[Fis] The Age of Discord. The Foundations of DIS-information Science

[Terrence W. DEACON]

As a starting point I recommend a book just out by Frederik Stjernfelt
& Anne Mette Lauritzen
titled "Your Post has been removed"
It is available free online as a pdf
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2F978-3-030-25968-6.pdf

On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 1:29 PM Joseph Brenner <joe.brenner at bluewin.ch>
wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
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> I thank both those of you who commented and those who did not. I would
> like to understand the latter - why there were only 6 responses: was my
> formulation in fact too ‘political’? Do people think that negative things
> like disinformation don’t require analysis? The key things I learned:
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> Annette:
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> Three clear contributions:
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> 1) Understanding disinformation and misinformation is part of a full
> conceptualization of information.
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> 2) Principles applying to them may have essential implications for the
> underlying physics (and other sciences).
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> 3) We should list again the things we do *not *understand as a key part
> of our strategy.
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> Jaime:
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> A melancholy posting. I had thought human beings possessed recursive
> levels of cognitive processing such that even disinformation and selfish
> behavior are the not the results of blind instinct alone. When those
> capacities atrophy . . .
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> Krassimir:
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> 1) The strengths and weaknesses of what it is to be human.
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> 2) Avoid lies *and *liar paradoxes. They are binary ‘traps’ for thought.
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> Terry:
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> Thank you. Clearly,
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> 1) Normative aspects of information should be an essential part of a full
> scientific conceptualization of it.
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> 2) Lets start with just *one *way to mitigate the operation of
> disinformation.
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> Joseph:
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> I mention a term I just heard for the first time on Swiss TV – infobesity.
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> We need an informational biotope to treat this.
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> I look forward to a next round, even though this is not a formal
> discussion topic.
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> Best wishes.
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-- 
Professor Terrence W. Deacon
University of California, Berkeley
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