[Fis] The beginning of scientific dialogue (Please, be more realistic)

Sat Oct 5 21:32:27 CEST 2019

Dear Malcolm, Michel, Mark, and FIS Colleagues,
Thank you for the letters!

Answer to Malcolm :

“If you can explain how these kinds of thoughts originate and function, then you have the beginning of scientific dialogue”. 
Yes, I can. You may see this in the paper:

   Kr. Markov, Kr. Ivanova, I. Mitov. Basic Structure of the General Information Theory. International Journal “Information Theories and Applications”, Vol.14, No.: 1, 2007. pp. 5-19.   http://www.foibg.com/ijita/vol14/ijita14-1-p01.pdf  

And also, you nay see:  
   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. pp. 303 -321.   http://www.foibg.com/ijita/vol24/ijita24-04-p01.pdf  

Answer to Michel and Mark: 

Both religion and science, in difference to  Durkheim ( http://home.ku.edu.tr/~mbaker/cshs503/durkheimreligiouslife.pdf  ),
are created by human’s consciousness in parallel but not as consequence one from another. 

Yes, religious thinking is the main base for morality and social uniting and unifying as Durkheim had written. 

But the science is another type of thinking. 
In details I had explained this in the paper:  

K. Markov, S. Poryazov, K. Ivanova, I. Mitov, V. Markova. Culture Aspects of Inforaction. Proceedings of the XIII-th Int. Conf. "Knowledge-Dialogue-Solution" KDS-2007. Varna, Bulgaria. Sofia, ITHEA, 2007, pp. 625-633. International Journal INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES & KNOWLEDGE, Volume 2, 2008, Number 4, pp. 335-342.   http://www.foibg.com/ijitk/ijitk-vol02/ijitk02-4-p06.pdf 

At the end, why I stress on excluding the religion from our discussions? 

Because all relations to believing and faith are kind of advertisement of religion but not constructive discussion.

For instance, If one believes, than he/she needs only to eat fruits of special kind of tree and all knowledge will be received. No need of science and discussions!

Please see for instance:

Common English Bible,  Book of Genesis, Chapter 3, Knowledge, not eternal life, 6 ; https://www.biblestudytools.com/ceb/genesis/3.html 

QURAN, Sura 2,  The Heifer al-Baqarah, 35 : https://www.clearquran.com/002.html  

Curiously, the primary knowledge received by Adam and Eve had been lost! 
They had eaten these fruits but what they only had understood was that they were naked! 
Were they so stupid? :-)

Friendly greetings
Krassimir

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Prof. Dr. Krassimir Markov
Honorary professor
University of telecommunications and posts
Sofia, Bulgaria

President of the ITHEA® Institute of Information Theories and Applications
and the ITHEA® International Scientific Society

www.ithea.org

e-mail: president at ithea.org  

From: Mark Johnson 
Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2019 6:07 PM
To: fis 
Subject: Re: [Fis] Fis Digest, Vol 61, Issue 9 (Please, be more realistic)

Dear all,  

Durkheim's analysis of the "Elementary forms of Religious Life" is not a bad starting point for clarifying what we are talking about (or in the case of Karl, what we might not want to talk about).

Durkheim distinguishes "belief" from "ritual". This seems sensible. Both have an information content, don't they?

The information of belief might be dismissed as "fake news" (or is that a kind of heresy?!) or not, but the information content of ritual  is partly diachronic in a way that belief isn't, and presents a case where one might identify a relation between the diachronic dimension of a rite and the synchronic dimension of a belief. Theatre, music and media share these properties, and we admit them to our domain of inquiry - and they may well have their roots in ritual (see Jane Harrison - "Ancient art and Ritual"). Since our modern lives are no less replete with rituals (like writing on FIS) it seems highly relevant to explore their information content.

For a more philosophical view on this, Simon Critchley's new book "Tragedy, the Greeks and Us" is excellent in his unpicking of the Platonist view of the world and upholding the diachronic ambiguity of ancient drama (and by extension, ritual, or what Critchley calls "meta-ritual")

Best wishes,

Mark

On Sat, 5 Oct 2019, 13:03 Michel Petitjean, <petitjean.chiral at gmail.com> wrote:

Dear All,
We receive "information" from family, teachers, TV, journals,
internet, preachers, and so on.
I am ready to discuss about information in the context of religious
beliefs and other beliefs, and I am ok to hear about information in
such contexts on the FIS forum.
The contrast is considerable between the FIS forum and what is stated
by many Churches: "no doubt about what is taught: divin laws apply;
doubting is a sin" (doubting deserves blame, and sometimes death, as
say some fanatics).
It was true along the past centuries, and alas it is still true now at
many places.
Older are the "fake news", more people believe in them.
Many people doubt about the validity of the content of recent books,
but, for older books such that holy scriptures, it is amazing to see
that so few people doubt about the validity of their content: their
content IS true.
Well, I forget that there are several contents and that the hundred of
millions of believers disagree between themselves.
At least many millions of believers should be wrong, if not all :)
Are my words shocking?
If yes, apologies.
It is ok to discuss information in scientific contexts (include social
sciences, humanities, etc.), but if you prefer to discuss about
information from a religious point of view, it is ok, too.
You may decide.
Sincerely,
Michel.

Michel Petitjean
Université de Paris, BFA, CNRS UMR 8251, INSERM ERL U1133, F-75013 Paris, France
Phone: +331 5727 8434; Fax: +331 5727 8372
E-mail: petitjean.chiral at gmail.com (preferred),
        michel.petitjean at univ-paris-diderot.fr
http://petitjeanmichel.free.fr/itoweb.petitjean.html

Le sam. 5 oct. 2019 à 12:26, Malcolm Dean <malcolmdean at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2019 12:02:45 +0300
>> From: "Krassimir Markov" <markov at foibg.com>
>> To: "Malcolm Dean" <malcolmdean at gmail.com>, "FIS"
>>         <fis at listas.unizar.es>
>> Subject: [Fis] Please, be more realistic!
>>
>> Dear Malcolm,
>> "religious, mythical or esoteric kinds of thoughts" belong to the class of believing.
>> Believing is nice psychological condition but not constructive and useful.
>> For instance, I believe that I am a rich man, but unfortunately in real I am not!
>> Because of this I could not take part in very interesting FIS and IS4IS conferences!
>> Please, be more realistic!
>> Friendly greetings
>> Krassimir
>>
> My point is that even if your bias is accepted as absolutely true, just for one moment, that does not excuse any definition of Information from having to explain their origins and functions.
>
> Dismissing them as beliefs, psychological conditions, and "not constructive and useful" is not itself "constructive or useful." It is your opinion and worldview.
>
> If you can explain how these kinds of thoughts originate and function, then you have the beginning of scientific dialogue. Otherwise, not. And such an explanation, for the purpose of this forum, should be limited to the nature of Information, and not other hypotheses such as we can find in Anthropology and Evolutionary Psychology.
>
> Malcolm Dean
> Editor: How Information Creates Its Observer (Lerner 2019)
> Member, Higher Cognitive Affinity Group, BRI
> Research Affiliate, Human Complex Systems, UCLA
>
> So it is necessary for you to be abreast of everything; on the one hand, the unshakable heart of well-rounded truth, and, on the other, the opinions of mortals, in which there is no true conviction. (Parmenides, Fragment 24)
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