[Fis] 10 Principles
Pedro C. Marijuan
pcmarijuan.iacs at aragon.es
Sat Jul 11 22:07:25 CEST 2020
Dear List,
I am responding to Moisés having in mind some good points mainly from
Marcus and Krassimir (not to forget Yixin, Loet, and many others). There
could be a top-down approach to establish, say, some general 10 points
(or better, a series of basic principles). And also a complementary view
of establishing particular bottom-up tables for different disciplines,
as Moisés discusses. It is not contradictory. At the time being,
however, trying to establish clear and cut general classifications of
information may be premature and not very practical. It is inevitable
that our own particular approaches are colored by the main expertise
each one has. In my own case, I do not mean "biology" but LIFE. It is
very different. The genuine properties of information appear with life:
the capability to persist and react and relate according to inner drives
unseen in inanimate matter. The expansion of biotic realms and the
further generation of more and more complexity brings forth more and
more forms of information (& meaning, & knowledge, languages, etc.).
Thus we may speak of an "informational way of existence" that in
different ways manifests in cells, organisms, societies, companies,
institutions, etc. Grasping its essentials could seemingly be done in
both bottom-up and top down.
Then, a little bit from our bacterial grand-grand-mothers. When they
feed (on their basic staples) they ingest them from the environment via
specialized pumps and transporters. But before fabricating those
transporters, they have to detect the existence of the substance in
question. And they do that via specialized receptors (1-2-3 component
systems); with them they can also communicate with conspecifics or
interfere with rival species, and many other things. Jorge Navarro and
me compiled a couple of good reviews about those signaling systems.
Thus, there is a genuine energy flow that is entered into the bacterial
system, yes, but it is supported and intertwined with an information
flow that continuously tells the system about its external and internal
environs. It is not so different from the way we vertebrates have our
own flows. On the one side, we have a digestive tube to catch free
energy from our food, plus another tube, all along the Central Nervous
System from the brain to the end of the spine (full of the cerebrospinal
fluid) to catch information. It is an ancestral trait, say, derived from
prechordates. One tube processes the energy flow, the other processes
the information flow. Not to forget that in both the bacterial and the
vertebrate the energy&info flows are the necessary support of a life
cycle in progress. To emphasize the latter: the life cycle has a
towering presence in all the informational existential arrangements (not
in abstract, it is just our private lives!)
That preamble (with far more adornment) could be the basis of a new way
of thinking that properly deployed would lead, or would condense, in
some renewed 10 principles--or more realistic, just 10 points. So,
rather than repeating the tautology (info is info), I suggest that Point
1 and 2 could be something like this:
1. Information as such: distinction of a difference.
2. Information processes: addressed to signaling&communication, and
potentially involving the stages of generation, encoding, emission,
transmission channel, reception, decoding/processing, meaning, response.
3. to be continued...
Greetings to all
--Pedro
El 05/07/2020 a las 16:30, Moisés André Nisenbaum escribió:
> Dear friends.
> It is very nice to hear from you and I hope everybody is well and healthy.
> The 10 principles table is amazing. I love good and intelligent
> summarizations :-)
> But it is important to remember that the concept of information is
> context dependent (for example: biological, physical, social,
> philosophical, etc.)
> So, in my opinion, it should have "n" tables, one for each context.
> These tables may be related, forming a classification or even an ontology.
> For those who believe that the concept of information can be unified,
> I guess that the construction of these tables would be the first step.
> We are 102 specialists in the FIS list. Wouldn't be an interesting
> collective project to build this multidimensional object composed of
> tables with interdisciplinary connections?
> What do you think?
> Cheers
> Moisés
>
>
>
> Em dom., 28 de jun. de 2020 às 14:58, Loet Leydesdorff
> <loet at leydesdorff.net <mailto:loet at leydesdorff.net>> escreveu:
>
> Dear Krassimir,
>
>
> I find it difficult to follow. I added some comments and questions?
>
>
> Best,
>
> Loet
>
> *1. Information is a primary concept*
>
>
>
> *2. Information is a secondary concept*
>
> 1. Information can be considered as information, neither matter
> nor energy.
>
> Matter is expressed as mass (e.g. kilograms). Energy in Watts;
> information in dimensionless bits.
>
>
>
> 1. Information is a class of reflections in material entities. Not
> every reflection is information. */Only /**/subjectively
> comprehended /**/reflections are information. Not comprehended
> reflections are data./*
>
> *Why subjectively? Why “data” instead of information.*
>
> *
> *
>
> *It seems that there can be mutual information between information
> and reflections? -:)*
>
> 2. Information is comprehended into structures, patterns,
> messages, or flows. What do you mean with “comprehended”? Who is
> comprehending?
>
>
>
> 2. Reflections may be comprehended as structures, patterns,
> messages, flows, etc.
>
> What is reflected by whom
>
> Or is this universally the case?
>
> 3. Information can be recognized, can be measured, and can be
> processed (either computationally or non-computationally).
>
>
>
> 3. Reflections can be recognized, can be measured—what is the
> dimensionality? How can it be measured? , and can be processed
> (either computationally or non-computationally).
>
> The measurement is not clear.
>
> 4. Information (it seems to me that these are entropy and energy
> flows) flows are essential organizers of life's self-production
> processes--anticipating, shaping, and mixing up (vague) with the
> accompanying energy flows.
>
>
>
> 4. Reflection flows are essential organizers of life's
> self-production processes--anticipating, shaping, and mixing up
> with the accompanying energy flows.
>
> 5. Communication/information exchanges among adaptive life-cycles
> underlie the complexity of biological organizations at all
> scales.Perhaps even beyond biology.
>
>
>
> 5. Communication is based on special kind of reflections created
> by one entity and reflected by a second one. This way, the
> reflections comprehended as information by the first entity may be
> secondary reflected by the second one. Such information exchanges
> among adaptive life-cycles underlie the complexity of biological
> organizations at all scales.
>
>
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Loet Leydesdorff
>
> Professor emeritus, University of Amsterdam
> Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)
>
> loet at leydesdorff.net <mailto:loet at leydesdorff.net>;
> http://www.leydesdorff.net/
> Associate Faculty, SPRU, <http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/>University
> of Sussex;
>
> Guest Professor Zhejiang Univ. <http://www.zju.edu.cn/english/>,
> Hangzhou; Visiting Professor, ISTIC,
> <http://www.istic.ac.cn/Eng/brief_en.html>Beijing;
>
> Visiting Fellow, Birkbeck <http://www.bbk.ac.uk/>, University of
> London;
>
> http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en
> ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7835-3098;
>
> ------ Original Message ------
> From: "Krassimir Markov" <markov at foibg.com <mailto:markov at foibg.com>>
> To: "FIS" <fis at listas.unizar.es <mailto:fis at listas.unizar.es>>
> Sent: 6/28/2020 3:46:22 PM
> Subject: [Fis] 10 Principles
>
>> Dear Marcus and FIS Colleagues,
>> From my point of view the main choice which has to be made in the
>> very beginning is between two opposite cases:
>> 1. *Information is a primary concept*
>> *2. **Information is a secondary concept*
>> This is fundamental choice which cause all further work.
>>
>> As I already had pointed, if information is a primary concept
>> than no theories about information can be created. One may create
>> many other theories for EVERYTHING but not for information. Only
>> infinite variety of examples may be created but not fruitful
>> theory and discussions. For instance, the religious approach
>> belong to this class.
>>
>> The second case gives us possibility to create theories ABOUT
>> information starting from one or more other primary concepts.
>> I prefer the second case. The primary concepts I have used are
>> Entity and Relationship
>> (http://www.foibg.com/ijita/vol14/ijita14-1-p01.pdf), and
>> Reflection as a result of interaction between entities.
>>
>> To illustrate the difference between two cases, let see the first
>> 5 principles of Pedro in the two variants:
>>
>> *1. Information is a primary concept*
>>
>>
>>
>> *2. Information is a secondary concept*
>>
>> 1. Information is information, neither matter nor energy.
>>
>>
>>
>> 1. Information is a class of reflections in material entities.
>> Not every reflection is information. */Only subjectively
>> comprehended reflections are information. Not comprehended
>> reflections are data./*
>>
>> 2. Information is comprehended into structures, patterns,
>> messages, or flows.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2. Reflections may be comprehended as structures, patterns,
>> messages, flows, etc.
>>
>> 3. Information can be recognized, can be measured, and can be
>> processed (either computationally or non-computationally).
>>
>>
>>
>> 3. Reflections can be recognized, can be measured, and can be
>> processed (either computationally or non-computationally).
>>
>> 4. Information flows are essential organizers of life's
>> self-production processes--anticipating, shaping, and mixing up
>> with the accompanying energy flows.
>>
>>
>>
>> 4. Reflection flows are essential organizers of life's
>> self-production processes--anticipating, shaping, and mixing up
>> with the accompanying energy flows.
>>
>> 5. Communication/information exchanges among adaptive life-cycles
>> underlie the complexity of biological organizations at all scales.
>>
>>
>>
>> 5. Communication is based on special kind of reflections created
>> by one entity and reflected by a second one. This way, the
>> reflections comprehended as information by the first entity may
>> be secondary reflected by the second one. Such information
>> exchanges among adaptive life-cycles underlie the complexity of
>> biological organizations at all scales.
>>
>> I am afraid that many of FIS members prefer the first case.
>> I do not know who prefer the second one beside me. If such ones
>> exist, please write to me and we will continue the productive
>> common work.
>> Friendly greetings
>> Krassimir
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