[Fis] 10 Principles

[Pedro C. Marijuan]

Dear List,

I am following with interest the ongoing exchanges related (at least 
initially) to the 10 Principles. I my view, there is a fundamental 
problem, difficult to expostulate, that somehow lurks in most of these 
messages taken from different generalizing perspectives: the Shannonian, 
the cognitive, the data processing, the art.intelligence, the 
panbiological, the pansemiotic, dynamic systems, etc.

In my own approach 3 years ago, I purposely left that basic problem 
almost untouched and started by a tautology (Wiener's dictum), although 
the problem partially reappeared behind other points (basically 4 and 5, 
and also 8). My unresolved hunch contemplated a central element –the 
life cycle, from the cellular to the biographic– having the potential to 
organize the new scientific discourse on information and nucleating the 
new mode of thought, appearing as the fundamental source/sink, 
emitter/receptor, and essential organizer of the informational way of 
being in the world, the only creator of "meaning" and "knowledge". But 
time has passed and I have not been able to decently cohere the info 
scheme of the cell with the neural processing evolutionary 
functionality, the individual human inquirer's limitations, and the 
thought collective within a culture. The info day-to-day that our 
organisms spontaneously live in!

OK, I admit the problem may not be very well put... In my opinion, 
advancing in the resolution of this presumed informational conundrum 
brings to the fore fundamental philosophical discussions—disentangling 
them concerns stances from both information science and information 
philosophy, I think.

In any case, if I am right about the persistence of that unsolved stuff, 
there is always a consensus option: to agree in some bridging principles 
or fundamentals, even if they are not so tight-sound (it happens in the 
beginnings of many new disciplines--some parties may remember I 
advocated years ago for an ad hoc face-to-face meeting only about these 
problems). Or we can continue waiting for the synthetic effort of 
individuals within/outside this thought collective to find out an 
acceptable meta-perspective... And if I am wrong, and one of the 
generalized perspectives above has muscle to bring sufficient solution, 
then it will finally prevail and as usual "the winner takes all". Time 
will tell. I am inclined towards the consensus option.

Best wishes

--Pedro

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Pedro C. Marijuán
Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group

pcmarijuan.iacs at aragon.es
http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/
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