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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>PS. You can see the table in html. L.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Dear Joe, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>As tragic events repeatedly show, their origin is often not the lack of information in the simple sense, but the lack of structures (or structurations) in people capable of implementing it. These structures or capacities are also information in the complex sense, of course, but they also can be considered as a form of intelligence. <span style='color:#44546A'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>One can consider the network of relations among intelligent agents from this perspective. The network can be written as a matrix or a two-dimensional probability distribution that contains uncertainty (expressable, for example, in bits of information). In order to retain information, the networks have to endure over time and thus one obtains a three-dimensional array of information of networks stacked (with time subscripts). In order to act “intelligently”, the networks have to be able to restructure themselves in the present using one more degree of freedom </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#44546A'>à</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'> four-dimensional probability distribution.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Within this array in four dimensions, one can distinguish between trajectories, regimes, Markov chains, evolutionary changes, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=1138 style='width:8.75in;border-collapse:collapse'><tr style='height:29.05pt'><td width=211 valign=top style='width:117.0pt;border-top:1.5pt;border-left:1.5pt;border-bottom:1.0pt;border-right:1.0pt;border-color:black;border-style:solid;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:29.05pt'></td><td width=235 valign=top style='width:130.0pt;border-top:solid black 1.5pt;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:29.05pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=FR style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>first</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=FR style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>dimension</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=218 valign=top style='width:121.0pt;border-top:solid black 1.5pt;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:29.05pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=FR style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>second <br>dimension</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=237 valign=top style='width:131.0pt;border-top:solid black 1.5pt;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:29.05pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>third</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>dimension</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=237 valign=top style='width:131.0pt;border-top:solid black 1.5pt;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;border-right:solid black 1.5pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:29.05pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>fourth <br>dimension</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:36.75pt'><td width=211 valign=top style='width:117.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:solid black 1.5pt;border-bottom:none;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:36.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Operation</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=235 valign=top style='width:130.0pt;border:none;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:36.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>variation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=218 valign=top style='width:121.0pt;border:none;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:36.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>selection<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=237 valign=top style='width:131.0pt;border:none;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:36.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>stabilization, retention<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=237 valign=top style='width:131.0pt;border:none;border-right:solid black 1.5pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:36.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>globalization and self-organization<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:27.65pt'><td width=211 valign=top style='width:117.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:solid black 1.5pt;border-bottom:none;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:27.65pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Nature</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=235 valign=top style='width:130.0pt;border:none;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:27.65pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>entropy; disturbance<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=218 valign=top style='width:121.0pt;border:none;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:27.65pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>extension; network<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=237 valign=top style='width:131.0pt;border:none;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:27.65pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>localized trajectory<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=237 valign=top style='width:131.0pt;border:none;border-right:solid black 1.5pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:27.65pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>identity or regime<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:36.75pt'><td width=211 valign=top style='width:117.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:solid black 1.5pt;border-bottom:none;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:36.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Character of operation</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=235 valign=top style='width:130.0pt;border:none;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:36.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>probabilistic; uncertain<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=218 valign=top style='width:121.0pt;border:none;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:36.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>deterministic; structural<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=237 valign=top style='width:131.0pt;border:none;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:36.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>reflexive; reconstructive<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=237 valign=top style='width:131.0pt;border:none;border-right:solid black 1.5pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:36.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>globally organized; resilient<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:32.75pt'><td width=211 valign=top style='width:117.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:solid black 1.5pt;border-bottom:none;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:32.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Appearance</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=235 valign=top style='width:130.0pt;border:none;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:32.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>instantaneous and volatile<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=218 valign=top style='width:121.0pt;border:none;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:32.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>spatial;<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>multi-variate<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=237 valign=top style='width:131.0pt;border:none;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:32.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>historically contingent<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=237 valign=top style='width:131.0pt;border:none;border-right:solid black 1.5pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:32.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>emerging <br>hyper-cycle<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:36.75pt'><td width=211 valign=top style='width:117.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:solid black 1.5pt;border-bottom:none;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:36.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Unit of analysis</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=235 valign=top style='width:130.0pt;border:none;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:36.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>change in terms of relations<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=218 valign=top style='width:121.0pt;border:none;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:36.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>latent<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>positions<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=237 valign=top style='width:131.0pt;border:none;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:36.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>stabilities during history<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=237 valign=top style='width:131.0pt;border:none;border-right:solid black 1.5pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:36.75pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>virtual expectations<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:30.6pt'><td width=211 valign=top style='width:117.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:solid black 1.5pt;border-bottom:solid black 1.5pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:30.6pt'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Type of analysis</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=235 valign=top style='width:130.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.5pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:30.6pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>descriptive registration<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=218 valign=top style='width:121.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.5pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:30.6pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>multi-variate analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=237 valign=top style='width:131.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.5pt;border-right:solid black 1.0pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:30.6pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>time-series analysis<o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=237 valign=top style='width:131.0pt;border-top:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.5pt;border-right:solid black 1.5pt;padding:.75pt 5.15pt 0in 5.15pt;height:30.6pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>non-linear dynamics<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Source: <a name="_ENREF_1">Leydesdorff, L. (2001). <i>A Sociological Theory of Communication: The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-Based Society</i>. Parkland, FL: Universal Publishers; at </a><a href="http://www.universal-publishers.com/book.php?method=ISBN&book=1581126956">http://www.universal-publishers.com/book.php?method=ISBN&book=1581126956</a>; p. 99.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Best, <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'>Loet<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546A'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>I believe more attention should be paid explicitly to such structures to enable people to recognize and use them against the inevitable forces opposing that (keeping to a schedule, not 'frightening' people, <i>etc.</i>) Calling responsible behavior intelligent might facilitate the exercise of it.<br><br>Best regards,<br><br>Joseph <i><br><br><br></i> <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>