[Fis] Biologic - at the interface between biology, topology, logic and cybernetics (by Lou Kauffman)

[Krassimir Markov]

Dear Lou,

Thank you very much for the answer !

 I would make the following short comments:



1. "... it may be better to use the word and understand that it has
different meanings in different contexts".

Yes, it is possible for laypeople to use terms vaguely, but for scientists,
it is imperative to specify and use concepts correctly.



2. "For example, an entangled quantum state has the property that measuring
it in New York gives us “information” about the consequent measurement in
San Francisco."

Here it is necessary to trace the data path and determine exactly where,
when, how, and what data is transformed into information.

We perceive the *data of measuring devices* through our sensors, usually -
eyes, after which they pass through the sensory memory and enter the
temporary memory. It is here that our consciousness has already prepared a
corresponding mental model (Information Expectation,” IE”) loaded from long
term memory , through which we will recognize the data. Only after they are
recognized and connected to the information expectation, the data, together
with the part of the IE with which it is connected (meaning!), are
perceived as information. That is, only at this stage, we will have mental
model, which is “ “information” about the consequent measurement in San
Francisco", because our mental model, with which we operate at the moment,
contains such knowledge, i.e. it was previously memorized in our long term
memory.

If there is no mental model to be used for IE, the consciousness tries to
create a new one (a new concept!) and/or remember the data as unrecognized,
for example, as is the case with UFOs.

I will add that in my opinion, the informational expectation and its
resolving are the generator of the emotions.

This concludes my discussion of my note on Chapter 5 “Quantum Mechanics,
Copies, and Distinctions” from the New Year's Lecture.

Further discussion of it would divert attention elsewhere, and we should
therefore temporarily suspend it.



3. I would like to make a small note regarding Chapter 3 “Logic, Copies,
and DNA Replication”.

The formalism of DNA replication presented in the chapter is:

< W|C > → < W||C > → < W|E|C > → < W||C >< W||C > → < W|C >< W|C >

It models the DNA replication process correctly.

But after DNA replication, two new environments are also created. Unlike
DNA replication, in certain cases, replication of the environment does not
create copies, but specializations that are based on different parts of the
DNA, i.e. different types of cells are created - nerve, muscle, skin, etc.

I'm curious how we could mathematically model this process? I don't have an
answer to that question.

With respect,

Krassimir
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