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Colleagues,</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">I agree with Joseph
and Pedro that: </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">“There are no ideal
meta-observers; we are all, to a certain extent, both meta-observers of the
discussion and participants in it. This is not a simple vertical hierarchy. We
move between these two roles, switching from actualizing one to the
other.”</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">What I think is that
from point of view of the observed system, object, event, etc., it is better to
say “external observer” and “internal observer” in corresponded cases just
because “this is not a simple vertical hierarchy”.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">Now, let me continue
with little explanation about “model” and “mental model”.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">If one will visit the
Wikipedia he/she will find series of examples of concept “model”
[1].</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">As Marx Wartofsky
remarks [2], the concept "model" has been used for denotation of the very large
class of phenomena: mechanical, theoretical, linguistic, etc. constructions. He
gave a good definition of the model relation and in [2] he made clear the main
characteristics of the models. His definition is as follow: </FONT></SPAN></P>
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face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">“</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">The model relation is
triple M: </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">M: (S, x, y)
</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">where "S" is subject
for whom "x" represents "y". </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">In other words only in
this relation and only for the subject "S" the entity "x" is a model of the
entity "y".</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">“</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">The easy but not
serious definition of the “mental model” is to say: “it is a model in the
subject’s consciousness”. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">Again, in Wikipedia,
there are several examples [5]. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">This way is not good
because it is very difficult to answer the question: who is “the subject” in
this case? </FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">So, we need another
definition.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
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style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">In mathematics, a
<I>structure on a set</I>, or more generally a <I>type</I>, consists of
additional mathematical objects that, in some manner, attach (or relate) to the
set, making it easier to visualize or work with, or endowing the collection with
meaning or significance. A partial list of possible structures are measures,
algebraic structures (groups, fields, etc.), topologies, metric structures
(geometries), orders, events, equivalence relations, differential structures,
and categories.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">Sometimes, a set is
endowed with more than one structure simultaneously; this enables mathematicians
to study it more richly. For example, an order induces a topology. As another
example, if a set both has a topology and is a group, and the two structures are
related in a certain way, the set becomes a topological group.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">Mappings between sets
which preserve structures (so that structures in the domain are mapped to
equivalent structures in the co-domain) are of special interest in many fields
of mathematics. Examples are homomorphisms, which preserve algebraic structures;
homeomorphisms, which preserve topological structures; diffeomorphisms, which
preserve differential structures; [3], and the functors which preserve category
structures.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">To avoid
misunderstandings with concepts Subject, agent, animal, human, society,
humanity, living creatures, etc., in [4] we use the abstract concept “INFOS” to
denote every of them as well as all of artificial creatures which has features
similar to the former ones. </FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">Here we are interested
only of three features of Infos: receptors, effectors, and memory. Infos has
possibility to reflect the reality via receptors and to operate with received
reflections in its memory. The opposite is possible - via effectors Infos has
possibility to realize in reality some of its (self-)reflections from its
consciousness.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">If the following
diagram exists and if it is commutative, then it represents all modeling
relations:</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">- in reality: real
models, </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">- in consciousness:
mental models;</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">- between reality and
consciousness: perceiving data and creating mental models.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">It is easy to imagine
the case when the Infos realizes its reflections using its effectors, i.e.
relation between consciousness and reality: realizing mental models and creating
data. In this case the receptors’ arrows should be replaces by opposite
effectors’ arrows.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman"></FONT></SPAN> </P>
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style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">In mathematical terms
in diagram above:</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">― Source
“<B><I>s</I></B>” and Recipient “<B><I>r</I></B>” are structured
sets;</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">― Infos is an
intelligent system;</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">― “<B><I>e</I></B>” is
a mapping from <B><I>s </I></B>in <B><I>r </I></B>which preserves (all or
partial) structures;</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal
style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">― mental source
“<B><I>s<SUB>i</SUB></I></B>” and mental recipient “<B><I>r<SUB>i</SUB></I></B>”
are structured sets;</FONT></SPAN></P>
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style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">―
“<B><I>e<SUB>i</SUB></I></B>” is a mapping from <B><I>s<SUB>i</SUB> </I></B>in
<B><I>r<SUB>i</SUB> </I></B>which preserves (all or partial)
structures.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=Default style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </P>
<P class=Default style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">Finally, the task of the external observer is to create
the diagram above by using some experimental data and staying outside the system
(consciousness) - above the dotted line. </FONT></P>
<P class=Default style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">Respectively, the internal observer does the opposite.
The task of the internal observer is to create the diagram above by using some
(experimental) data and staying inside the system (consciousness) – below the
dotted line.</FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </P>
<P class=Default style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">Friendly greetings</FONT></P>
<P class=Default style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">Krassimir</FONT></P>
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face="Times New Roman"></FONT> </P>
<P class=Default style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model</FONT></P>
<P class=Default style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt"><FONT size=4
face="Times New Roman">[2] M.W.Wartofsky. Models. Representation and the
Scientific Understanding. D.Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht: Holland
/Boston: USA, London: England/, 1979. </FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT size=4>[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_structure<SPAN
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style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal; TEXT-AUTOSPACE: ; mso-layout-grid-align: none"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">[4] Kr. Markov, Kr.
Ivanova, I. Mitov. Basic Structure of the General Information Theory. IJ ITA,
Vol.14, No.: 1, 2007. pp. 5-19.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_model</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: "><FONT size=4 face="Times New Roman">PS: If the diagram is
not visible after posting in FIS-list I shall duplicate this message presenting
it by symbols.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es
href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es">PEDRO CLEMENTE MARIJUAN FERNANDEZ</A>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, March 04, 2018 9:36 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=joe.brenner@bluewin.ch
href="mailto:joe.brenner@bluewin.ch">joe.brenner@bluewin.ch</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=fis@listas.unizar.es
href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es">fis@listas.unizar.es</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Fis] Meta-observer?</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<P>Dear Colleagues,</P>
<P> </P>
<P>I am reluctant to discuss the information matters related to our language as
they too easily mess things up. But Eric Werner short paper (2010, Science 329,
629-630) makes a very adequate remark in the context of Shannon's theory and
biologic information that may also apply to language use: "The meaning of a
message is determined by how it affects the informational and intentional state
of the agent. Agents coordinate their actions by using communication to adjust
their respective strategies so that they cohere to achieve their interlocking
goals."</P>
<P>The point on "interlocking goals" by Werner brings me to the centrality of
life cycles (synchronization of lives), in all quarters pertaining to the
biological and to the social, and also in our languages. But they are not still
recognized as a central concern to ponder. They are like the water for the fish,
that invisible stuff which permeates our societies. </P>
<P>Finally, let me return to Joseph's interpretation of meta-observers below,
which I concur. In actuality, the full world of disciplines with all their
institutional collective bodies, Institutes, Departments, Journals, Reviewers,
Meetings, formal and informal gatherings, etc. constitute a thought collective
well beyond the individual. In our case, the "meta" complexity is well credited,
as the problems around information cross along some of the deepest conundrums:
from a new evolutionary/cellular theory to the absence of an efficient central
theory of neurosciences (&consciousness); from quantum information
(&measurement&coherence interpretations) to cosmology; from the
relationship with entropy to the information society, and of course including
the new "dataism" to be discussed soon.</P>
<P>And this is my second cent of the week. </P>
<P>Best--Pedro</P>
<P> </P>
<P> </P>
<P>On Sat, 3 Mar 2018 02:58:28 +0100 (CET) "joe.brenner@bluewin.ch" wrote:</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>Dear Pedro and All, </P>
<P> </P>
<P>If I go back to Pedro's original note, I see a further aspect which might
be worked into its discussion. There are no ideal meta-observers; we are all,
to a certain extent, both meta-observers of the discussion and participants in
it. This is not a simple vertical hierarchy. We move between these two roles,
switching from actualizing one to the other. Recognition of both should help
accomplish what I have tried to propose, namely, that we force ourselves to
emphasize someone else's work in our proposals, rather than our own.</P>
<P> </P>
<P>Best regards,</P>
<P> </P>
<P>Joseph</P>
<BLOCKQUOTE>----Message d'origine----<BR>De :
pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es<BR>Date : 28/02/2018 - 05:34 (PST)<BR>À :
fis@listas.unizar.es<BR>Objet : [Fis] Meta-observer?<BR><BR>
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<P>Dear FISers,</P>
<P> </P>
<P>Although I share Terry's concern, I do not think
that</P>p>expostulating one's general framework is going to facilitate
the p>discussions. Perhaps opposite, as it will introduce a trend towards
<P>generalization that fortifies the perspectival differences and makes</P>
<P>the rhetorics less adjusted to the concrete. The problem basically</P>
<P>resides in the persistent immaturity of the "information synthesis"
so</P>
<P>to speak. Defenders of each approach advocate a different "observer",</P>
<P>charged in each case with their favorite conceptualizations. Taking</P>
<P>into account the apparent multitude of dimensions of information, and</P>
<P>its almost unfathomable reach, a "battery" of those observers has to</P>
<P>be in place. And an agile switching among the observers has to be</P>
<P>established. A sort of "attention" capable of fast and furious</P>
<P>displacements of the focus... helas, this means a meta-observer
</P>
<P>or an observer-in-command.</P>
<P>But what sort of reference may such a</P>
<P>metaobserver arbitrate? There is no conceivable book of rules about</P>
<P>the switching between heterogeneous disciplinary bodies.</P>
<P>I see</P>
<P>only one way, imitating the central goal of nervous systems: the</P>
<P>metaobserver should finally care about our collective social life. It</P>
<P>was Whitehead, as far as I remember, who put it: "to live, to live</P>
<P>better." In each level of organization it is the life cycle of the</P>
<P>concerned entities and the aggregates built upon them what</P>
<P>matters. </P>
<P>Information is not only about logic-formal</P>
<P>aspects. It is the bread and butter of complexity, that which allows</P>
<P>contemporary social life. </P>
<P>So, in the coming session about</P>
<P>"dataism" we can also explore these themes.</P>
<P> </P>
<P>Best--Pedro</P>
<P> </P>
<P> </P>
<P> </P>
<P> </P>/blockquote>
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