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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>Dear Friends and Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>Here are my summaries of the last responses to the ‘New Year
Lecture’. The overall conclusion I will produce shortly will be based on
all responses received to date. I hope that many of you intend, as I do, to
continue the discussion on on your own. It is ‘closed’ only in this
formal sense.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>Joseph<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>F.1 23.01 The note of Krassimir was useful in delineating a role
for mathematical and categorial models in information theories, without excluding
other forms of analysis<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>F.2 23.01 It is interesting that the subject of art continued
to attract comments in relation to disinformation. But I think intentionality
again permits a distinction between ‘art and anti-art’. Thus, in an
offline comment, it was said that the ‘<st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:State> art world’, has as much to do
with art as most ‘religious’ institutions with religion, that is,
nothing. Some individuals in that world may be exceptions. This is another way
of saying that what is important in art cannot be circumscribed in a single
‘definition’. This is true of most discussions of
‘information, on this list and elsewhere.</span></font><font size=2
face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Lucida Sans Unicode"'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>F.3 24.02 In social discourse, are there areas which are not
grey? The analysis of intent is any case only a start. Assuming self-knowledge
and honesty, misinformation occurs by accident and is therefore ‘excused’.
As for statements is about oneself or others, both can function as
disinformation. Perhaps you could clarify this, Dai, by explaining your term
which appeared as MANSPLAINING in your note. What makes Dai’s meaning a
little obscure to me is that it talks about misinformation. If we say: acceptability
and disinformation do not necessarily go hand in hand, let us look at the case
where they do. Then my argument of intent holds: acceptability is a tool in the
hands of the disinformer.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=Default><font size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>F.4 24.01 Thanks to Yixin for his clear restatement of the basics
on information science. His division of information of information into
ontological and epistemological should be a subject for further discussion in
itself. In this view, the presence of disinformation is difficult if not
impossible to determine analytically. Hence his plea that to deal with </span></font><font
size=2 face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'>disinformation, we must “rely heavily
on collective human efforts worldwide in the fields of honesty, responsibility,
ethics and morality.” This is one such effort.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
lang=EN-GB style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans Unicode";
color:navy'>F.5 24.01 Gordana has effectively continued this thread with her careful
comments on Yixin’s note, without talking directly to the theme of
disinformation. We are very much here in the domain of science, and for a
moment, we are away from disinformation. The relief is almost palpable.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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