[Fis] Article Computation on Information, Meaning and Representations

[Jose Javier Blanco Rivero]

Dear Colleagues,

First and foremost, thank you Karl for the synthesis. I like this
definition of meaning very much, because of its transdisciplinary
potential, so to speak. For instance, semantic meaning can also be
described in these very same terms. Speech acts (using a philosophical
analytic concept, though without the intention to restrict us to this
school of thought) take place in sociolinguistic contexts, which are
nothing but systemic constraints. These constraints reduce ambiguity and
therefore become meaningful, that is, they allow us to focus social action
and communication with regard to their most plausible continuations. And
continuation, as the concept of autopoiesis has taught us, is vital for the
self-conservation of the system.

Thank you Christhophe for this essay, I will certainly enjoy it.

Best,

Javier

El jue, 16 feb 2023 a las 11:32, Karl Javorszky (<karl.javorszky en gmail.com>)
escribió:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
> Christophe Menant has shared an article “*Computation on Information,
> Meaning and Representations. An Evolutionary Approach*” with us. In this
> work, following points describe the meaning of the term “meaning”.
>
> *1) A meaning (the environment is becoming hostile versus the satisfaction
> of vital constraints) is associated to an information (level of acidity)
> received from an entity of the environment (drop of acid).*
>
> *2) The meaning is generated because the system possesses a constraint
> linked to its nature (stay alive) that has to be satisfied for the system
> to maintain its nature.*
>
> *3) A meaning is generated because the received information has a
> connection with the constraint of the system (too high an acidity level
> impacts the satisfaction of the vital constraints).*
>
> *4) A meaning is a meaningful information generated by the system
> relatively to its constraint and to its environment (the environment
> is becoming hostile versus the satisfaction of the vital constraint).*
>
> *5) The meaning is going to participate to the determination of an action
> that the system is to implement (move away from acid area) in order to
> satisfy its constraint and maintain its nature (stay alive).*
>
> *These five characteristics lead to a systemic definition of a meaning for
> a system submitted to a constraint that receives an information from an
> entity of its environment:” A meaning is a meaningful information that is
> created by a system submitted to a constraint when it receives an incident
> information that has a connection with the constraint. The meaning is
> formed of the connection existing between the received information and the
> constraint of the system. The function of the meaningful information is
> to participate to the determination of an action that will be
> implemented in order to satisfy the constraint of the system”. This
> definition of a meaning tells what the meaning is and what the meaning is
> for. *
>
> The concept is wholly supported by what the numbers tell us. (In ancient
> times, it was the flight of eagles that supported or not a hypothesis,
> today we are more advanced and no less useful, practical and wise.)
>
> The concept of the meaning that there is something that an occurrence
> refers to, is in relation with. In Christophe’s example above, the change
> in properties oft he surroundings of the assembly (a drop of acid into the
> habitat) refers to a physiological – ideal – state which has been changed.
>
> The general concept of ideal state, ideal arrangement, ideal balance,
> ideal cooperation, etc. can be seen in planar geometry by the places and
> properties of *two central elements. *The central elements become visible
> to the naked eye if one reorders some realizations of *a+b=c *into some
> other orders. (Eg. Reorder between sorting orders [a+b,b] ↔ [b-2a,a-2b].)
>
> There exists an inbuilt reference system in which all appearances are
> somehow different to each other in a gradable fashion. There exist two
> relative Zeroes of being in any way different to the absolutely average
> member of the assembly.
>
> This letter is supporting the general ideas expressed in the work.
>
> Karl
>
>
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