[Fis] "MIND, LIFE, and MACHINES"

[Krassimir Markov]

Dear colleagues,


1. People externalize their mental models by using different languages -
linear and/or nonlinear, general and/or specialized.

Usually, we call externalized mental models knowledge.

What I want to note is that there is no initial assumption, which language
is better and which is worse. In each specific case, people use one
language or another, and most often - hybrid language forms.

Ultimately, the wealth of languages is the basis for the development of
civilization, which the parable of the Tower of Babel reminds us of.

This was also defended by St. Cyril before the Vatican, which as a result
recognized the Bulgarian language as the third sacred language of
Christianity, along with Latin and Greek. But this does not oppose these
languages to the others, for example, Chinese or Japanese.

*Therefore, I do not accept it as good to oppose the language of biology to
those of mathematics and physics.*

The synergy of languages gives a better result.



2. The main task of science is to develop specialized languages for
representing mental models, reflecting different entities of reality.

Information studies as a science are no exception. They need their own
language constructs that are convenient for reasoning and interaction.

Such constructs are offered by the General Information Theory (GIT).

Here I will recall four concepts from GIT that are relevant to the topic of
the present discussion.

The first concept is "*Infos*".

To avoid misunderstandings with the concepts subject, agent, animal, human,
society, humanity, living creatures, etc., we use the abstract concept
“INFOS” to denote every of them as well as all of the artificial creatures
which have features similar to the former ones.

Within the concept of Infos, three concepts have been introduced that serve
to distinguish active entities of living, non-living (machines) and hybrid.

*The basis for this division is the way in which these entities reproduce.*

At the moment, we know that the only entities that reproduce on the basis
of genes are living entities. They are represented by the concept of "
*Infogen*".

The non-living active entities, which in the framework of this discussion
are called “machines”, can be reproduced in an electro-mechanical way
without the use of genes. Therefore, the non-living active entity is called
"*Infotron*".

Finally, we all witness the integration of living and non-living entities
to achieve various goals. Such a hybrid entity is called "*Infohybrid*".


With respect,

Krassimir

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