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<td>Re: [Fis] PRINCIPLES OF IS</td>
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<td>Tue, 19 Sep 2017 09:21:51 +0200</td>
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<td>Rafael Capurro <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rafael@capurro.de"><rafael@capurro.de></a></td>
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<td>Pedro C. Marijuan <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es"><pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es></a></td>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Pedro,<br>
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a short comment to your intro to the 10 principles: I very much
agree with your views (following Ortega) that information
science can be conceived as a multifaceted or "multifarious"
network of concepts and theories dealing phenomena partly
related partly not (yet) related with each other for which we
need different languages/concepts and 'translations' and kinds
of calculations also with regard to their goals and 'utility'. <br>
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If this makes sense, then we should try to develop some kind of
'principles' or 'archai' in the Greek sense, i.e., of 'initial
forces' that give rise to possibilities of 'un-concealing'
different kinds of phenomena that we could not see when
disregarding other paths or by not entering through other
'portals' each portal announcing different kinds of what makes
sense or not when entering the path. <br>
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Sometimes it makes sense to go up and see the landscapes from
the top, knowing that this view(s) from the top also conceal a
lot of things on the bottom. It is easiear to understand these
'principles' if we have experience with walking in the mountains
(but also in other natural and artificial environments like a
forest, a desert, cities etc.). Maybe we could learn from such
experiences which kind of 'principles' are to be conssidered in
the 'methods' (hodos = path) of scientific research. <br>
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So, my suggestion is to invite our FIS colleagues to describe
phenomenologically their walking experiences and 'principles' in
different enviroments (mountains etc.) and try to 'translate'
(trans-late) them into the field of information science.<br>
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Best<br>
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Rafael<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>
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<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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Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group
Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud
Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Aragón (CIBA)
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Prof.em. Dr. Rafael Capurro
Hochschule der Medien (HdM), Stuttgart, Germany
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