<div><div>Dear FISers, </div><div>I'm sorry for bothering you, </div><div>but I start not to agree from the very first principles.</div><div><br></div><div>The only language able to describe and quantify scientific issues is mathematics.</div><div>Without math, you do not have observables, and information is observable. </div><div>Therefore, information IS energy or matter, and can be examined through entropies (such as., e.g., the Bekenstein-Hawking one).</div><div><br></div><div>And, please, colleagues, do not start to write that information is subjective and it depends on the observer's mind. This issue has been already tackled by the math of physics: science already predicts that information can be "subjective", in the MATHEMATICAL frameworks of both relativity and quantum dynamics' Copenhagen interpretation. </div><div>Therefore, the subjectivity of information is clearly framed in a TOTALLY physical context of matter and energy. </div><div><br></div><div>Sorry for my polemic ideas, but, if you continue to define information on the basis of qualitative (and not quantitative) science, information becomes metaphysics, or sociology, or psychology (i.e., branches with doubtful possibility of achieving knowledge, due to their current lack of math).</div><div> <br></div><br><p class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst" style="margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0cm;
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Da: "Pedro C. Marijuan" <pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es><br>
Data: 15/09/2017 14.13<br>
A: "fis"<fis@listas.unizar.es><br>
Ogg: [Fis] PRINCIPLES OF IS<br>
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Dear FIS Colleagues,<br>
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As promised herewith the "10 principles of information science". A
couple of previous comments may be in order. <br>
First, what is in general the role of principles in science? I was
motivated by the unfinished work of philosopher Ortega y Gasset,
"The idea of principle in Leibniz and the evolution of deductive
theory" (posthumously published in 1958). Our tentative information
science seems to be very different from other sciences, rather
multifarious in appearance and concepts, and cavalierly moving from
scale to scale. What could be the specific role of principles
herein? Rather than opening homogeneous realms for conceptual
development, these information principles would appear as a sort of
"portals" that connect with essential topics of other disciplines in
the different organization layers, but at the same time they should
try to be consistent with each other and provide a coherent vision
of the information world.<br>
And second, about organizing the present discussion, I bet I was too
optimistic with the commentators scheme. In any case, for having a
first glance on the whole scheme, the opinions of philosophers would
be very interesting. In order to warm up the discussion, may I ask
John Collier, Joseph Brenner and Rafael Capurro to send some initial
comments / criticisms? Later on, if the commentators idea flies,
Koichiro Matsuno and Wolfgang Hofkirchner would be very valuable
voices to put a perspectival end to this info principles discussion
(both attended the Madrid bygone FIS 1994 conference)... <br>
But this is FIS list, unpredictable in between the frozen states and
the chaotic states! So, everybody is invited to get ahead at his
own, with the only customary limitation of two messages per week.<br>
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Best wishes, have a good weekend --Pedro<br>
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<p align="center"><font size="+2"><b>10 </b></font><font size="+2"><b>PRINCIPLES
OF INFORMATION SCIENCE</b></font></p>
<p>1. Information is information, neither matter nor energy.</p>
<p>2. Information is comprehended into structures, patterns,
messages, or flows.</p>
<p>3. Information can be recognized, can be measured, and can be
processed (either computationally or non-computationally).</p>
<p>4. Information flows are essential organizers of life's
self-production processes--anticipating, shaping, and mixing up
with the accompanying energy flows.</p>
<p>5. Communication/information exchanges among adaptive life-cycles
underlie the complexity of biological organizations at all scales.</p>
<p>6. It is symbolic language what conveys the essential
communication exchanges of the human species--and constitutes the
core of its "social nature." </p>
<p>7. Human information may be systematically converted into
efficient knowledge, by following the "knowledge instinct" and
further up by applying rigorous methodologies.</p>
<p>8. Human cognitive limitations on knowledge accumulation are
partially overcome via the social organization of "knowledge
ecologies." <br>
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<p>9. Knowledge circulates and recombines socially, in a continuous
actualization that involves "creative destruction" of fields and
disciplines: the intellectual <i>Ars Magna.</i> <br>
</p>
<p>10. Information science proposes a new, radical vision on the
information and knowledge flows that support individual lives,
with profound consequences for scientific-philosophical practice
and for social governance. <br>
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Pedro C. Marijuán
Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group
Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud
Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Aragón (CIBA)
Avda. San Juan Bosco, 13, planta 0
50009 Zaragoza, Spain
Tfno. +34 976 71 3526 (& 6818)
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