<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px">Dear Colleagues,</span><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px">Re Pedro's point and other related postings . . . <div><br></div><div>> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">I would never bet for a new info-reductionism, or explanatory monism, science is an elegant Babel construction always condemned --or enjoying-- the plurality of disciplinary languages and views.<</span></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">I echo the "questions" around communication and information at different levels, and BETWEEN different systems/levels – this further takes me back to a point I raised at the end of Deacon's last (second) session, but that was not really addressed. This has to do with the</span> nature of emergent things BETWEEN systems (or levels of analysis). This proved (in his sessions) to be a rather chronic issue in trying to grasp/convey Deacon's modeling – or now, even in modeling an effective FIS(?). The Deacon session didn't really seem to "land" anywhere (re Pedro's "condemned/enjoyed Babel") . . . and here we are again, no?</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">So I am now left to wonder if "we" are to accept the futility of modeling emergent things (which seems to be a critical deeper issue), that might otherwise offer a "bridge" between systems/levels, or if that imagined/impossible(?) "</font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap">new info-reductionism, or explanatory monism" is to be actively attempted and explored here? As a new member, I simply wish to know what might be reasonably tolerated.</span></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Thanks to all for your earlier</span> thoughts!<br></font><div><div dir="ltr"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-size:14px;font-family:proxima-nova-1,proxima-nova-2,Tahoma,Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;border-spacing:0px;color:rgb(51,51,51);line-height:18px"><tbody style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><td style="font-family:inherit;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:0px;vertical-align:baseline;width:auto;height:30px"> </td></tr><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><td style="font-family:inherit;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;width:auto"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:0"><a href="http://about.me/marcus.abundis?promo=email_sig" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(43,130,173);margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none;display:inline-block"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;border-spacing:0px"><tbody style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><td align="left" valign="top" style="font-family:inherit;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;vertical-align:top;width:auto;line-height:1"><img alt="--" width="0" height="0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; width: 0px; min-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"><span class=""><font color="#888888"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-weight:bold;font-style:inherit;font-size:18px;font-family:proxima-nova-1,Proxima-Nova,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;line-height:1;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Marcus Abundis</div><div style="margin:3px 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-size:12px;font-family:proxima-nova-1,Proxima-Nova,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline"><img alt="http://" width="0" height="0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: block; width: 0px; min-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">about.me/marcus.abundis</div></font></span></td></tr><tr style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-f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