[Fis] Five Clouds over Fundamental Information Science.

[Krassimir Markov]

Dear Xueshan,



Regarding your question in section



*Cloud 2. Brain Informatics or Animal Informatics*:

Can we assume that there are as many types of animal informatics as there
are animal species?



I would like to note that there must obviously be a difference in the
models that we build for different animal species, since the structure of
the brain differs, for example, there is a neocortex in mammals, while in
other animals it is not.



A very important distinguishing feature of humans, in relation to other
animals, is the presence of writing and specific only to humans written
information interaction, part of which is this letter.



There is no other animal that uses e-mail :-) !!!



In connection with



*Cloud 5. Exploration of Fundamental Information Science*

and your question: Does Fundamental Information Science (FIS) exist at all?



I would like to note that at the moment I do not see a clear definition of
FIS as an independent science, but in my opinion it is possible that such a
scientific direction will appear in the future.



The interdisciplinarity that exists within our community prevents the
formation of a relatively separate direction.


This is also evident from the discussions in the FIS list, which are
usually superficial without the possibility of in-depth insight into the
problems, due to the unpreparedness of the audience regarding the necessary
special knowledge on each of the discussed issues, as well as the
unwillingness of the presenters to answer “simple” questions, which leads
to a huge burden on the listeners, who need to deal with tons of
specialized literature from new areas for them.



I consider it an inappropriate approach to say a few words and throw a list
of literature for “acquaintance” at the reader!



At the same time, small teams of highly qualified scientists who have
in-depth knowledge of more than one or two scientific directions would
achieve significant success. This is evidenced by a number of publications
whose authors are part of well-prepared interdisciplinary teams.



I will refrain from commenting on *Cloud 3*, as I am not an expert in the
field of genetics, as well as *Cloud 1* and *Cloud 4* for the opposite
reason. The latter requires a long conversation and small comments would do
more harm than help to clarify the issues. For me, they are of particular
importance, which is also evident from the main theme of the IS4SI Summit
2025: “The Key Role of Information Interaction” (
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://is4si.org/summit-2025/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!TdrWSw6KLuOFyYhAWXj-5GOp3i80kymnaej420hAyORTgf5T6vU34In2sg0Omx7L-756LSyRJPgaNfDE6vI$ ).



With respect,

Krassimir
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