[Fis] 回复： Novel Information Paradigm

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Dear All,


Dr. Jaime Cardenas-Garcia raised an important issue for information studies, the paradigm of study. I give my very strong support to this proposal.


The importance lies in the fact that what we study is information science whereas the paradigm we use is the one from physical science. Therefore, the change in paradigm is necessary and urgent.


For more information, please also see the "Methodology of Information Ecology" by Mark Burgin and Yixin Zhong.


Best regards,


Yixin




 
 
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发件人: "Jaime Cardenas-Garcia"<jfcardenasgarcia at gmail.com>;
发送时间: 2020年6月4日(星期四) 晚上9:33
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主题: [Fis] Novel Information Paradigm

 

 
Dear all,
 
Two recently published papers might be of interest. Their titles and abstracts are given below. They relate to a fundamental perspective on information that points to a novel generic paradigm of information. I welcome your comments. 
 
Bateson Information Revisited: A New Paradigm
 
Abstract: The goal of this work is to explain a novel information paradigm claiming that all information results from a process, intrinsic to living beings, of self-production; a sensory commensurable, self-referential feedback process immanent to Bateson’s difference that makes a difference. To highlight and illustrate this fundamental process, a simulation based on one-parameter feedback is presented. It simulates a homeorhetic process, innate to organisms, illustrating a self-referenced, autonomous system. The illustrated recursive process is sufficiently generic to be the only basis for information in nature: from the single cell, to multi-cellular organisms, to consideration of all types of natural and non-natural phenomena, including tools and artificial constructions.
 
The link is: https://www.mdpi.com/2504-3900/47/1/5 
 
The Process of Info-Autopoiesis – the Source of all Information
 
Abstract: All information results from a process, intrinsic to living beings, of info-autopoiesis or information self-production; a sensory commensurable, self-referential feedback process immanent to Bateson’s ‘difference which makes a difference’. To highlight and illustrate the fundamental nature of the info-autopoietic process, initially, two simulations based on one-parameter feedback are presented. The first, simulates a homeostatic control mechanism (thermostat) which is representative of a mechanistic, cybernetic system with very predictable dynamics, fully dependent on an external referent. The second, simulates a homeorhetic process, inherent to biological systems, illustrating a self-referenced, autonomous system. Further, the active incorporation/interference of viral particles by prokaryotic cells and the activation of CRISPR-Cas can be understood as info-autopoiesis at the most fundamental cellular level, as well as constituting a planetary network of self-referenced information. Moreover, other examples of the info-autopoietic nature of information are presented to show the generality of its applicability. In short, info-autopoiesis is a recursive process that is sufficiently generic to be the only basis for information in nature: from the single cell, to multi-cellular organisms, to consideration of all types of natural and non-natural phenomena, including tools and artificial constructions.
 
The link is: https://rdcu.be/b4dnU 
 
Kind Regards,
 
Jaime


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Jaime F. Cárdenas-García, PhD, PE
JFCardenasGarcia at gmail.com
(240) 498-7556 (cell)
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