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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman ;color:navy"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman \;color\:navy";color:navy'>Dear
Pedro,<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman ;color:navy"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman \;color\:navy";color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman ;color:navy"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman \;color\:navy";
color:navy'>You make some very good points to which attention should be called
for future reference. One is that one cannot make progress by taking a natural
system (DNA-protein) and connecting it to an un-natural system of lower
complexity. The same kind of error is made by ignoring energetic pathways which
can only be described by reference to the properties of energy and its logic,
where meaning is present <i><span style='font-style:italic'>a priori</span></i>
in both the physical and metaphysical senses.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman ;color:navy"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman \;color\:navy";
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman ;color:navy"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman \;color\:navy";
color:navy'>On the positive side, I think the emerging concept of a social
information science should be a guideline against which to measure most if not
all of one’s work. It is no longer ethical, if it ever was, to waste energy and
resources on outdated dogma. Even m</span></font><font size=2 color=navy
face="Times New Roman"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
"Times New Roman";color:navy'>ore importantly, perhaps, the concept of <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>social information science </span></i>points toward
(or includes) a potential <i><span style='font-style:italic'>political
information science</span></i>, in which serious issues of ‘post-neo-casino’
capitalism can be discussed with the necessary openness and rigor. In my view,
keeping a discussion like this one completely politically neutral makes it
neuter in the long run.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Times New Roman ;color:navy"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman \;color\:navy";
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Times New Roman ;color:navy"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman \;color\:navy";
color:navy'>Thank you and best wishes,<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Times New Roman ;color:navy"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman \;color\:navy";
color:navy'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Times New Roman ;color:navy"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman \;color\:navy";
color:navy'>Joseph<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman \;color\:navy";
color:navy'> <u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext'> Fis [mailto:<st1:personname u4:st="on"><st1:PersonName
w:st="on">fis</st1:personname></st1:PersonName>-bounces@listas.unizar.es] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Pedro C. Marijuan<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> vendredi, 7 décembre 2018
17:38<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:personname u4:st="on"><st1:PersonName
w:st="on">fis</st1:personname></st1:PersonName>@listas.unizar.es<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Fis] Focusing on
Narratives. Infordomics</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=SimSun><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Dear Xueshan and FIS Colleagues,<br>
<br>
In your two posts you raise fundamental guidelines for social information
science. I much praise your efforts to bring coherence and structure into this
fundamental part of the whole information realm. A problem you ponder, which
Joseph has entered, relates to the importance of meaning and semiotics
(semiosis, semantics, etc.). Given that I maintain a long standing disagreement
with almost everybody in this matter, both in the biological and in the social,
I cannot help but saying a couple of things finally trying to connect with the
leit motif of the current discussion.<br>
<br>
My conclusion after considerable years of work in cellular signaling (contained
in half dozen main papers during last years) would not only be that
"INFORMATION IS RELATIVE..." but that it has to be appended with
"... TO THE LIFE CYCLE". So putting them together: INFORMATION IS
RELATIVE TO THE LIFE CYCLE. Unfortunately a whole generation of biosemioticians
have only focused in the DNA stupendous combinatorics of bases later translated
in the ribosome as proteins, connecting it with the Peircean schemes. And they
have disregarded what are the pathways that communicate with the environment so
that the specific energy contents needed may be recognized and imported. This
kind of signaling pathways have been used later on to produce the astonishing
complexity of multicellulars. Like in the classical dictum <em><i><font
face=SimSun><span style='font-family:SimSun'>"omnes viae</span></font></i></em><span
class=st><i><span style='font-style:italic'> Romam </span></i></span><em><i><font
face=SimSun><span style='font-family:SimSun'>ducunt" (all ways lead to
Rome), </span></font></i></em>all of these signaling pathways, <span class=st>all
the communication events with the environment, </span> directly or
indirectly conduce to the advancement of the life cycle. Meaning is thereafter
built as the generative result of each one of these paths or of their
coalitions. Overall, a very different bioinformational approach
looms--unfortunately scarcely trodden yet... Anyhow, we are going excessively
into the biological arena.<br>
<br>
The point is whether, in social information science, could something similar be
occurring? Isn't all the superstructure of linguistic communication
essentially animated by the necessities, pulsions, and expectations of a life
in progress? Doesn't the life course, in the form of all of its neuronal
instantaneities, appear as the main mover of our own consciousness contents? (a
specific discussion session on consciousness would be needed here). At least,
if we go now to the current discussion, isn't the advancement of the
individual's life the main focus of traditional narratives? If some of these
questions are responded positively, social information science would benefit of
establishing a "zeroth principle" around the life course, the Rome to
which all human communication paths conduce ... which I leave open, as I do not
like my present attempt ("The multifarious forms of social
information can only be understood as interwoven in the collective fabric of
human lives").<br>
<br>
This my second cent of the week, so I leave for a next occasion the comment on
Plamen's touching and intriguing content (plus Francesco and Karl).<br>
<br>
Best wishes<br>
--Pedro<br>
<br>
<br>
El 06/12/2018 a las 9:07, Xueshan Yan escribió:<u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:4.65pt'><font size=3 color=black
face=SimSun><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dear Joseph,</span><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<u5:p></u5:p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt;text-indent:21.0pt'><font size=3
color=black face=SimSun><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Very sorry
for the late reply. I think all the questions you put forward hit the points
what I said and each one of them is crucial. Let me give you my brief answers
as follows.<u5:p></u5:p></span><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:4.65pt;text-indent:21.1pt'><b><font
size=3 color=black face=SimSun><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>1. The root -<i><span style='font-style:italic'>domos</span></i>
of the word Infordomics<u5:p></u5:p></span></font></b><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:4.65pt;text-indent:21.0pt'><font size=3
color=black face=SimSun><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Yes, the
basic meaning of Greek root '-<i><span style='font-style:italic'>domos</span></i>'
is <i><span style='font-style:italic'>house</span></i> or <i><span
style='font-style:italic'>place</span></i>, but in older English dictionaries,
it has another meaning: others, miscellaneous.<u5:p></u5:p></span><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:4.65pt;text-indent:21.1pt'><b><font
size=3 color=black face=SimSun><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>2. Semiotics as Linguistics and as a major stand-alone<u5:p></u5:p></span></font></b><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:4.65pt;text-indent:21.0pt'><font size=3
color=black face=SimSun><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>This question
is not difficult to understand. Saussure once said that "Linguistics is a
sign subject." In other words, there are many branches of semiotics (just
as there are many branches of information science). Linguistics is only one of
the most important, mature, and standard branch of semiotics. In addition, we
also have many other non-mainstream semiotics branch to deal with body
language, music language, dance language, painting language and so on. All
these are some human languages, and there are many other natural signs to study
yet. So we can only regard (human) linguistics what we usually called as one of
the branches of semiotics. Yes, you are right, in my statement, the serious one
should be: "Semiotics <a name="OLE_LINK2" moz-do-not-send=true></a><a
name="OLE_LINK1" moz-do-not-send=true></a>discusses the form of
information." Instead of: "Semiotics (Linguistics) discusses the form
of information."<u5:p></u5:p></span><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:4.65pt;text-indent:21.1pt'><b><font
size=3 color=black face=SimSun><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>3. Information, Meaning, Semiotics, and Semiotics</span></font></b><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<u5:p></u5:p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:4.65pt;text-indent:21.0pt'><font size=3
color=black face=SimSun><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>Just as Søren
and I suggested in another place, we could consider "Information, Meaning,
and Sign" as a set of adjacent topics and should gave a special concern.
In order to maintain the unity of rhetoric, my suggestion is: Information,
Meaning, and Sign. (or Informatics, Semantics, and Semiotics). I agree with
your "Semiosis both as meaning and as a dynamic process of reasoning and
of generating meaning.", as for whether to add it in this set or not, both
will be OK. Generally speaking, you, Søren, and I agree that Information,
Meaning, and Sign are three basic concepts in our study of social/human
information and communication.<u5:p></u5:p></span><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:4.65pt;text-indent:21.1pt'><b><font
size=3 color=black face=SimSun><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-weight:bold'>4. Meaning does not mean that it is an unscientific concept<u5:p></u5:p></span></font></b><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:4.65pt;text-indent:21.0pt'><font size=3
color=black face=SimSun><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>As we can
see, the relationship between information and meaning has been discussed in our
FIS forums for 20 years. Semantics of human natural language has been studied
for about 80 years. Meaning research in other humanities (including a large
number of philosophical and logical works) even has a more longer history, but
none of these studies has yet produced a universally accepted explanation. Can
our fundamental information science explorers contribute a little to this? I'm
looking forward to it.<u5:p></u5:p></span><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:4.65pt;text-indent:21.0pt'><font size=3
color=black face=SimSun><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:12.0pt'>When we read the
works of biology, genetics, and genomics, the common statement is that the four
base combinations of A, G, C, and T constitute a base sequence, and a group of
base sequences constitute a gene. In neuroscience, in astrophysics, there is
only "information" but no "meaning". In computer science,
in <st1:place u4:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Shannon</st1:place></st1:place>'s
information theory, there is only "information" but no
"meaning" too. Therefore, when I discuss <i><span style='font-style:
italic'>Inforware</span></i>, I define it as the three-level combination of
"Information, Sign, and Substrate" rather than the four-level
combination of "Information, Meaning, Sign, and Substrate". Very
fortunately, Guoheng Jia, a Chinese situation semantist, has given a
preliminary judgment that "information" and "meaning" could
be equivalent. (I've invited him to come to our FIS to give a talk in due
course.)<u5:p></u5:p></span><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;mso-para-margin-top:.5gd;text-indent:
24.0pt'><font size=3 color=black face=SimSun><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:
12.0pt'>FIS has been discussing for 20 years, and the fundamental exploration
of information science has been going on for decades. What is the contribution
of the researchers to it? Very little! We would fell relieved if we could take
even some small steps and make some small contributions to the basic issues.
Starting from some promising place and doing it down-to-earth, greed has no
future.<u5:p></u5:p></span><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt'><u5:p> </u5:p></span><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=SimSun><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Best wishes,<u5:p></u5:p></span><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=SimSun><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:12.0pt'>Xueshan</span><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:windowtext;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Calibri><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Calibri;color:windowtext'> <a
href="mailto:fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es" moz-do-not-send=true>fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es</a>
<a href="mailto:fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es" moz-do-not-send=true><fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es></a>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Joseph Brenner<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, December 4, 2018
7:39 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> <st1:personname u4:st="on"><st1:PersonName
w:st="on">fis</st1:personname></st1:PersonName> <a
href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es" moz-do-not-send=true><fis@listas.unizar.es></a><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Fis] Focusing on
Narratives. Infordomics<u5:p></u5:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=SimSun><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'>Dear Xueshan,<u5:p></u5:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=SimSun><span style='font-size:
11.0pt'><u5:p> </u5:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=SimSun><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt'>Thank you for your proposal of a domain of
Infordomics. I see it as a way of furthering the useful insights that can be
gained thorough classification, guidelines and protocols of discussion. I note
that </span></font><font size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>–</span></font><font
size=2><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt'>domics and domain have the
same Greek root </span></font><i><font size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;
font-style:italic'>‘</span></font></i><i><font size=2><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt;font-style:italic'>domos</span></font></i><i><font
size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-style:italic'>’ – </span></font></i><font
size=2><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt'>house or place, hence, the <u>place</u>
for information.<u5:p></u5:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=SimSun><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt'><u5:p> </u5:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=SimSun><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt'>However, I think that your proposed inclusion of
Semiotics as Linguistics and as a major stand-alone subject is problematic.
This is in part due to the absence, in your list, of an explicit reference to
Meaning.<u5:p></u5:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=SimSun><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt'><u5:p> </u5:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=SimSun><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt'>Sören has proposed as a subject, in another context, </span></font><font
size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>“</span></font><font size=2><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt'>Information, Meaning and Semiotics</span></font><font
size=2><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>”</span></font><font size=2><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt'>. For discussion here, I would have
preferred Information, Meaning, Semiosis and Semiotics. I see Semiosis both as
meaning and as a dynamic process of reasoning and of generating meaning. On the
other hand, Semiotics is rather a classificatory system applied to formal,
structural aspects of language. Of course, there is some overlap with meaning,
but Semiotics as most commonly used today suffers from its implied reference to
and dependence on the categories, logic and classifications of Peirce. It is
necessary to remind ourselves that the Peircean approach is only one among
others, and that more serious scientific and ontological commitments can be
made in some of the latter. <u5:p></u5:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=SimSun><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt'><u5:p> </u5:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=SimSun><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt'>The fact that Meaning in a sense in involved in all
the fields you define (psychology, communication, social information) does not
mean that it is an unscientific concept; it is that it, like information
itself, requires some additional dynamic dimensions for its description.<u5:p></u5:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=SimSun><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt'><u5:p> </u5:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=SimSun><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt'>Best wishes,<u5:p></u5:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=SimSun><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt'><u5:p> </u5:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=SimSun><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:11.0pt'>Joseph<u5:p></u5:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-GB
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><u5:p> </u5:p></span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext'> Fis [</span></font><span lang=EN-US><a
href="mailto:fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es" moz-do-not-send=true><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>mailto:fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es</span></font></a></span><font
size=2 color=black face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;color:windowtext'>] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Xueshan Yan<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> mardi, 4 décembre 2018 11:08<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> FIS Group<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Fis] Focusing on
Narratives</span></font><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
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<u5:p></u5:p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 color=black face=SimSun><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><u5:p> </u5:p><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:4.65pt'><font size=3 color=black
face=SimSun><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Dear Colleagues,<u5:p></u5:p></span><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:12.0pt;text-indent:21.0pt'><font size=3
color=black face=SimSun><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Thanks Pedro
for introducing the important topic of narrative, many views of Loet, Joseph, Karl,
of course Pedro, etc. are very profound.</span><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<u5:p></u5:p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:4.65pt;text-indent:21.0pt'><font size=3
color=black face=SimSun><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>After
accomplished my first book to investigate various information and informational
disciplines, my second book, <i><span style='font-style:italic'>Infordomics</span></i>,
will concentrate on discussing information issues in the Humanities and Social
Sciences, narrative will be its main concern. I have collected a dozen of books
about these aspects. Infordomics is a new discipline which I named. As far as
the current information concerned, technological information, biological
information, and social information are the three dominating types we have
seen. Technological information has been exclusively studied by technological
informatics (computer science, telecommunications science), biological
information has been exclusively studied by biology, and only social
information is a scattered topic in history, journalism, literature, art,
religion, anthropology, sociology, and others, we haven</span>’</font><span
lang=EN-US>t a special discipline to deal with it so far. Therefore, I think
that achievements on information for us are most likely in this field.<u5:p></u5:p></span><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:4.65pt;text-indent:21.0pt'><font size=3
color=black face=SimSun><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>As far as the
information issues we are concerning, Psychology discusses the processing of
information, communication (Communicology) discusses the transmission of
information, Semiotics (Linguistics) discusses the form of information, and
Infordomics will discuss the remaining issues of information. At the beginning,
I may concentrate on its structure problems. Psychology, Communicology,
Semiotics (Linguistics), and Infordomics (other new disciplines on information
may emerge in the future certainly.) constitute a systematic study about
social/human information.<u5:p></u5:p></span><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:4.65pt;text-indent:21.0pt'><font size=3
color=black face=SimSun><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>However, our
FIS (including our IS4SI) is at a hard time now, and we need a firm and
promising guideline and protocol.<u5:p></u5:p></span><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:18.0pt'><font size=3 color=black
face=SimSun><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Best wishes,<u5:p></u5:p></span><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:4.65pt'><font size=3 color=black
face=SimSun><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:12.0pt'>Xueshan<u5:p></u5:p></span><u1:p></u1:p><o:p></o:p></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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face=SimSun><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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