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<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">Dai --</span></p><p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">{phenomenon 1}</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2">{phenomenon 2}   -->  {Phenomena 1 & 2} ---> {phenomena 1.2,3}<br><span class="gmail-s1"></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2">{phenomenon 3}<br><span class="gmail-s1"></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2">The process from left to right is generalization.<br><span class="gmail-s1"></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2">‘Information’ IS a generalization.</p><p class="gmail-p2">generalities form the substance of philosophy. Info happens to a case</p><p class="gmail-p2">     of generalization which can be mathematized, which in turn allows</p><p class="gmail-p2">     it to be generalized even more.</p>
<p class="gmail-p2">So, what’s the problem?<br><span class="gmail-s1"></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2">STAN<br><span class="gmail-s1"></span></p></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 7:44 AM, Dai Griffiths <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dai.griffiths.1@gmail.com" target="_blank">dai.griffiths.1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <p>>  Information is not “something out there” which “exists”
      otherwise than as our construct.</p>
    <p>I agree with this. And I wonder to what extent our problems in
      discussing information come from our desire to shoe-horn many
      different phenomena into the same construct. It would be possible
      to disaggregate the construct. It be possible to discuss the
      topics which we address on this list without using the word
      'information'. We could discuss redundancy, variety, constraint,
      meaning, structural coupling, coordination, expectation, language,
      etc.</p>
    <p>In what ways would our explanations be weakened?<br>
    </p>
    <p>In what ways might we gain in clarity?
    </p>
    <p>If we were to go down this road, we would face the danger that
      our discussions might become (even more) remote from everyday
      human experience. But many scientific discussions are remote from
      everyday human experience.<br>
    </p>
    <p>Dai<br>
    </p>
    <div class="m_3098479109588466821moz-cite-prefix">On 20/12/16 08:26, Loet Leydesdorff
      wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a">Dear
            colleagues, <u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a">A
            distribution contains uncertainty that can be measured in
            terms of bits of information.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a">Alternatively:
            the expected information content <i>H </i>of a probability
            distribution </span><span><img id="m_3098479109588466821_x0000_i1025" src="cid:part1.72562E78.5FDB244D@gmail.com" height="27" width="46"></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a">is
          </span><span><img id="m_3098479109588466821_x0000_i1025" src="cid:part2.590C9115.F8FA7624@gmail.com" height="31" width="153"></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a">.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a">H</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a">
            is further defined as probabilistic entropy using Gibb’s
            formulation of the entropy </span><span><img id="m_3098479109588466821_x0000_i1025" src="cid:part3.880C0C61.BF958639@gmail.com" height="27" width="90"></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a">.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a">This
            definition of information is an operational definition. In
            my opinion, we do not need an essentialistic definition by
            answering the question of “what is information?” As the
            discussion on this list demonstrates, one does not easily
            agree on an essential answer; one can answer the question
            “how is information defined?” Information is not “something
            out there” which “exists” otherwise than as our construct.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a">Using
            essentialistic definitions, the discussion tends not to move
            forward. For example, Stuart Kauffman’s and Bob Logan’s
            (2007) definition of information “as natural selection
            assembling the very constraints on the release of energy
            that then constitutes work and the propagation of
            organization.” I asked several times what this means and how
            one can measure this information. Hitherto, I only obtained
            the answer that colleagues who disagree with me will be
            cited. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#44546a">J</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a">
            Another answer was that “counting” may lead to populism. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#44546a">J</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a">
            <u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a">Best,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a">Loet<u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Loet
            Leydesdorff </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Professor,
            University of Amsterdam<br>
            Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a"><a href="mailto:loet@leydesdorff.net" title="mailto:loet@leydesdorff.net" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"></span></a><a class="m_3098479109588466821moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:loet@leydesdorff.net" target="_blank">loet@leydesdorff.net</a> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">;
          </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a"><a href="http://www.leydesdorff.net/" title="http://www.leydesdorff.net/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"></span></a><a class="m_3098479109588466821moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.leydesdorff.net/" target="_blank">http://www.leydesdorff.net/</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">
            <br>
          </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Associate
            Faculty, </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a"><a href="http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">SPRU, </span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">University
            of Sussex; <u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Guest
            Professor </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a"><a href="http://www.zju.edu.cn/english/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Zhejiang Univ.</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">,
            Hangzhou; Visiting Professor, </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a"><a href="http://www.istic.ac.cn/Eng/brief_en.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">ISTIC, </span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Beijing;<u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Visiting
            Professor, </span><a name="m_3098479109588466821__GoBack"></a><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a"><a href="http://www.bbk.ac.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.0pt">Birkbeck</span></a></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">,
            University of London; <u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a"><a href="http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9.0pt"></span></a><a class="m_3098479109588466821moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en" target="_blank">http://scholar.google.com/<wbr>citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&<wbr>hl=en</a></span><u></u><u></u></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#44546a"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">
            Dick Stoute [<a class="m_3098479109588466821moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:dick.stoute@gmail.com" target="_blank">mailto:dick.stoute@gmail.com</a>] <br>
            <b>Sent:</b> Monday, December 19, 2016 12:48 PM<br>
            <b>To:</b> <a class="m_3098479109588466821moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:loet@leydesdorff.net" target="_blank">loet@leydesdorff.net</a><br>
            <b>Cc:</b> James Peters; <a class="m_3098479109588466821moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ulan@umces.edu" target="_blank">ulan@umces.edu</a>; Alex Hankey; FIS
            Webinar<br>
            <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Fis] What is information? and What is
            life?<u></u><u></u></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u> <u></u></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">List,<u></u><u></u></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u> <u></u></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">Please allow
              me to respond to Loet about the definition of information
              stated below.  <u></u><u></u></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u> <u></u></p>
          </div>
          <div>
            <p class="m_3098479109588466821gmail-m-7620727072806746849gmail-m-3869641630998968668msoplaintext" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">1.
                the definition of information as uncertainty is
                counter-intuitive ("bizarre"); (p. 27)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
            <p class="m_3098479109588466821gmail-m-7620727072806746849gmail-m-3869641630998968668msoplaintext" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> <u></u><u></u></span></p>
            <p class="m_3098479109588466821gmail-m-7620727072806746849gmail-m-3869641630998968668msoplaintext" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I
                agree.  I struggled with this definition for a long time
                before realising that Shannon was really discussing
                "amount of information" or the number of bits needed to
                convey a message.  He was looking for a formula that
                would provide an accurate estimate of the number of bits
                needed to convey a message and realised that the amount
                of information (number of bits) needed to convey a
                message was dependent on the "amount" of uncertainty
                that had to be eliminated and so he equated these.  <u></u><u></u></span></p>
            <p class="m_3098479109588466821gmail-m-7620727072806746849gmail-m-3869641630998968668msoplaintext" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
            <p class="m_3098479109588466821gmail-m-7620727072806746849gmail-m-3869641630998968668msoplaintext" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">It
                makes sense to do this, but we must distinguish between
                "amount of information" and "information".  For example,
                we can measure amount of water in liters, but this does
                not tell us what water is and likewise the measure we
                use for "amount of information" does not tell us what
                information is. We can, for example equate the amount of
                water needed to fill a container with the volume of the
                container, but we should not think that water is
                therefore identical to an empty volume.  Similarly we
                should not think that information is identical to
                uncertainty.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
            <p class="m_3098479109588466821gmail-m-7620727072806746849gmail-m-3869641630998968668msoplaintext" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
            <p class="m_3098479109588466821gmail-m-7620727072806746849gmail-m-3869641630998968668msoplaintext" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">By
                equating the number of bits needed to convey a message
                with the "amount of uncertainty" that has to be
                eliminated Shannon, in effect, equated opposites so that
                he could get an estimate of the number of bits needed to
                eliminate the uncertainty.  We should not therefore
                consider that this equation establishes what information
                is. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
            <p class="m_3098479109588466821gmail-m-7620727072806746849gmail-m-3869641630998968668msoplaintext" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
            <p class="m_3098479109588466821gmail-m-7620727072806746849gmail-m-3869641630998968668msoplaintext" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Dick<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u> <u></u></p>
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          <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><u></u> <u></u></p>
          <div>
            <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in">On 18 December
              2016 at 15:05, Loet Leydesdorff <<a href="mailto:loet@leydesdorff.net" target="_blank"></a><a class="m_3098479109588466821moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:loet@leydesdorff.net" target="_blank">loet@leydesdorff.net</a>>
              wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
            <div>
              <div>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in">Dear James and colleagues, <u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in"> <u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in">Weaver (1949) made two major
                  remarks about his coauthor (Shannon)'s contribution:<u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in"> <u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in">1. the definition of
                  information as uncertainty is counter-intuitive
                  ("bizarre"); (p. 27)<u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in">2. "In particular,
                  information must not be confused with meaning." (p. 8)
                  <u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in"> <u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in">The definition of information
                  as relevant for a system of reference confuses
                  information with "meaningful information" and thus
                  sacrifices the surplus value of Shannon's
                  counter-intuitive definition.<u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in"> <u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:1.0in">information observer<u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in"> <u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:1.0in">that integrates interactive
                  processes such as <u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in"> <u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:1.0in">physical interactions such
                  photons stimulating the retina of the eye,
                  human-machine interactions (this is the level that
                  Shannon lives on), biological interaction such body
                  temperature relative to touch ice or heat source,
                  social interaction such as this forum started by
                  Pedro, economic interaction such as the stock market,
                  ... [Lerner, page 1].<u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black"> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">We
                    are in need of a theory of meaning. Otherwise, one
                    cannot measure meaningful information. In a previous
                    series of communications we discussed redundancy
                    from this perspective.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in"> <u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:1.0in">Lerner introduces
                  mathematical expectation E[Sap] (difference between of
                  a priory entropy [sic] and a posteriori entropy),
                  which is distinguished from the notion of relative
                  information Iap (Learner, page 7).<u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black"> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><img id="m_3098479109588466821m_6893889769850668776_x005f_x0000_i1025" src="cid:part13.E6FCECCB.08833AEC@gmail.com" border="0" height="36" width="140"></span><span style="color:black">) expresses in bits of
                    information the information generated when the a
                    priori distribution </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><img id="m_3098479109588466821_x0000_i1026" src="cid:part14.D382C500.6E432DD1@gmail.com" border="0" height="27" width="46"></span><span style="color:black">is turned into the a posteriori
                    one </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><img id="m_3098479109588466821_x0000_i1027" src="cid:part15.BB1F184E.7197AF87@gmail.com" border="0" height="27" width="50"></span><span style="color:black">. This follows within the
                    Shannon framework without needing an observer. I use
                    this equation, for example, in my 1995-book <i>The
                      Challenge of Scientometrics</i> (Chapters 8 and
                    9), with a reference to Theil (1972). The relative
                    information is defined as the <i>H</i>/<i>H</i>(max).</span><u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black"> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">I
                    agree that the intuitive notion of information is
                    derived from the Latin “in-formare” (Varela, 1979).
                    But most of us do no longer use “force” and “mass”
                    in the intuitive (Aristotelian) sense. </span><span style="font-family:Wingdings;color:black">J</span><span style="color:black"> The proliferation of the
                    meanings of information if confused with “meaningful
                    information” is indicative for an “index sui et
                    falsi”, in my opinion. The repetitive discussion
                    lames the progression at this list. It is “like
                    asking whether a glass is half empty or half full”
                    (Hayles, 1990, p. 59). </span><u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in"> <u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:1.0in">This act of forming forming
                  an information process results in the construction of
                  an observer that is the owner [holder] of information.<u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in"> <u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in">The system of reference is
                  then no longer the message, but the observer who
                  provides meaning to the information (uncertainty). I
                  agree that this is a selection process, but the
                  variation first has to be specified independently
                  (before it can be selected.<u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black"> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:1.0in">And Lerner introduces the
                  threshold between objective and subjective observes
                  (page 27).   This leads to a consideration selection
                  and cooperation that includes entanglement.<u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black"> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">I
                    don’t see a direct relation between information and
                    entanglement. An observer can be entangled.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black"> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">Best,
                  </span><u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">Loet</span><u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black"> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
                <p class="m_3098479109588466821m6893889769850668776msoplaintext" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="color:black">PS.
                    Pedro: Let me assume that this is my second posting
                    in the week which ends tonight. L.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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