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dir=ltr><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>Otto, an interesting call, for a theory that
brings together the brute force of an abiotic universe and
information.</FONT></P>
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dir=ltr><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>Here's a short timeline that pulls the
brute force elements together as informational exchange:</FONT></P>
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align=center><FONT size=2><FONT
face=Verdana> The evolution of
information, sociality, social structure, and the emergent properties of
societies<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
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align=center><FONT size=2><FONT face=Verdana>(all dates ABB, After the Big
Bang)<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><o:p><FONT size=2
face=Verdana> </FONT></o:p></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><FONT face=Verdana><FONT
size=2>10(-31) ABB<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT
size=2>primitive communication between quarks via the strong force.</FONT><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT size=2> </FONT></SPAN><FONT size=2>The
first informational language: </FONT><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=2>attraction and
repulsion</FONT></B><FONT size=2>.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNoSpacing
style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><FONT face=Verdana><FONT
size=2>10(-31) ABB the first social groups, threesomes of quarks, produce two
shocking <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">emergent
properties</B></FONT><FONT size=2>—protons and
neutrons<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><FONT face=Verdana><FONT
size=2>10,000 ABB massive social <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">dance</B></FONT><FONT size=2>s, pressure
waves, ring the cosmos like a gong.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT
size=2> </FONT></SPAN><FONT size=2>With, yes, </FONT><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT size=2>music</FONT></B><FONT
size=2>.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT size=2>
</FONT></SPAN><FONT size=2>What communicative force organizes trillions of
trillions of particles into pressure waves—into rhythmically coming together in
aggregations that span the universe?</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT
size=2> </FONT></SPAN><FONT size=2>Do information exchange and
communication choreograph pressure waves in which masses of particles
rhythmically separate just a tiny bit, then come together
again?<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><FONT face=Verdana><FONT
size=2>380,000 ABB<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT
size=2>emerging from a plasma, slowing down, and giving each other a bit of
breathing room, elementary particles use the electromagnetic force to
communicate.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT size=2>
</FONT></SPAN><FONT size=2>And they discover something odd.</FONT><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT size=2> </FONT></SPAN><FONT size=2>Tiny
particles have an inanimate longing.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT
size=2> </FONT></SPAN><FONT size=2>And their inanimate longing precisely
fits the inanimate longing of particles 1,800 times their size.</FONT><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT size=2> </FONT></SPAN><FONT size=2>The
tiny particles join with the hulking monsters.</FONT><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT size=2> </FONT></SPAN><FONT size=2>The
result?</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT size=2>
</FONT></SPAN><FONT size=2>Another emergent property, another supersized
surprise: </FONT><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT
size=2>atoms</FONT></B><FONT size=2>.</FONT><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT size=2> </FONT></SPAN><FONT
size=2>Hydrogen, helium, and lithium, properties wildly unpredictable from just
the properties of an electron and a proton. Properties that emerge from a
communicative exchange. An informational exchange between protons and
electrons.</FONT></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><FONT face=Verdana><FONT
size=2>380,000 ABB the atom reveals a basic of cosmic structure—<B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">hierarchy</B></FONT><FONT
size=2>.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT size=2>
</FONT></SPAN><FONT size=2>Protons dominate.</FONT><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT size=2> </FONT></SPAN><FONT size=2>They
determine where the team goes.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT
size=2> <SPAN
style='FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: "Verdana","sans-serif"; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA'><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Electrons subjugate themselves.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They meekly go along.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They subordinate.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They humbly circle the proton
nucleus.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><FONT face=Verdana><FONT
size=2>380,000 ABB atoms communicate via <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">gravity</B></FONT><FONT
size=2>.<o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><FONT face=Verdana><FONT
size=2>400,000 ABB more communication via gravity, but mass communication.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT size=2>The</FONT><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT size=2> </FONT></SPAN><FONT size=2>result?
</FONT><FONT size=2><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">Competition</B></FONT><FONT size=2>.
</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT size=2> </FONT></SPAN><FONT
size=2>The era of the great gravity crusades.</FONT><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT size=2> </FONT></SPAN><FONT size=2>Wisps,
plumes, and clots of atoms have showdowns, faceoffs in which the
bigger swallows the smaller whole.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT
size=2> </FONT></SPAN><FONT size=2>Then the winner goes off to another
showdown, another competitive confrontation.</FONT><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT size=2> </FONT></SPAN><FONT size=2>In
which it either eats or is eaten.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT
size=2> </FONT></SPAN><FONT size=2>The result of these showdowns between
gravity balls?</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT size=2>
</FONT></SPAN><FONT size=2>Galaxies, stars, planets, and moons.</FONT><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT size=2> </FONT></SPAN><FONT size=2>A
galaxy is, guess what, a social swirl organized in a hierarchy—black holes at
the center, stars circling the black holes, planets circling the stars, and
moons circling the planets.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT
size=2> </FONT></SPAN><FONT size=2>All via communication and
information.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT size=2>
</FONT></SPAN><FONT size=2>All via receivers interpreting the messages of
senders and acting on them.</FONT></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
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dir=ltr><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>one bottom line: communication,
information, music, competition, and hierarchy are not the products of
post-agricultural, post industrial, or post capitalist societies. they are
at work even in dead stuff. even pre-living nature.</FONT></P>
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dir=ltr><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>hope that helps.</FONT></P>
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dir=ltr><FONT size=2 face=Verdana>thanks again for letting me parade such
strange ideas in such august company.</FONT></P>
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dir=ltr>Dear all,<BR>Just a quick reply to Howard's fascinating account of
cosmic history.</P>
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dir=ltr>It seems what is crucially needed is a theory that brings together
"brute force" on the one hand - laws of nature "blindly" colliding and
colluding, from quarks to planets - and "information" on the other - from
pre-human codes (perhaps including quantum computation) and communication to
advanced human and cybernetic networks.</P>
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dir=ltr>The former seems to be able to do away with everything except a few
simple rules of operation (gravity, natural selection, will-to-power),
everything more complex being the unfolding of the interaction between these few
simple rules (eternal or emergent is beside the point here). The latter seems to
depend upon subjective interpretation, the retention of systems memory, symbolic
coding-decoding, and other processes that compose only a subset of the
(creatures and processes) of the universe. Never the twain shall meet.</P>
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dir=ltr>Or perhaps brute force can be analyzed as equivalent to information? Or
vice versa? Or as two sides of the same coin?</P>
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dir=ltr>Best,<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><BR>Otto
Lehto,<BR>Tampere, Finland</P>
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2 Feb 2016 13:46, "Krassimir Markov" <<A
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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
style="CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; COLOR: blue"
href="http://www.ithea.org/conferences/conferences.html" target=_blank><FONT
size=4></FONT></A><FONT size=4><A
style="CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; COLOR: blue"
href="http://www.ithea.org/conferences/conferences.html"
target=_blank>http://www.ithea.org/conferences/conferences.html</A></FONT></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” (<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></FONT><A
title=http://www.foibg.com/ijita/
style="CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; COLOR: blue"
href="http://www.foibg.com/ijita/" target=_blank><FONT size=4></FONT></A><FONT
size=4><A style="CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; COLOR: blue"
href="http://www.foibg.com/ijita/"
target=_blank>http://www.foibg.com/ijita/</A></FONT><FONT size=4><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>) :</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><A
title="Formal Theory of Semantic and Pragmatic Information - a Technocratic Approach Venco Bojilov"
style="CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; COLOR: blue"
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
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href="http://www.foibg.com/ijita/vol22/ijita22-04-p05.pdf"
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Please send your remarks to the author to e-mail:<SPAN
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Krassimir</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><FONT size=4><B>From:</B><SPAN
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><FONT size=4><B>Sent:</B><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>Tuesday, February 02, 2016 8:46
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri><FONT size=4><B>Subject:</B><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>[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 class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>I
agree with Hans von Baeyer.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </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
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>Brute force is not the major
mover of history.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>Values and virtues
count.<SPAN> <SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>A
lot.<SPAN> <SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </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
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>and a virtue.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>Our way is the value and the
virtue.<SPAN> <SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>The
ways of others are brute force and evil.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>We see
cooperation<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>and warmth among
us.<SPAN> <SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>But only
enmity<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><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
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>brute force is not<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><STRONG>within</STRONG><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>groups, where values, virtues, and
compassion prevail.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>It’s<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><STRONG>between</STRONG><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>groups.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </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
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>For example, America and China
are vying right now for top position in the barnyard of
nations.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>Russia’s in that battle,
too.<SPAN> <SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </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 class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>That’s
brute force.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>Between groups whose citizens
are often lovely and loving to each other.<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><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
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>That’s not at all
surprising.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>Information is all about
context.<SPAN> <SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>As
the writings of Guenther Witzany hint.<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN>And as Ludwig
Wittgenstein also suggested.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>Information is
relational.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>Information does not exist in
a vacuum.<SPAN> <SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>It
connects participants.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>And it makes things
happen.<SPAN> <SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </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
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>Alas, these discussions
tend<SPAN> <SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>to
remove the context.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </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'; font-stretch: normal"> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></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'; font-stretch: normal"> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></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
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>Empirical observers gather
facts.<SPAN> <SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </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 class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>It
was an approach that Darwin got from Kant and from his grandfather
Erasmus.<SPAN> <SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>That
approach?<SPAN> <SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>Lay
out the history of the cosmos on a timeline and piece together its
story.<SPAN> <SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>In
chronological order.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>Piece together the saga of how
this cosmos has created itself.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </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
class=Apple-converted-space> </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
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>OK, it’s not quite right to
call the cues attraction and repulsion cues.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>When two quarks sized each
other up, they interpreted the signals of the strong force
differently.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>If you were a quark, another
quark might size you up and promptly speed away.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </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
class=Apple-converted-space> </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
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>Again, it’s
contextual.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>It’s ruled by what Guenther
Witzany calls syntax, semantics, and, most important of all,
pragmatics.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </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
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>Not according to many of the
definitions in FIS.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>Some of those definitions say
that to be regarded as information, a sender must deliberately signify
something symbolically.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>She must, for example, want to
warn you about a poisoned apple.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>She must put that message in
symbols, like the words “poisoned apple,” then convey that signal to a
receiver.<SPAN> <SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>If
she doesn’t want to see you poisoned, she might text you, “watch out for
poisoned apples.”<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>I’m not sure whether the
definitions extant in FIS demand that you look at her text or
not.<SPAN> <SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </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,<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><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
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>How do you know a receiver has
decoded a message?<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>Through the decoder’s
actions.<SPAN> <SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </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
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>You act.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>If you are a neurosurgeon
looking at an mri, you make internal decisions, mental
decisions.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>You don’t move
physically.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>Not at first.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>But you move
mentally.<SPAN> <SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </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
class=Apple-converted-space> </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
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>There was no one or no thing
that interpreted it, translated it, or acted on it.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>But starlight in the age of
the Babylonians 2,600 years ago was highly informational.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>Entire teams of scribes and
priests spent their lives observing it and interpreting it.<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><SPAN> </SPAN>Many of their
interpretations were detailed bullet points of political and personal advice
to the ruler.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>Was there motion in response
to starlight?<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>You bet.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </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
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>to each other, the amount of
information in starlight has skyrocketed.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>But, in fact, the actual
starlight has not increased.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>Not a bit.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>It’s the number of
interpreters that’s shot up.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </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
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>It’s the natural history we
need to see the evolution of information.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>No matter what we define
information to be.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>The timeline of the cosmos is
context on the biggest scale.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>It can make new meaning of
facts we scarcely see.<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN></SPAN>It can make more phenomena we
experience every day but do not see into, guess what?<SPAN> <SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </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
class=Apple-converted-space> </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 size=4>____________<BR>Howard Bloom<BR>Author of:<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>The Lucifer Principle: A
Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History</I><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>("mesmerizing"-<I>The Washington
Post</I>),<BR><I>Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind From The Big Bang to
the 21st Century</I><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>("reassuring and sobering"-<I>The New
Yorker)</I>,<BR><I>The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re-Vision of
Capitalism</I><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>("A tremendously
enjoyable book." James Fallows, National Correspondent,<SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><I>The Atlantic</I>),<BR><I>The God
Problem: How A Godless Cosmos Creates</I><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>("Bloom's argument will rock your
world." Barbara Ehrenreich),<BR><I>How I Accidentally Started the
Sixties</I><SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>("Wow! Whew!
Wild!<BR>Wonderful!" Timothy Leary), and<BR><I>The Mohammed Code</I><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>("A terrifying book…the best book
I've read on Islam." David Swindle,<I><SPAN
class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN>PJ Media</I>).<BR><A
style="CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; COLOR: blue"
href="http://www.howardbloom.net/"
target=_blank>www.howardbloom.net</A><BR>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 lang=0 color=#000000><BR>
<DIV><FONT size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>In a message dated 2/1/2016 8:46:55 A.M. Eastern Standard
Time,<SPAN class=Apple-converted-space> </SPAN><A
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 10px; MARGIN-LEFT: 10px"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=4>Thanks Howard.
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PTSIZE="10">____________<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>www.howardbloom.net<BR>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
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