[Fis] Fis Digest, Vol 113, Issue 8

Sat Jun 15 23:40:10 CEST 2024

Dear Kate and Karl,
In his monograph, Mark Burgin reminded the story of the elephant and the
blind men who study it. This also applies to the many definitions of the
term "information". Each studies a separate element of the whole, and would
probably end up saying like the elder of the blind, the elephant is
unknowable!
If one tries to understand all the definitions and theories of information,
one will be disappointed. Simply because many of the definitions are
aphorisms to get around the problem. Such as "It's from bit", "A difference
that makes a difference", etc.
Actually, your specialty is very close to reality, I mean "mental models"
or the meaning a subject assigns to data, incorporating it into a given
mental model.
What Karl defines as information is a rather complex construction in which
two mental models (two permutations) are incorporated into a new mental
model of comparison. The result of this comparison, i.e. how much the two
models differ (the vector from one to the other) is "information" according
to Karl.
But these are only one kind of mental models. You probably know many
others. And they are all information! Emotional models are no exception to
the general rule. Because emotions also have a certain meaning.
Perhaps, in your circles, you use the term "gestalt" instead of mental
model, which is the same thing.
I hope I was useful to you.
With respect,
Krassimir

На нд, 16.06.2024 г. в 0:25 <fis-request at listas.unizar.es> написа:

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>    1. Information as Sequencing and Difference (Katherine Peil Kauffman)
>    2. Re: Information as Sequencing and Difference (Karl Javorszky)
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Katherine Peil Kauffman <ktpeil at outlook.com>
> To: fis <fis at listas.unizar.es>, Karl Javorszky <karl.javorszky at gmail.com>,
> "\"Pedro C. Marijuán\"" <pedroc.marijuan at gmail.com>
> Cc:
> Bcc:
> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2024 12:57:40 -0700
> Subject: [Fis] Information as Sequencing and Difference
> Dear Karl (et al),
> As one who often receives the fish eyes when trying to communicate such a
> divergent view of emotion, I can feel your frustration. But rest assured
> that my claim to want to understand information is legitimate. Indeed, I
> have spent a good deal of time researching everyone’s backstories to better
> understand the models on offer. Yours in particular (given the generous
> depth and quality of your responses), and I conducted the book sorting
> experiment for the third time yesterday just in case I was missing
> something.
>
> You have helped me realize the importance of permutational sorting and
> sequencing in of process of The Tao, with “sequencing” occurring as the
> timeless Domain 0 counterpart of the entropic Arrow of Time in Domain 1.
> You have also emphasized the foundational goal in AI engineering of
> minimizing the difference between between prediction (expected) and actual
> (observed) outcomes. I find these insights central to the hows and whys of
> living systems with emotional sentience - which are far more than
> prediction machines. (Some of my thoughts on this:
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0079610715001169__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!RpvAcfZ_lTGA7ugQpB5nzH__fkpcPUWlkdDspQxwlcMhocQ1PJTHgTZKl-RImO_ErMgeHSDaiAI1FnMP-tE$ 
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0079610715001169__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!XicUWaWWlWRriTTN21FGTH0xHCATELzDq-ukGcyXyKAjhe_9IdCkHdL4a3yP_0JVi0874AOsVjtDHnbxkw$> )
> and here:
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=mvjIDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA144&dq=emotional*sentience*and*fractal*epistemology*2017*Katherine*Peil*Kauffman&ots=IQVlGLJsve&sig=xbv4olyNLKzqL9FiUIDfo4MBJ-Q*v=onepage&q&f=fals__;KysrKysrKysj!!D9dNQwwGXtA!RpvAcfZ_lTGA7ugQpB5nzH__fkpcPUWlkdDspQxwlcMhocQ1PJTHgTZKl-RImO_ErMgeHSDaiAI1ZbGP7Ws$ 
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=mvjIDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA144&dq=emotional*sentience*and*fractal*epistemology*2017*Katherine*Peil*Kauffman&ots=IQVlGLJsve&sig=xbv4olyNLKzqL9FiUIDfo4MBJ-Q*v=onepage&q&f=fals__;KysrKysrKysj!!D9dNQwwGXtA!XicUWaWWlWRriTTN21FGTH0xHCATELzDq-ukGcyXyKAjhe_9IdCkHdL4a3yP_0JVi0874AOsVju0HfiMwg$>
> e
>
> I also find your offerings consonant with the work of Don Hoffman and Mike
> Levin, particularly in terms of “decorative permutations” which link
> repetition and symmetry with visual aesthetics.
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://medium.com/@ilakk2023/208-unveiling-beauty-in-order-a-mathematical-exploration-of-decorative-permutations-0d135cf3d706__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!RpvAcfZ_lTGA7ugQpB5nzH__fkpcPUWlkdDspQxwlcMhocQ1PJTHgTZKl-RImO_ErMgeHSDaiAI1VVICdIw$ 
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://medium.com/@ilakk2023/208-unveiling-beauty-in-order-a-mathematical-exploration-of-decorative-permutations-0d135cf3d706__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!XicUWaWWlWRriTTN21FGTH0xHCATELzDq-ukGcyXyKAjhe_9IdCkHdL4a3yP_0JVi0874AOsVjuY24fGIw$>
>
> Hoffman offers a "Markovian Dynamics of Consciousness" based upon the
> maths of decorative permutations that comes close to the evaluative and
> identity components of my Tao story, enhanced by Levin’s stuff on “the
> self". There’s a great conversation here between them here:
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsy8p435DqM__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!RpvAcfZ_lTGA7ugQpB5nzH__fkpcPUWlkdDspQxwlcMhocQ1PJTHgTZKl-RImO_ErMgeHSDaiAI16uvaBdw$ 
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsy8p435DqM__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!XicUWaWWlWRriTTN21FGTH0xHCATELzDq-ukGcyXyKAjhe_9IdCkHdL4a3yP_0JVi0874AOsVjvr3aUTnA$>
>
>
> So once again, I thank you, and hope to be corrected if I’ve
> misrepresented your wisdom in any way. Oh, as and for getting pictures on
> FIS? Pedro had to “twinkle them” to make that happen. This is why I only
> did that once, to ease any additional burden. But indeed, pictures speak
> volumes.
>
> Fondly,
> Kung Fu Kate
>
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Karl Javorszky <karl.javorszky at gmail.com>
> To: Katherine Peil Kauffman <ktpeil at outlook.com>
> Cc: "\"Pedro C. Marijuán\"" <pedroc.marijuan at gmail.com>, fis <
> fis at listas.unizar.es>
> Bcc:
> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2024 23:25:01 +0200
> Subject: Re: [Fis] Information as Sequencing and Difference
> Lovely.
>
> You happen to be the first adept of the cult of the 12 books.
> Do tell for the record, your experiment with 12 random objects, how many
> cycles have been found in your setup?
>
> Would you like to get a chaperone (like Vergil for Dante) as you discover
> the world of periodic arithmetic? Not that I would be an official explainer
> on matters related to place, amount, prediction, types of matches between
> places and amounts, but the years of playing with order cause me to believe
> that my comments on the matter can save efforts in inventing (recognition
> of) simple but useful patterns found in the process of ordering and keeping
> it in order.
>
> If so, you can learn really basic and fundamental techniques fast, and
> don't have to do trial and error detours that this person already has
> investigated.
>
> So, how many cycles, which lengths?
>
>
> Katherine Peil Kauffman <ktpeil at outlook.com> schrieb am Sa., 15. Juni
> 2024, 21:57:
>
>> Dear Karl (et al),
>> As one who often receives the fish eyes when trying to communicate such a
>> divergent view of emotion, I can feel your frustration. But rest assured
>> that my claim to want to understand information is legitimate. Indeed, I
>> have spent a good deal of time researching everyone’s backstories to better
>> understand the models on offer. Yours in particular (given the generous
>> depth and quality of your responses), and I conducted the book sorting
>> experiment for the third time yesterday just in case I was missing
>> something.
>>
>> You have helped me realize the importance of permutational sorting and
>> sequencing in of process of The Tao, with “sequencing” occurring as the
>> timeless Domain 0 counterpart of the entropic Arrow of Time in Domain 1.
>> You have also emphasized the foundational goal in AI engineering of
>> minimizing the difference between between prediction (expected) and actual
>> (observed) outcomes. I find these insights central to the hows and whys of
>> living systems with emotional sentience - which are far more than
>> prediction machines. (Some of my thoughts on this:
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0079610715001169__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!RpvAcfZ_lTGA7ugQpB5nzH__fkpcPUWlkdDspQxwlcMhocQ1PJTHgTZKl-RImO_ErMgeHSDaiAI1FnMP-tE$ 
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0079610715001169__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Sg8rAh4BkyEWWsC092VLjV88StJq6VhWf8rBX00nNusObCrXshLHc48SNmGD6DoMssW7fRHEAeyVG966uR1hmtSQXos$> )
>> and here:
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=mvjIDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA144&dq=emotional*sentience*and*fractal*epistemology*2017*Katherine*Peil*Kauffman&ots=IQVlGLJsve&sig=xbv4olyNLKzqL9FiUIDfo4MBJ-Q*v=onepage&q&f=fals__;KysrKysrKysj!!D9dNQwwGXtA!RpvAcfZ_lTGA7ugQpB5nzH__fkpcPUWlkdDspQxwlcMhocQ1PJTHgTZKl-RImO_ErMgeHSDaiAI1ZbGP7Ws$ 
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=mvjIDwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA144&dq=emotional*sentience*and*fractal*epistemology*2017*Katherine*Peil*Kauffman&ots=IQVlGLJsve&sig=xbv4olyNLKzqL9FiUIDfo4MBJ-Q*v=onepage&q&f=fals__;KysrKysrKysj!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Sg8rAh4BkyEWWsC092VLjV88StJq6VhWf8rBX00nNusObCrXshLHc48SNmGD6DoMssW7fRHEAeyVG966uR1h2mBg4Qg$>
>> e
>>
>> I also find your offerings consonant with the work of Don Hoffman and
>> Mike Levin, particularly in terms of “decorative permutations” which link
>> repetition and symmetry with visual aesthetics.
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://medium.com/@ilakk2023/208-unveiling-beauty-in-order-a-mathematical-exploration-of-decorative-permutations-0d135cf3d706__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!RpvAcfZ_lTGA7ugQpB5nzH__fkpcPUWlkdDspQxwlcMhocQ1PJTHgTZKl-RImO_ErMgeHSDaiAI1VVICdIw$ 
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://medium.com/@ilakk2023/208-unveiling-beauty-in-order-a-mathematical-exploration-of-decorative-permutations-0d135cf3d706__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Sg8rAh4BkyEWWsC092VLjV88StJq6VhWf8rBX00nNusObCrXshLHc48SNmGD6DoMssW7fRHEAeyVG966uR1hXILBnqU$>
>>
>> Hoffman offers a "Markovian Dynamics of Consciousness" based upon the
>> maths of decorative permutations that comes close to the evaluative and
>> identity components of my Tao story, enhanced by Levin’s stuff on “the
>> self". There’s a great conversation here between them here:
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsy8p435DqM__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!RpvAcfZ_lTGA7ugQpB5nzH__fkpcPUWlkdDspQxwlcMhocQ1PJTHgTZKl-RImO_ErMgeHSDaiAI16uvaBdw$ 
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsy8p435DqM__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!Sg8rAh4BkyEWWsC092VLjV88StJq6VhWf8rBX00nNusObCrXshLHc48SNmGD6DoMssW7fRHEAeyVG966uR1h9XHBZJw$>
>>
>>
>> So once again, I thank you, and hope to be corrected if I’ve
>> misrepresented your wisdom in any way. Oh, as and for getting pictures on
>> FIS? Pedro had to “twinkle them” to make that happen. This is why I only
>> did that once, to ease any additional burden. But indeed, pictures speak
>> volumes.
>>
>> Fondly,
>> Kung Fu Kate
>>
>>
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