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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear FIS Colleagues,<br>
      <br>
      Some brief responses to Loet's and Jerry's comments.<br>
      <br>
      To Loet, unfortunately real life does not allow such neat scheme
      of expectations, observations, and modifications/decisions--except
      in the abstract. Daily life is surrounded by multitude of
      behavioral cycles and happenstances from the subject himself and
      from the surrounding parties impinging on the subject. It is
      difficult to isolate mainstreams there, and it is difficult to
      know how to orient oneself for the troubled future. Besides,
      important decisions are often irreversible, they mark the course
      of life and there is no way to return to the initial conditions.
      How easily a promising young life can be wasted... And this is the
      role of traditional great stories/narratives: lecturing on how to
      realize the "potential" of one's life, orienting on the big
      unknowns that particularly the young party starting his/her social
      life has to confront. They orient, amuse, and "entertain"--all in
      one. In our parlance, they are highly efficient <u>social
        information tools</u> that contain important adaptive knowledge
      for flourishing in some concrete culture. I do not see much
      interest in what physicalist perspectives can say on that. Maybe I
      did not succeed with the terms, trying to connect the social
      potential with the general biological potentiality, but this was
      the gist.<br>
      <br>
      In any case, there was a statement in my previous message <i>"I
        do not consider unscientific the Jungian stance, but not quite
        scientific either"</i> that in a second thought consider
      inappropriate. Rather, Jung's work in this realm should be taken
      as belonging to the Humanities. Just that. And to be fair he has
      provided a strong way to analyze stories/narratives which has been
      adopted by some of the most relevant commentators today (Booker,
      Bonnet). The further point, after acknowledging that scholarly
      fact, is whether that perspective can be improved... Probably. I
      already mentioned about the unconscious: that it could be more
      accurate considering the brain-rest activation of contemporary
      neuroscience (Default Mode Network) as taking charge of that
      involuntary emergence of impressions and deep memories. There are
      now ambitious theoretical schemes of neural information processing
      that could provide light on other points of the conscious, the
      emotional, the sensorimotor, the excitation/inhibition coupling,
      the optimization of neural entropy, etc. But they have to connect
      with natural behavior, and also finally with narratives. <br>
      <br>
      To Jerry's, after his four pages on perplex number system, I can
      only say that great, terrific. It could have been an interesting
      presentation for an ad hoc discussion session. I am tempted to
      twist a few sentences of his text and to intercalate four pages or
      so on signaling systems, or on the "sociotype", which is closer to
      the current session. But that is not the scholarly way of
      discussion.<br>
      <br>
      To finalize, there is a provocative sentence in Bonnet's closing
      of his book: <b>"The one who tells the stories rules the world."</b><br>
      <br>
      Best wishes<br>
      --Pedro <br>
      <br>
      <br>
      El 25/11/2018 a las 5:10, Loet Leydesdorff escribió:<br>
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      <div>Dear Pedro, Joseph, and colleagues, </div>
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      <div>Let me side with Joseph in this instance.</div>
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          <div class="moz-cite-prefix">memories? And, similarly, does
            not "potential" refer to cognitive/anticipatory capabilities
            that somehow detect higher fitness possibilities along some
            behavioral paths than others, and then conduce to the long
            term realization and flourishing of a life cycle? The
            potential belongs, say, to the "processual" not to the
            physical. In my view, the general challenge is to re-explain
            narratives, the fundamental commodity of social
            communication, in a more advanced conceptualization, beyond
            the Jungian, the Shannonian, or the corrosive
            fake-correctedness  of our times... It can be done. The
            neuroscientific approach would be badly needed to recreate
            the terminology and the fundamental ideas.</div>
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        <div id="x24986aaac8ed49c" style="">Perhaps, I miss the meaning
          of some of the wordings in this narrative :-), but it seems to
          me that there is something terribly wrong here. "The potential
          belongs ... to the "processual." We can consider this as "nom
          de gueux."</div>
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        <div id="x24986aaac8ed49c" style="">One always begins with the
          specification of expectations. I assume that these are then
          "processual"? Expectations (possible states) are tested
          against observations and can then sometimes be rejected.</div>
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        <div id="x24986aaac8ed49c" style="">For example: One can
          hypothesize that there are gender differences on this list.
          Then, one can cross-table those of us who on average publish
          0, 1, or 2 postings with the gender differences (M/F).  This
          generates a 3 times 2  table. </div>
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        <div id="x24986aaac8ed49c" style="">Using the margin totals one
          can compute the expected values of each cell and test the
          observed values against the expectations. The expectations are
          "processual"? Indeed, they are possibilities which do not have
          to be realized. That is an empirical question.</div>
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        <div id="x24986aaac8ed49c" style="">Unfortunately,
          Logic-in-Reality works as a logic with only two values (T/F).
          This may lead to a poor design when one needs more grey
          shades.</div>
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        <div id="x24986aaac8ed49c" style="">Best,</div>
        <div id="x24986aaac8ed49c" style="">Loet.</div>
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                            Leydesdorff <o:p
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                            style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Professor
                            emeritus,
                            University of Amsterdam<br>
                            Amsterdam School of Communication Research
                            (ASCoR)<o:p
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                            style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">; </span><span
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                              href="http://www.leydesdorff.net/"
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                            style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D"> <br>
                          </span><span style="font-size: 9pt;">Associate
                            Faculty, </span><span style="color:#44546A"><a
                              href="http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/"
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                            style="font-size: 9pt;">University of
                            Sussex; <o:p
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                            style="font-size: 9pt;">, Hangzhou; Visiting
                            Professor, </span><span
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                            University of London; <o:p
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            Best regards<br>
            --Pedro <br>
            <br>
             El 21/11/2018 a las 9:31, Joseph Brenner escribió:<br>
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                    style="font-size: 11pt;">Dear Colleagues,<o:p
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"><span
                    style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy" lang="EN-GB">Pedro’s
                    approach, solidly anchored in biology, allows for
                    progress in understanding. Two comments on his
                    ‘logic’: 1) I would not call the ‘concoction’ within
                    which we live imaginary. It is rather a set of real,
                    dynamic mental processes, with actual and potential,
                    effectively causal components. 2) ‘Complex life’
                    instantiates potential (and kinetic) energy not only
                    in a ‘book keeping role’. Complex life is
                    constituted by actual and potential energy evolving
                    in cycles and stages. Some myths (Epimetheus and
                    Prometheus) correctly express this duality and its
                    evolution.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></font></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"><span
                    style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy" lang="EN-GB">Unfortunately,
                    there is another myth that I believe correctly
                    models part of Jerry’s proposals. It is that of
                    Procrustes, an innkeeper who stretched or cut the
                    legs of his guests to make them fit the only
                    available beds, until taken care of by Heracles. You
                    write:   </span></font><span lang="EN-GB">A lot more
                  needs to be said about the intimate nature of
                  relations among scientific narratives before one can
                  bind the logic of the perplex number system to the
                  grammars associated with mathematically structured
                  anticipatory systems.</span><font size="2"
                  color="navy"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"
                    lang="EN-GB"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></font></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"><span
                    style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy" lang="EN-GB"><o:p
                      xmlns:o="#unknown"> </o:p></span></font></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"><span
                    style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy" lang="EN-GB">This
                    sentence needs to be parsed, given the concatenation
                    of terms: in my opinion, the purpose of
                    understanding the relations among scientific
                    narratives is to understand real anticipatory
                    systems, whether or not mathematically structured.
                    Perplex numbers are artificial numerological
                    constructions with a corresponding logic that may or
                    may not apply to other artificial constructions,
                    such as abstract anticipatory systems, without
                    dynamics. Narratives about real science could be
                    applied in principle to such questions, but the
                    implication must be avoided that such application
                    would tell us anything about reality. <o:p
                      xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></font></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"><span
                    style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy" lang="EN-GB"><o:p
                      xmlns:o="#unknown"> </o:p></span></font></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"><span
                    style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy" lang="EN-GB">I
                    cannot accept any manipulation of numbers as being
                    more than <i>a posteriori. </i>This applies also
                    to Karl’s approach. Also, the concept of an ‘in-<i>formed</i>’
                    number is an oxymoron, although I understand the
                    attempt to ascribe ‘value-by-association’, so to
                    speak. Numbers cannot accept ‘form’, or its meaning;
                    they exist, eternally, outside the world of form and
                    change.  <o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></font></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"><span
                    style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy" lang="EN-GB"><o:p
                      xmlns:o="#unknown"> </o:p></span></font></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"><span
                    style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy" lang="EN-GB">I
                    thus stress the importance of Pedro’s statement: 
                    processes do not go </span></font><span
                  lang="EN-GB">smoothly upwards from the quantum level.</span><font
                  size="2" color="navy"><span
                    style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy" lang="EN-GB"> As
                    one proceeds to higher levels of reality, there are
                    discontinuities and different laws apply. One only
                    notes the presence of some isomorphisms, such as the
                    failure of some macroscopic process equations to
                    commute or distribute. Finally, I, at least, will
                    resist any attempts to let in, through the back
                    door, anti-scientific concepts of quantum processes
                    in mind and cognition.<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></font></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"><span
                    style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy" lang="EN-GB"><o:p
                      xmlns:o="#unknown"> </o:p></span></font></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"><span
                    style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy" lang="EN-GB">Best
                    wishes,<o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></font></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"><span
                    style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy" lang="EN-GB"><o:p
                      xmlns:o="#unknown"> </o:p></span></font></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy"><span
                    style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy" lang="EN-GB">Joseph<o:p
                      xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></font></p>
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                  align="center"><font size="3" color="black"><span
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                      lang="EN-US">
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                        width="100%"> </span></font></div>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"
                      color="black"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext;font-weight:bold"
                        lang="EN-US">From:</span></font></b><font
                    size="2" face="Tahoma" color="black"><span
                      style="font-size:10.0pt;
                      font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext" lang="EN-US">
                      Fis [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
                        href="mailto:fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es"
                        moz-do-not-send="true">mailto:fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es</a>]
                      <b>On Behalf Of </b>Pedro C. Marijuan<br>
                      <b>Sent:</b> mardi, 20 novembre 2018 21:15<br>
                      <b>To:</b> fis<br>
                      <b>Cc:</b> Jerry LR Chandler<br>
                      <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Fis] Anticipatory
                      Systems--"Potential"</span></font><font
                    color="black"><span style="color:windowtext"
                      lang="EN-US"><o:p xmlns:o="#unknown"></o:p></span></font></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black"><span
                    style="font-size:12.0pt" lang="EN-GB"><o:p
                      xmlns:o="#unknown"> </o:p></span></font></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black">Dear
                    Jerry and FIS colleagues,<br>
                    <br>
                    I wonder how big or how clever your Chemostat
                    apparatus should be. There are thousands of
                    metabolic intermediates in an organism, and there
                    are another thousands of diversified signals. And we
                    have in the order of 30 billion cells (trillions in
                    the US system). Plus around 100 trillion of
                    bacterial cells in the microbiome. "We" are the
                    emergence all of that molecular diversity. It does
                    not mean that life exactly "controls" all the
                    details of the mega-information of this whole
                    system... How that control is organized, the
                    principles of biological information, so to speak,
                    become another great question, but probably very
                    different from the idea of mass control in a
                    chemostat. </font><span lang="EN-GB">In any case,
                    the way you have argued it, seemingly smoothly going
                    upwards from the quantum level, is beyond of what I
                    consider feasible. </span>Scientific overstretching
                  of a reasonable paradigm perhaps.<br>
                  <br>
                  Socially, indeed, we do not try to communicate around
                  by following a colossal strategy of reducing
                  happenstances to their quantum description; neither to
                  the kind of meta-languages you mention. In general,
                  social communication revolves around narratives. They
                  are not free-wheeling constructions (at least
                  referring to the "great stories" of all epochs) but
                  optimized tools to guide individuals in the
                  advancement of their lives, in the achievement of
                  their "potential". Looking at the historical evolution
                  of those great stories, they are teaching us about
                  which were the cardinal aspects of common life to be
                  specifically grasped by the child, by the adolescent,
                  by the maiden, the artisan, the warrior, the priest...
                  And in this social communication endeavors, life
                  cycles do not appear as homogeneous linearly "timed".
                  Human lives are continuously looking ahead,
                  anticipating ("Prometheus" style) but simultaneously
                  looking at the past and pondering on it ("Epimetheus"
                  style). Although "presentists", we live within an
                  imaginary concoction built of mosaic pasts and
                  futures, "multi-timed" so to speak. The way to
                  harmonize past, present, and future (vital
                  information) is one of the leit motifs of those great
                  stories.<br>
                  <br>
                  And about cycles, so many of them can be found. At the
                  scale of the organism:  cellular & tissular
                  cycles, metabolic cycles, behavioral cycles, ultradian
                  cycles, circadian cycles, seasonal cycles, yearly
                  cycles, secular cycles, and many others related to
                  social mores. Some of them can be arranged in a sort
                  of hierarchy or inclusivity, but there is a
                  fundamental diversity. That most of this orchestration
                  of cycles does not require a conscious effort does not
                  mean that we should ignore them concerning the roots
                  of social communication. The cycles and stages (and
                  "passages") within a life cycle have an ominous
                  presence. As i was saying, the "potential" of each
                  young life in ascend requires the reception of wisdom
                  (via social communication narratives) to integrate the
                  own individual path within the social matrix of the
                  time.<br>
                  <br>
                  Thinking twice about the "potential" of life, it might
                  be something important to consider regarding any form
                  or manifestation of life. Perhaps better than the
                  Principle of Conatus from Spinoza I was referring days
                  ago (the effort to self-maintain and flourish).
                  Complex life has "potential" to advance along some
                  multi-time, multi-cycle developmental path in the most
                  complex of all environments: the social matrix. Is
                  there some deep similarity of this potential with the
                  role that "potential" energy plays in our book-keeping
                  of energy conservation?<br>
                  <br>
                  Thanking the comments,<br>
                  Best--Pedro<br>
                    <br>
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