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color=#222222 size=4>Caro Francesco,</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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class=hps><SPAN lang=IT
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color=#222222 size=4>Ho letto la tua lettera con grande attenzione e
comprensione. Io accettare completamente la sorveglianza, che l'informazione è
diversa in sistemi diversi. </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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color=#222222 size=4>Questo è esattamente l'essenza della teoria di riflessione,
che descrive i molti livelli di riflessione - fisici, chimici, meccanici,
biologici, psicologici, sociali ... </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><SPAN
class=hps><SPAN lang=IT
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 20pt; mso-ansi-language: it"><FONT
color=#222222 size=4>Quindi a volte c'è fraintendimento del concetto di
"riflessione". </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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class=hps><SPAN lang=IT
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color=#222222 size=4>Tutto apposto. </FONT></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN class=hps><SPAN
lang=IT
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 20pt; mso-ansi-language: it"><FONT
color=#222222 size=4>Pensiamo allo stesso modo.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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class=hps><SPAN lang=IT
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 20pt; mso-ansi-language: it"><FONT
color=#222222 size=4>Distinti saluti</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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class=hps><SPAN lang=IT
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color=#222222 size=4>Krassimir</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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class=hps><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 20pt"><FONT
color=#222222 size=4>Dear Francesco,</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 20pt"><FONT color=#222222><FONT
size=4><SPAN class=hps>I</SPAN> <SPAN class=hps>read your letter</SPAN> <SPAN
class=hps>with great care and</SPAN> <SPAN class=hps>understanding</SPAN>. <SPAN
class=hps>I</SPAN> <SPAN class=hps>accept</SPAN> <SPAN class=hps>fully</SPAN>
<SPAN class=hps>the</SPAN> <SPAN class=hps>surveillance</SPAN>, <SPAN
class=hps>that the information</SPAN> <SPAN class=hps>is different</SPAN> <SPAN
class=hps>in different systems</SPAN>. </FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 20pt"><FONT color=#222222><FONT
size=4><SPAN class=hps>This</SPAN> <SPAN class=hps>is</SPAN> <SPAN
class=hps>exactly</SPAN> <SPAN class=hps>the essence</SPAN> <SPAN class=hps>of
the theory</SPAN> <SPAN class=hps>of</SPAN> <SPAN class=hps>reflection</SPAN>,
<SPAN class=hps>which describes</SPAN> <SPAN class=hps>many levels</SPAN> <SPAN
class=hps>of</SPAN> <SPAN class=hps>reflection</SPAN> <SPAN class=hps>-</SPAN>
<SPAN class=hps>physical</SPAN>, <SPAN class=hps>chemical</SPAN>, <SPAN
class=hps>mechanical</SPAN>, <SPAN class=hps>biological, psychological</SPAN>,
<SPAN class=hps>social</SPAN> <SPAN class=hps>...</SPAN>
</FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 20pt"><FONT color=#222222><FONT
size=4><SPAN class=hps>So,</SPAN> <SPAN class=hps>sometimes there is</SPAN>
<SPAN class=hps>misunderstanding of the concept</SPAN> <SPAN class=hps>of</SPAN>
<SPAN class=hps>"</SPAN>reflection". </FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 20pt"><FONT color=#222222><FONT
size=4><SPAN class=hps>Alright.</SPAN> <SPAN class=hps>We think</SPAN> <SPAN
class=hps>the same way!</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; LINE-HEIGHT: 20pt"><FONT color=#222222><FONT
size=4><SPAN class=hps>With best regards</SPAN><BR><SPAN
class=hps>Krassimir</SPAN></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT
size=4>Dear Bob,</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT
size=4>Thank you for your remark and especially – for the book!</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT
size=4>It is very interesting. </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT
size=4>The answer of you remark is just in my answer to Francesco – in reality
there are many different kinds of reflection. </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT
size=4>Because of this we have many different kinds (types) of
information.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT
size=4>But the common is that the reflection became information only in the
consciousness of recipient and only in the context which is already stored in
his/her memory. </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT
size=4><STRONG><EM>In other words, the Information is a reflection for which the
recipient can recognize what the reflection reflects.</EM></STRONG></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 13pt"><FONT
size=4>Kind regards</FONT></P>
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size=4>Крассимир</FONT></P>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><FONT face=Calibri><FONT size=4><B>From:</B>
</FONT></FONT><A title=13francesco.rizzo@gmail.com
href="mailto:13francesco.rizzo@gmail.com"><FONT size=4 face=Calibri>Francesco
Rizzo</FONT></A><FONT size=4 face=Calibri> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><FONT size=4><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, February 02, 2016
5:20 PM</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><FONT size=4><B>To:</B> </FONT></FONT><A
title=markov@foibg.com href="mailto:markov@foibg.com"><FONT size=4
face=Calibri>Krassimir Markov</FONT></A><FONT size=4 face=Calibri> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><FONT size=4><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Fis] _ Re: _ Closing
lecture</FONT></FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT size=4>Caro Krassimir, </FONT>
<DIV><FONT size=4>come ho scritto altre volte l'informazione ha un solo
contenuto-dare o prendere forma- che può essere oggetto di definizioni
diverse:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>- in termodinamica questa forma consiste del gradiente termico
o differenza tra molecole calde e veloci da un lato e fredde e lente dall'altro
lato;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>- in matematica o cibernetica corrisponde al numero delle
alternative possibili, misurabili in bit di entropia: quello che in
termodinamica è dis-informazione (entropia), in matematica è
informazione;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>- nella teoria della comunicazione è improbabilità o
incertezza: la ricchezza dell'informazione matematica si riduce quando si
sovrappone su di essa un s-codice per avere una significato
semantico;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>- in biologia è la sequela DNA-RNA-proteine che consente la
comunicazione dell'informazione genetica;</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>-in economia il contenuto-informazione conferisce il valore ai
beni o servizi: da qui la forma del valore o il valore della forma;
etc.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Il discorso potrebbe continuare chiamando in causa la logica
"fuzzy", ma non credo che sia il caso.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Una cosa è certa: l'informazione, comunque definita, è
preceduta dalla significazione e seguita dalla comunicazione. La comunicazione,
non è una trasmissione di segnali, ma un dialogo di segni che implica il codice
di chi trasmette e il codice di chi riceve.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Sempre, con molta umiltà, un abbraccio.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Francesco.</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=gmail_quote><FONT size=4>2016-02-02 12:44 GMT+01:00 Krassimir Markov
<SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:markov@foibg.com"
target=_blank>markov@foibg.com</A>></SPAN>:<BR></FONT>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Dear Howard,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Thank you very much for your great effort and nice
explanation!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>I like it!</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Only what I needed to see is a concrete answer to the
question “what it the Information?”</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>You absolutely clearly described it and I totally agree with
your considerations.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Only what is needed is to conclude with a short
definition.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>I think it may be the next:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>The Information is a reflection which may be interpreted by
its receiver in the context the receiver has in his/her memory.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>From this definition many consequences follow. In future we
may discuss them.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Friendly regards</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Krassimir</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>PS:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Dear FIS Colleagues,<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>1. At the ITHEA web side, the conferences for year 2016 have
been announced.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>One of them is the XIV-th International Conference on
“General Information Theory”.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Please visit link:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><A title=http://www.ithea.org/conferences/conferences.html
href="http://www.ithea.org/conferences/conferences.html" target=_blank><FONT
size=4>http://www.ithea.org/conferences/conferences.html</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Welcome in Varna, Bulgaria !</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>2. May be it will be interesting to read the paper,
published in our </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>International Journal “Information Theories and
Applications” ( </FONT><A title=http://www.foibg.com/ijita/
href="http://www.foibg.com/ijita/" target=_blank><FONT
size=4>http://www.foibg.com/ijita/</FONT></A><FONT size=4> ) :</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><A
title="Formal Theory of Semantic and Pragmatic Information - a Technocratic Approach Venco Bojilov"
href="http://www.foibg.com/ijita/vol22/ijita22-04-p05.pdf" target=_blank><FONT
size=4>Formal Theory of Semantic and Pragmatic Information - a Technocratic
Approach</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>by Venco Bojilov</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><A title=http://www.foibg.com/ijita/vol22/ijita22-04-p05.pdf
href="http://www.foibg.com/ijita/vol22/ijita22-04-p05.pdf" target=_blank><FONT
size=4>http://www.foibg.com/ijita/vol22/ijita22-04-p05.pdf</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Please send your remarks to the author to e-mail: </FONT><A
href="mailto:office@ithea.org" target=_blank><FONT
size=4>office@ithea.org</FONT></A><FONT size=4> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Krassimir</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><FONT size=4><B>From:</B> </FONT></FONT><A
title=HowlBloom@aol.com href="mailto:HowlBloom@aol.com" target=_blank><FONT
size=4 face=Calibri>HowlBloom@aol.com</FONT></A><FONT size=4 face=Calibri>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><FONT size=4><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, February 02, 2016
8:46 AM</FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><FONT size=4><B>To:</B> </FONT></FONT><A
title=pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es"
target=_blank><FONT size=4
face=Calibri>pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es</FONT></A><FONT size=4 face=Calibri>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><FONT size=4><B>Cc:</B> </FONT></FONT><A
title=fis@listas.unizar.es href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es"
target=_blank><FONT size=4 face=Calibri>fis@listas.unizar.es</FONT></A><FONT
size=4 face=Calibri> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><FONT size=4><B>Subject:</B> [Fis] _ Closing
lecture</FONT></FONT></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT size=4>First, a few
responses.<SPAN> </SPAN>I agree with Hans von Baeyer.<SPAN>
</SPAN>Pedro’s kindness is magic.<SPAN> </SPAN><U></U><U></U></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT size=4>I agree with
Gyorgy Darvas that quarks communicate.<U></U><U></U></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT size=4>I also agree with
Jerry Chandler.<SPAN> </SPAN>Brute force is not the major mover of
history.<SPAN> </SPAN>Values and virtues count.<SPAN> </SPAN>A
lot.<SPAN> </SPAN>In fact, a culture organizes itself by calling one way
of doing things evil—brute force—and another way of doing things a
value<SPAN> </SPAN>and a virtue.<SPAN> </SPAN>Our way is the value
and the virtue.<SPAN> </SPAN>The ways of others are brute force and
evil.<SPAN> </SPAN>We see cooperation<SPAN> </SPAN>and warmth
among us.<SPAN> </SPAN>But only enmity <SPAN> </SPAN>and
destruction among them.<SPAN> </SPAN><U></U><U></U></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT size=4>The<SPAN>
</SPAN>brute force is not <STRONG>within</STRONG> groups, where values,
virtues, and compassion prevail.<SPAN> </SPAN>It’s
<STRONG>between</STRONG> groups.<SPAN> </SPAN>It’s in the pecking order
battles between groups.<SPAN> </SPAN><U></U><U></U></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT size=4>Which means, in
answer to Marcus Abundis, yes, groups struggle for position in inter-group
hierarchies like chickens in a barnyard.<SPAN> </SPAN>For example,
America and China are vying right now for top position in the barnyard of
nations.<SPAN> </SPAN>Russia’s in that battle, too.<SPAN>
</SPAN>On a lower level, so are Saudi Arabia and Iran, whose proxy war in
Syria for pecking order dominance has cost a quarter of a million
lives.<SPAN> </SPAN>That’s brute force.<SPAN> </SPAN>Between
groups whose citizens are often lovely and loving to each other.
<SPAN> </SPAN>Whose citizens are proud of their values and
virtues.<U></U><U></U></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT size=4>Now for a final
statement.<U></U><U></U></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT size=4>Information
exists in a context.<SPAN> </SPAN>That’s not at all
surprising.<SPAN> </SPAN>Information is all about context.<SPAN>
</SPAN>As the writings of Guenther Witzany hint. <SPAN> </SPAN>And as
Ludwig Wittgenstein also suggested.<SPAN> </SPAN>Information is
relational.<SPAN> </SPAN>Information does not exist in a
vacuum.<SPAN> </SPAN>It connects participants.<SPAN> </SPAN>And it
makes things happen.<SPAN> </SPAN>When it’s not connecting participants,
it’s not information<U></U><U></U></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT size=4>FIS gets fired up
to a high energy level when discussing the definition of information and its
relationship to Shannon’s entropic information equation.<SPAN>
</SPAN>Alas, these discussions tend<SPAN> </SPAN>to remove the
context.<SPAN> </SPAN>And context is what gives information its
indispensable ingredient, meaning.<U></U><U></U></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT size=4>There are two
basic approaches in science:<SPAN> </SPAN><U></U><U></U></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><FONT face=Calibri><FONT size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: symbol"><SPAN>·<SPAN
style='FONT: 7pt "Times New Roman"'>
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>the abstract mathematical;
<U></U><U></U></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt 0.5in"><FONT face=Calibri><FONT size=4><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: symbol"><SPAN>·<SPAN
style='FONT: 7pt "Times New Roman"'>
</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN>and the observational empirical.<SPAN>
</SPAN><U></U><U></U></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT size=4>Mathematical
abstractionists dwell on definitions and equations.<SPAN>
</SPAN>Empirical observers gather facts.<SPAN> </SPAN>Darwin was an
observational empiricist. I’d like to see more of Darwin’s kind of science in
the world of information theory.<U></U><U></U></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT size=4>One of Darwin’s
most important contributions was not the concept of natural
selection.<SPAN> </SPAN>It was an approach that Darwin got from Kant and
from his grandfather Erasmus.<SPAN> </SPAN>That approach?<SPAN>
</SPAN>Lay out the history of the cosmos on a timeline and piece together its
story.<SPAN> </SPAN>In chronological order.<SPAN> </SPAN>Piece
together the saga of how this cosmos has created itself.<SPAN>
</SPAN>Including the self-motivated, self-creation of
life.<U></U><U></U></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT size=4>Communication
plays a vital role in this story.<SPAN> </SPAN>It appears in the first
10(-32) of a second of the cosmos’ existence, when quarks communicated using
attraction and repulsion cues.<SPAN> </SPAN>OK, it’s not quite right to
call the cues attraction and repulsion cues.<SPAN> </SPAN>When two
quarks sized each other up, they interpreted the signals of the strong force
differently.<SPAN> </SPAN>If you were a quark, another quark might size
you up and promptly speed away.<SPAN> </SPAN>But a quark of a different
variety might detect the same signals, find them wildly attractive, and speed
in your direction.<SPAN> </SPAN>One quark’s meat was another’s poison,
even in that first form of communication in the cosmos.<SPAN>
</SPAN><U></U><U></U></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT size=4>Information is
not a stand-alone.<SPAN> </SPAN>Again, it’s contextual.<SPAN>
</SPAN>It’s ruled by what Guenther Witzany calls syntax, semantics, and, most
important of all, pragmatics.<SPAN> </SPAN>Its meaning comes from where
it fits in a bigger picture.<U></U><U></U></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT size=4>Were the signals
quarks exchanged information?<SPAN> </SPAN>Not according to many of the
definitions in FIS.<SPAN> </SPAN>Some of those definitions say that to
be regarded as information, a sender must deliberately signify something
symbolically.<SPAN> </SPAN>She must, for example, want to warn you about
a poisoned apple.<SPAN> </SPAN>She must put that message in symbols,
like the words “poisoned apple,” then convey that signal to a
receiver.<SPAN> </SPAN>If she doesn’t want to see you poisoned, she
might text you, “watch out for poisoned apples.”<SPAN> </SPAN>I’m not
sure whether the definitions extant in FIS demand that you look at her text or
not.<SPAN> </SPAN>Much less whether you act on
it.<U></U><U></U></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT size=4>In my latest
book, <I>The God Problem: How A Godless Cosmos Creates</I>, I propose a
different definition of information.<SPAN> </SPAN>Information is
anything a receiver can decode, anything he can decipher.<SPAN>
</SPAN>How do you know a receiver has decoded a message?<SPAN>
</SPAN>Through the decoder’s actions.<SPAN> </SPAN>If you are a quark
and you detect my strong force, you either scoot away or you rush over and
join me.<SPAN> </SPAN>You act.<SPAN> </SPAN>If you are a
neurosurgeon looking at an mri, you make internal decisions, mental
decisions.<SPAN> </SPAN>You don’t move physically.<SPAN>
</SPAN>Not at first.<SPAN> </SPAN>But you move mentally.<SPAN>
</SPAN>You imagine your scalpel poised over a different spot than you might
have picked before seeing the mri.<SPAN>
</SPAN><U></U><U></U></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT size=4>Information is
anything a receiver can decode.<SPAN> </SPAN>So starlight reaching
planet earth 4.5 billion years ago, nearly half a billion years before the
appearance of the first life, was not information.<SPAN> </SPAN>There
was no one or no thing that interpreted it, translated it, or acted on
it.<SPAN> </SPAN>But starlight in the age of the Babylonians 2,600 years
ago was highly informational.<SPAN> </SPAN>Entire teams of scribes and
priests spent their lives observing it and interpreting it.
<SPAN> </SPAN>Many of their interpretations were detailed bullet points
of political and personal advice to the ruler.<SPAN> </SPAN>Was there
motion in response to starlight?<SPAN> </SPAN>You bet.<SPAN>
</SPAN>Starlight literally moved the troops and policies of
empires.<U></U><U></U></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT size=4>And today, when
there are tens of thousands of professional astronomers and millions of
amateurs with telescopes, all churning out data and emails<SPAN>
</SPAN>to each other, the amount of information in starlight has
skyrocketed.<SPAN> </SPAN>But, in fact, the actual starlight has not
increased.<SPAN> </SPAN>Not a bit.<SPAN> </SPAN>It’s the number of
interpreters that’s shot up.<SPAN> </SPAN>And with the interpreters,
something else has mushroomed: the information, the interpretation, and the
theories along with their supporting or opposing
“facts.”<U></U><U></U></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT size=4>The timeline of
communication from quarks to empires is crucial.<SPAN> </SPAN>It’s the
natural history we need to see the evolution of information.<SPAN>
</SPAN>No matter what we define information to be.<SPAN> </SPAN>The
timeline of the cosmos is context on the biggest scale.<SPAN> </SPAN>It
can make new meaning of facts we scarcely see.<SPAN> </SPAN>It can make
more phenomena we experience every day but do not see into, guess
what?<SPAN> </SPAN>Information.<U></U><U></U></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT size=4>That’s a timeline
I’m working on.<U></U><U></U></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT size=4>Thanks for having
me in your group.<SPAN> </SPAN>And thanks for giving me a chance to
share thoughts with you.<U></U><U></U></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>howard</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0><FONT size=4>____________<BR>Howard Bloom<BR>Author of:
<I>The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of
History</I> ("mesmerizing"-<I>The Washington Post</I>),<BR><I>Global Brain:
The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to the 21st Century</I>
("reassuring and sobering"-<I>The New Yorker)</I>,<BR><I>The Genius of the
Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism</I> ("A tremendously enjoyable book."
James Fallows, National Correspondent, <I>The Atlantic</I>),<BR><I>The God
Problem: How A Godless Cosmos Creates</I> ("Bloom's argument will rock your
world." Barbara Ehrenreich),<BR><I>How I Accidentally Started the Sixties</I>
("Wow! Whew! Wild!<BR>Wonderful!" Timothy Leary), and<BR><I>The Mohammed
Code</I> ("A terrifying book…the best book I've read on Islam." David
Swindle,<I> PJ Media</I>).<BR></FONT><A href="http://www.howardbloom.net"
target=_blank><FONT size=4>www.howardbloom.net</FONT></A><BR><FONT
size=4>Former Core Faculty Member, The Graduate Institute; Former Visiting
Scholar-Graduate Psychology Department, New York University.<BR>Founder:
International Paleopsychology Project; Founder, Space Development Steering
Committee; Founder: The Group Selection Squad; Founding Board Member: Epic of
Evolution Society; Founding Board Member, The Darwin Project; Founder: The Big
Bang Tango Media Lab; member: New York Academy of Sciences, American
Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Society,
Academy of Political Science, Human Behavior and Evolution Society,
International Society for Human Ethology, Scientific Advisory Board Member,
Lifeboat Foundation; Editorial Board Member, Journal of Space Philosophy;
Board member and member of Board of Governors, National Space
Society.</FONT></FONT><FONT lang=0 color=#000000><BR>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>In a message dated 2/1/2016 8:46:55 A.M. Eastern Standard
Time, </FONT><A href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" target=_blank><FONT
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style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=4>Thanks Howard.
Please, at your convenience send the concluding comments to the fis list.
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