[Fis] Emergence of Human Sexual Behaviour--some Fun

Tue Feb 17 12:35:16 CET 2026

Dear Pedro & the experts of art:

You wrote that "a great movie ... made me laugh".

Can we agree that films are a specific form of art?
Films represent something else (namely, e.g., certain humans in certain 
situations)
than they physically are themselves (namely, strings of photos or of 
computer bits).
Given that, can we agree that films are symbols, even if complex ones?
May we also agree that even art in general consists of specific kinds of 
symbols?

Art is produced by humans with the intention to be received by (mostly) 
other humans.
Can we agree that art is symbolic communication between humans?
And that the artist's intended effect of art at the receiver is inducing 
emotions?
In the body, emotions are carried by symbols, either certain chemicals, 
nerve pulses
or cellular excitation states.

So, is art a specific kind of symbolic information transfer between humans?

By the way, also sex symbols such as bosoms have the purpose of inducing 
emotions.

Rainer

Am 16.02.2026 um 21:33 schrieb Pedro C. Marijuán:
> Dear Rainer & FIS Colleagues,
>
> First, I would like to join our Chinese Colleagues in the Celebration 
> of their New Year. The year of the Horse: *新年快乐 (Xīnnián kuàilè)*
>
> And then I would like to ad some fun to the provocative hypothesis of 
> Rainer on the evolution of female breast. It comes from a great movie:
>
> "... this scene from It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World 
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://alligator-tunny-3mj4.squarespace.com/config/It's*20a*20Mad*20Mad*20Mad*20Mad*20World__;JSUlJSUl!!D9dNQwwGXtA!WFVu5YtDhZzbe0e_7mOB2Pt7JnW7MHh2IhYnE6n_cPg0KuCsp1MfjahpRzbtgplyPcZUTLkte8H-PEOkRlkp8unyo9Od$> featuring 
> Milton Berle (J. Russell Finch) and Terry-Thomas (J. Algernon 
> Hawthorne) - it made me laugh and I ended up watching the rest of the 
> film.
>
> *J. Algernon Hawthorne*: I must say that if I had the grievous 
> misfortune to be a citizen of this benighted country, I should be the 
> most hesitant of offering any criticism whatever of any other.
>
> *J. Russell Finch*: Wait a minute, are you knocking this country? Are 
> you saying something against America?
>
> *J. Algernon Hawthorne*: Against it? I should be positively astounded 
> to hear anything that could be said FOR it. Why the whole bloody place 
> is the most unspeakable matriarchy in the whole history of 
> civilization! Look at yourself! The way your wife and her strumpet of 
> a mother push you through the hoop!
>
> As far as I can see, American men have been totally emasculated- 
> they're like slaves! They die like flies from coronary thrombosis 
> while their women sit under hairdryers eating chocolates & arranging 
> for every 2nd Tuesday to be some sort of Mother's Day!
>
> And this positively infantile preoccupation with bosoms. In all time 
> in this wretched Godforsaken country, the one thing that has appalled 
> me most of all this this preposterous preoccupation with bosoms.
>
> Don't you realize they have become the dominant theme in American 
> culture: in literature, advertising and all fields of entertainment 
> and everything. I'll wager you anything you like that if American 
> women stopped wearing brassieres, your whole national economy would 
> collapse overnight."
>
> The two characters are in a car, maintaining this bizarre dialogue 
> while driving in the quest for a lost booty. Curiously in a previous 
> scene there is another amazing dialogue about all the possible 
> partitions of that booty among the different groups involved in the 
> quest. Watch it!
>
> Best wishes,
>
> --Pedro
>
>
> El 16/02/2026 a las 11:21, Rainer Feistel (IOW) escribió:
>>
>> Dear Krassimir,
>>
>> Yes, thanks, I fully agree.
>>
>> It is evident that e.g. viruses inject their own genetic information into
>> the host cell which then starts producing more viruses ...
>>
>> Genetic information, I think, is the first form of symbolic 
>> information, so
>> that the origin of life is also the origin of symbols.
>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://doi.org/10.3390/sym16121611__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!QRIFw2SO6cw4NgEMMSCs__cE2AFdKKWlAJRmb_OxQAg7gpLYuqBpP6Gwe9mmPhm-vXcKHmN7iU9FFY9yS37Au-YpS4A$  
>> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://doi.org/10.3390/sym16121611__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!X718m_IsUTUPwzkksIp2P-qufhu6Y2ekUobXTt2dAG9yd4DvwJ2-H1uS-e8vs3XjNuUi6RlGTDVqIYC7t-01kz2dqqU$>
>>
>> Rainer
>>
>> Am 15.02.2026 um 23:19 schrieb Krassimir Markov:
>>> Dear Rainer,
>>> Your ideas that you have been working on lately are interesting and 
>>> could find wider support among specialists.
>>> For me, as a specialist in the field of information studies, this is 
>>> another good example of information interaction.
>>> It should be specially noted that verbal information interaction is 
>>> a small part of all possible ones and is only between people.
>>> However, in nature, forms of information interaction are diverse and 
>>> occur at all levels of living matter - starting from the lowest, 
>>> perhaps cells (I have no examples of a lower level!) and continuing 
>>> to the social level between people.
>>> With respect,
>>> Krassimir
>>>
>>>
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Dr. rer. nat. habil. Rainer Feistel
Physicist (emeritus)
PS Gustav Hertz Prize, Berlin 1981
CITAC Best Paper Award, Paris 2011
IAPWS Honorary Fellow, London 2013
BIPM Metrologia Highlight Articles, Paris 2016
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