<div dir="ltr">David Chalmers's analysis made it clear that if agents exist, then they are as fundamental to the universe as electrons or gravitational mass. <div><br></div><div>Certain kinds of physiological structure support 'agents' - those emphasized by complexity biology. But the actual subject has to be non-reducible and fundamental to our universe. </div><div><br></div><div>Alex </div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 17 October 2017 at 04:53, Arthur Wist <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arthur.wist@gmail.com" target="_blank">arthur.wist@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Dear Krassimir, Dear FIS,<span>
</span><p dir="ltr">I suspect one might find a way to answer this question about what constitutes an agent in this paper by J.H. van Hateren:</p><p dir="ltr"><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.8314" target="_blank">https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.<wbr>8314</a></p><p dir="ltr">Entitled: "What does Maxwell's demon want from life? When information becomes functional and physical"</p><p dir="ltr">(which also provides an important distinction about 'information')</p><p dir="ltr">However, I would propose that 'an agent' /as such/ cannot exist, in the sense that it cannot exist as a fundamental, but that a system imbued with quality of agency however, *can* exist. </p><p dir="ltr">Yet, this, as does the paper, would seem to pose the question of what endows a system with the quality of 'agency'. Perhaps one ought to use Heinz von Förster's approximation of "<span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Recursively Operating Non-Trivial Machine", but replace "machine" with "system", and assume that this consequently leads to that...</span></p><p>Kind regards,<br><br><br>Arthur</p></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr"><br></p><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, 16 Oct 2017, 09:46 Gyorgy Darvas, <<a href="mailto:darvasg@iif.hu" target="_blank">darvasg@iif.hu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Information exists at all levels of Agents.<br><br>
Good luck,<br>
Gyuri<br>
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On 2017.10.15. 23:27, Krassimir Markov wrote:<br>
> Dear FIS Colleagues,<br>
><br>
> After nice collaboration last weeks, a paper Called “Data versus<br>
> Information” is prepared in very beginning draft variant and already is<br>
> sent to authors for refining.<br>
> Many thanks for fruitful work!<br>
><br>
> What we have till now is the understanding that the information is some<br>
> more than data.<br>
> In other words:<br>
> d = r<br>
> i = r + e<br>
> where:<br>
> d => data;<br>
> i => information;<br>
> r => reflection;<br>
> e => something Else, internal for the Agent (subject, interpreter,<br>
> etc.).<br>
><br>
> Simple question: What is “Agent”?<br>
><br>
> When an entity became an Agent? What is important to qualify the entity as<br>
> Agent or as an Intelligent Agent? What kind of agent is the cell? At the<br>
> end - does information exist for Agents or only for Intelligent Agents?<br>
><br>
> Thesis: Information exists only for the Intelligent Agents.<br>
><br>
> Antithesis: Information exists at all levels of Agents.<br>
><br>
> Friendly greetings<br>
> Krassimir<br>
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