[Fis] Summary of the New Year Lecture Discussion

[Francesco Rizzo]

Caro Joseph e cari tutti,

l'INFORMAZIONE è un processo consistente o definibile onto-logicamente ed
etimo-logicamente in:
AZIONE (tendente a dare)
FORMA
IN (nel tempo);
* la MISURA è un concetto-proprietà definito da Hegel nella "Scienza della
logica" una QUANTITA'-QUALITATIVA o QUALITA'-QUANTITATIVA sottesa dalle
diverse forme di:
INFORMAZIONE GENETICA
INFORMAZIONE NATURALE O TERMODINAMICA
INFORMAZIONE CIBERNETICA O MATEMATICA
INFORMAZIONE SEMIOTICO-SEMANTICA.
Un abbraccio affettuoso e sempre rispettoso.
Francesco.
Invia








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Il giorno gio 30 gen 2020 alle ore 09:12 Joseph Brenner <
joe.brenner en bluewin.ch> ha scritto:

> Dear Friends and Colleagues,
>
>
>
> For people interested in information, the New Year Lecture on
> disinformation and its discussion has taken place against an unbelievable
> background. It is nightmarish, *ubu-esque*, Orwellian. Literally, the
> United States Minister of Health stated last week that a woman’s *freedom*
> to have an abortion was *slavery*. War is peace. The greatest short-term
> menace to humanity is coming from entities that consist essentially of
> information plus a few bits of protein and RNA. The not-so-long term menace
> is global warming whose existence is considered disinformation by some
> people, themselves heavily involved in disinformation.
>
>
>
> In spite of everything, I think the key issues came out well:
>
>
>
> 1. Disinformation and Misinformation. Intent
>
> There was general agreement on the fact of the existence of disinformation
> and of misinformation as distinct from it. Disinformation is characterized
> by the anti-social intent of the disinformer, although questions remain
> about the detailed structure of intent as an operator.
>
>
>
> 2. Countering Disinformation
>
>             Faced with the pernicious phenomenon of disinformation, there
> was a substantial consensus that ‘something should be done about it’. The
> need for tools, perhaps at first computational ones, to identify
> disinformation in documents was mentioned by several contributors. Others
> suggested the inherent limitations of solely computational approaches and
> the need to find and authenticate other criteria or ‘markers’ to identify
> disinformation. I think there should be a working group on disinformation,
> based on the willingness of FIS members to commit time to it.
>
>
>
> 3. The FIS Group (1)
>
>             I found a certain confusion between different perspectives.
> Considering the diversity of our group, this is not surprising. There has
> not been a consensus about what information and information science are. I
> noted here a lack of consensus about what *foundations* or foundational
> principles are or should be. The result was that many valid insights were
> stated in the form of examples and anecdotal cases, rather than as
> structures or principles. The, for me, basic principle that information is
> a process, an ‘informing’ rather than a datum or data received little
> attention. It should also be obvious that this Lecture could not cover all
> related aspects of communication and *behavioral* science.
>
>
>
> 4. The FIS Group (2)
>
> The above notwithstanding, I feel that many fascinating concepts related
> to information/disinformation, just touched upon here, are well worth
> further development; the following list is completely open for additions,
> including significant points I may have missed. The order is not
> significant:
>
>
>
> -        grounding of disinformation in cognitive structures/the genome ;
>
> -        hypocrisy and other recursive disinformation processes
>
> -        public origins of disinformation
>
> -        the universe of discourse in informational terms
>
> -        art and its informational content
>
>
>
> Thank you. It was a pleasure working with you.
>
>
>
> Joseph
>
>
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