<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Message: 1<br>
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2019 12:02:45 +0300<br>
From: "Krassimir Markov" <<a href="mailto:markov@foibg.com" target="_blank">markov@foibg.com</a>><br>
To: "Malcolm Dean" <<a href="mailto:malcolmdean@gmail.com" target="_blank">malcolmdean@gmail.com</a>>, "FIS"<br>
<<a href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank">fis@listas.unizar.es</a>><br>
Subject: [Fis] Please, be more realistic!<br><br>
Dear Malcolm,<br>
"religious, mythical or esoteric kinds of thoughts" belong to the class of believing.<br>
Believing is nice psychological condition but not constructive and useful.<br>
For instance, I believe that I am a rich man, but unfortunately in real I am not!<br>
Because of this I could not take part in very interesting FIS and IS4IS conferences!<br>
Please, be more realistic!<br>
Friendly greetings<br>
Krassimir<br><br></blockquote></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">My point is that even if your bias is accepted as absolutely true, just for one moment, that does not excuse any definition of Information from having to explain their origins and functions.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Dismissing them as beliefs, psychological conditions, and "not constructive and useful" is not itself "constructive or useful." It is your opinion and worldview.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">If you can explain how these kinds of thoughts originate and function, then you have the beginning of scientific dialogue. Otherwise, not. And such an explanation, for the purpose of this forum, should be limited to the nature of Information, and not other hypotheses such as we can find in Anthropology and Evolutionary Psychology.</div></div><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Malcolm Dean</b></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Editor: </font><a href="https://www.amazon.com/How-Information-Creates-Its-Observer/dp/1536152862/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=vladimir+s.+lerner&link_code=qs&qid=1558730628&s=gateway&sr=8-2" target="_blank">How Information Creates Its Observer (Lerner 2019)</a></div><div><i>Member</i>, Higher Cognitive Affinity Group, BRI<br><i>Research Affiliate</i>, <a href="http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/Malcolm_Dean" target="_blank">Human Complex Systems, UCLA</a><div><br></div></div><div><span style="color:rgba(0,0,0,0.87);font-family:"Roboto Slab","Times New Roman",serif;font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(250,250,250)"><i>So it is necessary for you to be abreast of everything; on the one hand, the unshakable heart of well-rounded truth, and, on the other, the opinions of mortals, in which there is no true conviction.</i> (Parmenides, Fragment 24)</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>