<div dir="auto">Dear Pedro,<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I have only one request to you, in regards to your principles:</div><div dir="auto">Please reformulate them in Alfred Korzybski's 'English Prime', better known as 'E-Prime'.¹</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I ask this as nearly all users of E-Prime have made one observation - consciously or not, an aspect perhaps best summarized by Robert Anton Wilson in his book 'Quantum Psychology'² - about it:</div><div dir="auto">It forces every statement written to become an operationally testable statement, provided one maps each word to a specific definition. In other words, it ensures the - purely mental & metaphorical! - spectres of Karl Popper, Wolfgang Pauli & Imre Lakatos will avoid haunting one. ;)</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I assume restating them in this way should pose no big difficulty for you, as 'all' this would require of you consists of the complete avoidance of any conjugations of "to be" (such as: "is") in the outcome of the process of restating the principles.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Note: The writing of this email should follow this same principle, and it seems that it indeed does.³</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Kind regards,</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Arthur Wist</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">¹ See Kellogg, E. W., and D. David Bourland. “WORKING WITH E-PRIME: SOME PRACTICAL NOTES.” ETC: A Review of General Semantics, vol. 47, no. 4, 1990, pp. 376–392. JSTOR, JSTOR, <a href="http://www.jstor.org/stable/42577258" target="_blank">www.jstor.org/stable/42577258</a>. Available in full at <a href="http://www.generalsemantics.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/articles/etc/47-4-kellogg-bourland.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr>generalsemantics.org/wp-<wbr>content/uploads/2011/05/<wbr>articles/etc/47-4-kellogg-<wbr>bourland.pdf</a></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">² A book which has a very unfortunate name and history, as it reminds of the well known problem of highly pseudoscientific "Quantum mysticism", although it has precisely nothing to do with this pseudoscience nonsense and instead describes a highly novel thesis within the field of transactional psychology, which merely uses parts of physics as an analogy and as a metaphor, and nothing more. Combined with the fact that the author has - in an act of self-admittedly intentional, discordian <span style="font-family:sans-serif">guerilla-</span>ontologica<wbr>l 'terrorism' - previously disseminated various pseudoscience under the pretense of fringe science doesn't exactly make this a popular work. The fact that it has - until very recently! - remained out of print didn't help, either.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">³ Or at least, so the E-Primeness checker at <a href="https://www.compendiumdev.co.uk/page.php?title=eprimer">https://www.compendiumdev.co.uk/page.php?title=eprimer</a> claims.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 20 Sep 2017 13:56, "Pedro C. Marijuan" <<a href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es">pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="m_808420579632246681moz-cite-prefix">Dear FISers,<br>
<br>
Many thanks for all the comments and criticisms. Beyond concrete
agreements/disagreements the discussion is lively, and that is the
main point. It is complicate pointing at some fundamental,
ultimate reality based on disciplinary claims. Putting it
differently, the hierarchies between scientific disciplines were
fashionable particularly in the reductionism times; but now
fortunately those decades (70s, 80s) are far away. Actually, the
new views taking shape are not far from the term "knowledge
recombination" that appears in some of the principles discussed.
Modern research could be typified by being: curiosity-led,
technologically driven, multi-scaled, interdisciplinary, and
integrative (paraphrasing Cuthill et al., 2017). Contemporary
philosophers like John Dupré have dealt with some soft
"perspectivism" but they do not deal with the disciplinary
recombination rigorously. I think this is one of the main concerns
of our nascent info-science.<br>
Rafael in his message enters into some undergrounds of the idea of
Principles/Methods/<wbr>Explanations in the way Ortega discusses it for
Leibnitz. That book is particularly dense, and I am not aware of
interesting synthesis about it. One of its early claims is that
Principles have to be evident (intuitive for Husserl), useful for
verification and for the construction of logical proofs, and
further they have to open "new ways of thinking" ("modos de
pensar" for Ortega). For Leibnitz, according to Ortega, "thinking
is proving" so the classical emphasis was on the logical power of
principles. But their capability to support an inspiring new way
of thinking was ignored or just left implicit. And this is a big
problem not only in our field but in many multidisciplinary
endeavors: excellent research ideas are accompanied by really
vulgar "metaphysics" (or better, metadisciplinary views). See for
instance the Big Data research on so-called "social physics". Or
the excellent book on "Scale" recently published (great at
climbing from atoms to cells, organisms, enterprises, and cities;
but really poor in the multifarious information/communication
underlying worlds).<br>
Anyhow, these are superficial comments inspired by the many
excellent messages exchanged. There is a self-organization of the
discussion taking place, and it is nice that we are concentrating
discussion on the 3 first principles, somehow devoted to
information per se. Once we smash these topics, we may go for the
biologically related (principles 4-6), later on for the
recombination and ecology of knowledge (principles 7-9), and
finally for the ethical goals of our new science efforts, as
Joseph has commented (principle 10).<br>
<br>
Best whishes to all<br>
--Pedro <br>
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The El 19/09/2017 a las 11:30, Pedro C. Marijuan escribió:<br>
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<div class="m_808420579632246681moz-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'.
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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> <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.
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