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and All, <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Very good
that life is going on. Let us hope that the group, now shrunken in numbers, is even
more focused on the subject matter of the mental construct of information. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I was
just about to post an invitation to the list to take up an approach to the
subject of information in a biological context. The main statement is:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We live in a cyclic, periodic,
rhythmic environment.<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">(Implication: biologic systems, having adapted, function in cyclic,
periodic, rhythmic ways.)<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Definitions:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Cycle : a
strict succession of a finite number of elements that has no first element;<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Period :
a name for a cycle that contains other cycles;<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Rhythm :
the interference based on, caused as a corollary of, periods and cycles. <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Examples
:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Cycle :
heartbeat; day-night<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Period :
breathing; lunar phases<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Rhythm :
what the polygraph registers; signal for mass migration, spawning, etc.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">What is
locally a period, can of course be a cycle within a picture generated by a
wider perspective. Examples: heartbeat and breathing are both cycles within the
period of activity and sleeping; the change of forces during the period of a
year creates a rhythm of maximal and minimal tides at specific nights (which
the tortoises use).<span></span></span></p>
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<div style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor windowtext;border-style:none none solid;border-width:medium medium 1pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1pt">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;border:medium none;padding:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">It is state of the art to use such tools that are appropriate to the investigations
one conducts. The proposition is, then, to use cycles as the basis of rational
thought. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;border:medium none;padding:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;border:medium none;padding:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Once the fundamental reorganisation among the concepts within the
researcher’s brain has been achieved, the outwardly visible activity of using
microscopes and conducting experiments follows by itself. The validity of the
theory can be put to the test, once one does have a theory. The lack of a
theory creates difficulties of arriving at a robust concept of information. The
resistance to a global change of perspectives appears to be rooted solidly in
the construction of the fundaments of traditional thinking. The first step is
to create a theory: and a theory of a world made up of loops is un-imaginable,
if the basic concept in the brain of the researcher is a line and not a loop.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;border:medium none;padding:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;border:medium none;padding:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The time has come for a badly needed cultural revolution in order to be
able to comprehend the simple, basic, self-evident principle of that what glues
the world together. Its elements were never unglued, only our mind puts each
element clean-shaven, solitary, without neighbours, in the centre of
imagination, as the basic unit. The Sumer, Euclid, Kant, Descartes concept of
units and axes is not applicable any more, as we move to understand biology as
a rational process. It is time to rewrite Bruno’s Cause, Principle and Unit, having
recognised the unit to be a cycle, the principle to be that of order, which
more or less leaves the aspect of cause to become self-explanatory.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;border:medium none;padding:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;border:medium none;padding:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">There are several culture shocks to be experienced until the general
public accepts the circadic view of the world. There are some quite valid
taboos against some of the concepts.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;border:medium none;padding:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;border:medium none;padding:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Research has uncovered simple algorithmic rules that shed light on
relations between what is the case, where and when and in which sequence, as
contrasted to that what is not the case. The last time the subject of trying to
shed the light of reason into that what we do not know, Wittgenstein has
determined that our rational language does not allow us to formulate and
comprehend something that is not rational. This is, in fact, true. We cannot
see the other side of a thing we look at, because that is by definition the
background, against which we perceive that what we see. Yet, engineering ingenuity
has brought us turning tables and high-speed cameras since then. We still cannot
see that what is turned away from us, it being presently the background. But we
can now do a replay in slow motion, and we can choose, from which position we
regard the object of our interest. This allows a migratory concept of
foreground and background. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;border:medium none;padding:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;border:medium none;padding:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The cultural taboo regards the implicit danger of defending too much
against megalomania. It is not easy to cortically manipulate an inner model,
the substance of which is that one decides oneself what is true and what is
false, and this in an objective fashion. One has been educated into knowing
axiomatically, that such things one decides oneself are not, and cannot be, a
subject of objective discourse. If I decide what is right and what is false,
the subject is not a scientific one. This inner reluctance has to be overcome,
and not all and each of our cocitoyens are of a fiercely independence-loving
mindset, while being the occupant of a respected position in the scientific hierarchy.
<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;border:medium none;padding:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;border:medium none;padding:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We defend also against the seductions posed by anancastic rituals. Order
is a concept that is culturally very heavily loaded, and has manifold
variations in the local culture, which was the family our respected researcher
has grown up in. To overdo an ordering is very unpleasant for children who are
subjected to concepts of order imposed by the grown-ups. While it has been
acceptable to imagine urns with colored balls in them, and describe into the
last detail how many and what possible outcomes the experiments of drawing
balls from urns can result in, there is a reluctance to investigate the degrees
of disorder the same balls can be brought into, outside of urns. No
self-respecting dedicated follower of combinatorics has had found time yet to
address the question, how many and what possible cycles emerge if one orders
balls and then re-orders them again. The task is equally absurd and anancastic,
whether one draws balls from urns or one sequences them outside of urns. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;border:medium none;padding:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;border:medium none;padding:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Individual taboos appear as a consequence of mental reorganisations as
the child enters the phase of latency, usually at the age 5 to 7 years. At this
development stage, the child has learnt the rules of order. That the decision,
which order prevails and to what degree of dominance, is embedded in various
emotional connotations of situations while one has learnt that order is coming
from outside, and that this decision is not something one oneself can and will
and is permitted to decide on, that this subject of imposing order is not one’s
task, does not help while learning to use a practical tool of arithmetic that
works by the ever-changing competition of order concepts. “Such an order which
I impose is not an order in the real sense of the world” is not infrequently
encountered in actual situations. Among the decisions one makes around this age
is to be no more a baby and no more do thinking-enjoyments like a baby does,
who would keep ordering things long after they had been ordered enough, just
for play and entertainment. One has learnt the patterns and how to generate the
other patterns. Case closed. Today, we invite the same child, now a respected
researcher, to reopen the bag of patterns, and to learn the pattern of
transforming patterns into each other.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;border:medium none;padding:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;border:medium none;padding:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Let me put forward the wish for the coming FIS season that we open up
and tell frankly, how radical the change in the world views needs to be so that
we can integrate the elusive concept of information into our system of rational
concepts we can effortlessly share. <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;border:medium none;padding:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;border:medium none;padding:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Respectfully yours</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;border:medium none;padding:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Karl<br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;border:medium none;padding:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span></span></span></p>
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