is 
actually only one of the variety of realities, namely, the physical or 
material reality, while consciousness is a part of the mental reality. 
It is possible to find more information about different realities and 
their interaction in the book (Burgin, Structural Reality, 2012). 
Please, don’t confuse Structural Reality with virtual reality.

One more issue from the interesting contribution of Krassimir, which 
allows further development, is the structure of a model. Namely, the 
relation (s, e, r) between a model s of an entity r forms not simply a 
triple but a fundamental triad, which is also called a named set.

Why this is important? The reason to conceive the structure (s, e, r) as 
a fundamental triad or a named set is that there is an advanced 
mathematical theory of named sets, the most comprehensive exposition of 
which is in the book (Burgin, Theory of Named Sets, 2011), and it is 
possible to use this mathematical theory for studying and using models. 
For instance, the structure from Figure 1 in Krassimir’s letter is a 
morphism of named sets. Named set theory describes many properties of 
such morphism and categories built of named sets and their morphism. The 
structures from Figure 2 in Krassimir’s letter are chains of named sets, 
which are also studied in named set theory.

To conclude it is necessary to understand that if we want to apply 
mathematics in some area it is necessary to use adequate areas of 
mathematics. As Roger Bacon wrote, All science requires mathematics, but 
mathematics provides different devices that are suited to different 
input. In this respect, when you give good quality grains to a 
mathematical mill, it outputs good quality flour, while if you put the 
same grains into a mathematical petrol engine, it outputs trash.

The theory of named sets might be very useful for information studies 
because named sets and their chains allow adequate reflection of 
information and information processes.

Sincerely,
Mark

On 3/11/2018 3:34 PM, Krassimir Markov wrote:
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>
> This letter contains more than one theme, so it is structured as follow:
>
> - next step in “mental model” explanation;
>
> - about “Knowledge market”, FIS letters’ sequences and FIS Sci-coins.
>
> *1. The next step in “mental model” explanation:*
>
> Let remember shortly my letter from 05.03.2018.
>
> To avoid misunderstandings with concepts Subject, agent, animal, 
> human, society, humanity, living creatures, etc., in [1] we use the 
> abstract concept “INFOS” to denote every of them as well as all of 
> artificial creatures which has features similar to the former ones.
>
> Infos has possibility to reflect the reality via receptors and to 
> operate with received reflections in its memory. The opposite is 
> possible - via effectors Infos has possibility to realize in reality 
> some of its (self-) reflections from its consciousness.
>
> The commutative diagram on Figure 1 represents modeling relations. In 
> the frame of diagram:
>
> - in reality: real models: s is a model of r,
>
> - in consciousness: mental models: s_i is a mental model of r_i ;
>
> - between reality and consciousness: perceiving data and creating 
> mental models: triple (s_i , e_i , r_i ) is a mental model of triple 
> (s, e, r).
>
> It is easy to imagine the case when the Infos realizes its reflections 
> using its effectors, i.e. relation between consciousness and reality: 
> realizing mental models and creating data. In this case the receptors’ 
> arrows should be replaces by opposite effectors’ arrows. In this case 
> triple (s, e, r) is a realization of the mental model (s_i , e_i , r_i ).
>
> clip_image002
>
> Figure 1
>
> After creating the mental model it may be reflected by other levels of 
> consciousness. In literature several such levels are described. For 
> instance, in [2], six levels are separated for humans (Figure 2). The 
> complexity of Infos determines the levels. For instance, for societies 
> the levels are much more, for animals with no neo-cortex the levels a 
> less.
>
> image
>
> Figure 2.   [2]
>
> This means that the mental models are on different consciousness 
> levels and different types (for instance - touch, audition, vision).
>
> In [2], Jeff Hawkins had remarked: “The transformation— from fast 
> changing to slow changing and from spatially specific to spatially 
> invariant— is well documented for vision. And although there is a 
> smaller body of evidence to prove it, many neuroscientists believe 
> you'd find the same thing happening in all the sensory areas of your 
> cortex, not just in vision” [2].
>
> As it is shown on Figure 2 mental models are in very large range from 
> spatially specific to spatially invariant; from fast changing to slow 
> changing; from “features” and “details” to objects”.
>
> To be continued...
>
> *2.Aabout “Knowledge market”, FIS letters’ sequences and FIS Sci-coins.*
>
> The block-chain idea is not new. All forums and mailing lists have the 
> possibility to organize incoming messages in internally connected 
> sequences. The new is the Bit-coin, i.e. the price for including a 
> message in the sequence received after successful solving a difficult 
> task.
>
> What we have in FIS are letters’ sequences already created for many 
> years. What is needed to start using them is to be strictly when we 
> answer to any letter not to change the “Subject” of the letter. The 
> list archive may help us to follow the sequences - only what is needed 
> to ask sorting by [ Subject ] 
> <http://www.ithea.org/pipermail/ithea-iss/2018-March/subject.html>. We 
> may sort by [ Thread ] 
> <http://www.ithea.org/pipermail/ithea-iss/2018-March/thread.html>[ 
> Subject ] 
> <http://www.ithea.org/pipermail/ithea-iss/2018-March/subject.html>[ 
> Author ] 
> <http://www.ithea.org/pipermail/ithea-iss/2018-March/author.html>[ 
> Date ] <http://www.ithea.org/pipermail/ithea-iss/2018-March/date.html>.
>
> This means that the letter corresponds to the block, and the sequence 
> of letters corresponds to the chain.
>
> What about the currency?
>
> In [3] we had introduced the new concept “Knowledge marked”. It is 
> remembered in [4] where the approach for measuring the scientific 
> contributions was proposed. It was proposed to use the “paper” as 
> basic measurement unit. Now I may say, the paper is our “Sci-coin”. 
> This Sci-coin is convertible to real currencies - it is wide accepted 
> the price of a paper to be downloaded as pdf-file is about 30-35 EURO 
> or USD.
>
> Finally, the paper “Data versus Information” [5] is an example of a 
> FIS Sci-coin mined from the letters’ sequences.
>
> As we had seen, it is not so easy to “mine the Sci-coin”!
>
> Friendly greetings
>
> Krassimir
>
> References
>
> [1] Kr. Markov, Kr. Ivanova, I. Mitov. Basic Structure of the General 
> Information Theory. IJ ITA, Vol.14, No.: 1, 2007. pp. 5-19.
>
> [2] Hawkins, Jeff (2004). On Intelligence (1st ed.). Times Books. p. 
> 272. ISBN 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Standard_Book_Number>0805074562 
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0805074562>.
>
> [3] K. Markov, K. Ivanova, I. Mitov, N. Ivanova, A. Danilov, K. 
> Boikatchev. Basic Structure of the Knowledge Market. IJ ITA, 2002, 
> V.9, No.4, pp. 123-134.
>
> [4] Kr. Markov, Kr. Ivanova, V. Velychko, “Usefulness of Scientific 
> Contributions”, International Journal “Information Theories and 
> Applications”, Vol.20, Number 1, 2013, ISSN 1310-0513 (printed), ISSN 
> 1313-0463 (online), pp. 4-38.
>
> http://www.foibg.com/ijita/vol20/ijita20-01-p01.pdf
>
> [5] Krassimir Markov, Christophe Menant, Stanley N Salthe, Yixin 
> Zhong, Karl Javorszky, Alex Hankey, Loet Leydesdorff, Guy A Hoelzer, 
> Jose Javier Blanco Rivero, Robert K. Logan, Sungchul Ji, Mark Johnson, 
> David Kirkland, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic. Data versus Information. 
> International Journal “Information Theories and Applications”, Vol. 
> 24, Number 4, 2017, ISSN 1310-0513 (printed), ISSN 1313-0463 (online), 
> pp. 303 -321.
>
> http://www.foibg.com/ijita/vol24/ijita24-04-p01.pdf
>
>
>
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