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      #000000;font-size: 10pt;"><big>Dear FIS Colleagues, </big>
      <div><big><br>
        </big></div>
      <big> </big>
      <div><big>I am attaching herein Soeren's presentation. If you have
          any trouble with the attachment, the file is in fis web pages
          too:<br>
          <br>
          <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
            href="http://fis.sciforum.net/fis-discussion-sessions/">http://fis.sciforum.net/fis-discussion-sessions/</a><br>
          <br>
          By clicking on Soeren Brier's session (highlighted in red) you
          can immediately obtain it.<br>
          <br>
          Nevertheless, below there is a selection of more general ideas
          from the paper. For those interested in FIS "archeology",
          Soeren presented in January 2004 a discussion session </big><big>on
          Information, Autopoiesis, Life and Semiosis. It  can be found
          by scrolling in the same above link.<br>
          <br>
          Best greetings</big><big><big><big><small><small>--Pedro</small></small><br>
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                  lang="EN-US">Søren Brier,
                  CBS<u1:p></u1:p></span><span
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                  Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-font-weight:
                  bold" lang="EN-US">This discussion aims at
                  contributing to the definition of a universal
                  concept of information covering objective as well as
                  subjective experiential
                  and intersubjective meaningful cognition and
                  communication argued in more
                  length in Brier (2015a). My take on the problem is
                  that information is not
                  primarily a technological term but a phenomenon that
                  emerges from
                  intersubjective meaningful sign based cognition and
                  communication in living
                  systems. The purpose of this discussion is to discuss
                  a possible philosophical
                  framework for an integral and more adequate concept of
                  information uniting all
                  isolated disciplines (Brier, 2010, 2011, 2013a+b+c). <u1:p></u1:p></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
                  lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-font-weight:
                  bold" lang="EN-US">The attempts to create <i
                    style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">objective
                    concepts</i> of information were good for technology
                  (Brilliouin 1962) and the
                  development of AI, but not able to develop theories
                  that could include the <i
                    style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">experiential (<b>subjective</b>)
                    aspect</i>
                  of informing that leads to meaning in the social
                  setting (Brier 2015b). The
                  statistical concept of <st1:place w:st="on">Shannon</st1:place>
                  (Shannon and
                  Weaver 1963/1948) is the most famous objective concept
                  but it was only a
                  technical invention based on a mathematical concept of
                  entropy, but never
                  intended to encompass meaning.<span
                    style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>Norbert
                  Wiener (<i>1963) </i>combined the mathematics
                  statistical with Boltzmann’s
                  thermodynamically entropy concept and defined
                  information as neg-entropy.
                  Wiener then saw the statistical information’s entropy
                  as a representation for
                  mind and the thermodynamically entropy as representing
                  matter. So he thought he
                  had solved the mind matter problem through his and
                  Schrödinger’s (1944/2012)
                  definition of information as neg-entropy. The idea was
                  developed further into
                  an evolutionary and ecological framework by Gregory
                  Bateson (1972, 1979, 19827)
                  resulting in an ecological cybernetic concept of mind
                  as self-organized
                  differences that made a difference for a
                  cybernetically conceptualized mind
                  (Brier 2008b). But this concepts that could not
                  encompass meaning and
                  experience of embodied living and social systems
                  (Brier 2008a, 2010, 2011). <u1:p></u1:p></span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
                  lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"
                style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;
                text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DA;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"
                  lang="EN-US">My main point is that from the present
                  material,
                  energetic or informational ontologies worldview we do
                  not have any idea of how
                  life, feeling, awareness and qualia could emerge from
                  that foundation. <u1:p></u1:p></span><span
                  style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
                  lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-font-weight:
                  bold" lang="EN-US">Ever since Russell and Whitehead’s
                  attempt in Principia Mathematica to
                  make a unified mathematical language for all sciences
                  and logical positivism
                  failed (Carnap, 1967 & </span><span
                  style="font-size:11.0pt;
                  font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
                  lang="EN-US">Cartwright et.al. 1996),<span
                    style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"> the strongest
                    paradigm attempting in a new
                    unification is now the info-computational formalism
                    based on the mathematic
                    calculus developed by Gregory Chaitin (2006 and
                    2007) <s>)</s>. The paradigm is
                    only in its early beginning and is looking for a
                    concept of natural computing (</span>Dodig-Crnkovic,
                  <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">2012) going
                    beyond the Turing concept
                    of computing. </span></span><span
                  style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
                  Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"
                  lang="EN">But even that still does
                  not encompass the experiential feeling mind and the
                  meaning orienting aspect of
                  intersubjective communication wither be only sign or
                  also language based.</span><span
                  style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;
                  mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" lang="EN"> </span><span
                  style="font-size:11.0pt;
                  font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
                  lang="EN-GB"><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-font-weight:
                  bold" lang="EN-US">So far there is no conclusive
                  evidence to make us believe that the core
                  of reality across nature, culture, life and mind is
                  purely absolute
                  mathematical law as Penrose (2004) seems to suggest or
                  purely computational.</span><span
                  style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;
                  mso-fareast-language:DA;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"
                  lang="EN-US"> Meaning is a way of making
                  ‘sense’ of things for the individual in the world
                  perceived. It is a
                  non-mathematical existential feeling aspect of life
                  related to reflection past,
                  present and future of existence in the surrounding
                  environment, in humans
                  enhanced by language, writings, pictures, music
                  through culture. In animals
                  cognition and communication are connected to survival,
                  procreation and
                  pleasure. In humans beings cognition develops into
                  consciousness through
                  subjective experiential and meaning based (self-)
                  reflection of the
                  individual’s role in the external world and becomes an
                  existential aspect.</span><span
                  style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;
                  mso-bidi-font-style:italic" lang="EN-US"> </span><span
                  style="font-size:11.0pt;
                  font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
                  lang="EN-GB"><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-font-weight:
                  bold" lang="EN-US">My conclusion is therefore that a
                  broader foundation is needed in order
                  to understand the basis for information and
                  communication in living systems.
                  Therefore we need to include a phenomenological and
                  hermeneutical ground in
                  order to integrate a theory of interpretative/<i
                    style="mso-bidi-font-style:
                    normal">subjective</i> and intersubjective meaning
                  and signification with a
                  theory of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">objective</i>
                  information,
                  which has a physical grounding </span><span
                  style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"
                  lang="EN-GB">(see for
                  instance Plamen, Rosen & Gare 2015)</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"
                  lang="EN-US">. </span><span
                  style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
                  mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">Thus the
                  question is how c</span><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"
                  lang="EN-GB">an we establish an alternative
                  transdisciplinary model of the sciences
                  and the humanities to the logical positivist
                  reductionism on one hand and to
                  postmodernist relativist constructivism on the other
                  in the form of a
                  transdisciplinary concept of Wissenschaft (i.e.
                  “knowledge creation”, implying
                  both subjectivism and objectivism)? The body and its
                  meaning-making processes
                  is a complex multidimensional object of research that
                  necessitates
                  trans-disciplinary theoretical approaches including
                  biological sciences,
                  primarily biosemiotics and bio-cybernetics, cognition
                  and communication
                  sciences, phenomenology, hermeneutics, philosophy of
                  science and philosophical
                  theology </span><span
                  style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
                  mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">(Harney 2015<span
                    style="mso-bidi-font-style:italic">,
                  </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">Davies
                    & Gregersen 2009</span>).</span><span
                  style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
                  lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
              <p style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-font-weight:
                  bold" lang="EN-GB">Peirce develops his pragmaticism as
                  a way to unite empirical research,
                  meaning and experience. His ontology is not only
                  materialistic science but does
                  also include meaning through embodied interaction
                  through <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
                    normal">experiential living</i> bodies and thereby
                  the social as well as the
                  subjective forms of cognition, meaning and
                  interpretation. Thereby he goes
                  further than Popper’s (1978) view of the three worlds.
                  Communication is not
                  only a world of objective knowledge but is
                  intersubjective meaningful
                  information. Peirce’s idea of ‘the world’ is much
                  bigger than what science
                  considers being ‘the world’... </span><span
                  style="font-size:11.0pt;
                  font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB"
                  lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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