<div dir="ltr">Here I indicate my understanding of Pedro's statements on information<div>STAN<br><div><br></div><div>







<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">10 PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION SCIENCE</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p2">1. Information is information, neither matter nor energy.<br><span class="gmail-s1"></span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">           S: I have information as a perceptible result of interaction, which may be embodied in matter and/or energy</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">Information is comprehended into structures, patterns, messages, or flows.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">           S: Agreed</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">3. Information can be recognized, can be measured, and can be  processed</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">(either computationally or non-computationally).</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">           S: If an interaction has an effect, that effect can be converted to other embodiments, resulting in informing</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">4. Information flows are essential organizers of life's self-production</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">processes--anticipating, shaping, and mixing up with the accompanying</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">energy flows.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">           S: Life, as an information-guided local process-embodiment, transforms other forms by extracting usable energy and materials from them.</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">5. Communication/information exchanges among adaptive life-cycles underlie</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">the complexity of biological organizations at all scales.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">          S: Information, as such, has no scale restriction. However, informed processes in living systems proceed independently at many scales.  </span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">6. It is symbolic language what conveys the essential communication</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">exchanges of the human species--and constitutes the core of its "social</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">nature."</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">          S: Informing has been constructed as a basic tool among humans.</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">7. Human information may be systematically converted into efficient</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">knowledge, by following the "knowledge instinct" and further up by</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">applying rigorous methodologies.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">          S: Among humans information is used to construct and effect technologies.</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">8. Human cognitive limitations on knowledge accumulation are partially</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">overcome via the social organization of "knowledge ecologies."</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">          S: Humans have methods for sharing information.</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">9. Knowledge circulates and recombines socially, in a continuous</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">actualization that involves "creative destruction" of fields and</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">disciplines: the intellectual Ars Magna.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">          S: Methods of sharing information among humans have become developed as discourses</span></p>
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<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">10. Information science proposes a new, radical vision on the information</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">and knowledge flows that support individual lives, with profound</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">consequences for scientific-philosophical practice and for social</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">governance.</span></p>
<p class="gmail-p1"><span class="gmail-s1">           S: Information Science proposes to embody a special understanding of informational transactions as an acknowledged discourse.</span></p></div></div></div>