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<p><span lang="EN-GB">Dear All,</span></p>

<p><span lang="EN-GB">An excellent book by César A. Hidalgo titled
<i>Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies</i> encapsulates
the process of info-autopoiesis. The following is a synopsis of the book:</span></p>

<blockquote style="padding:0px;margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><p><span lang="EN-GB">What is economic growth? And why,
historically, has it occurred in only a few places? Previous efforts to answer
these questions have focused on institutions, geography, finances, and
psychology. But according to MIT's anti disciplinarian César Hidalgo,
understanding the nature of economic growth demands transcending the social
sciences and including the natural sciences of information, networks, and
complexity. To understand the growth of economies, Hidalgo argues, we first
need to understand the growth of order.</span></p>

<p><span lang="EN-GB">At first glance, the universe seems hostile
to order. Thermodynamics dictates that over time, order-or
information-disappears. Whispers vanish in the wind just like the beauty of
swirling cigarette smoke collapses into disorderly clouds. But thermodynamics
also has loopholes that promote the growth of information in pockets. Although
cities are all pockets where information grows, they are not all the same. For
every Silicon Valley, Tokyo, and Paris, there are dozens of places with
economies that accomplish little more than pulling rocks out of the ground. So,
why does the US economy outstrip Brazil's, and Brazil's that of Chad? Why did
the technology corridor along Boston's Route 128 languish while Silicon Valley
blossomed? In each case, the key is how people, firms, and the networks they
form make use of information.</span></p>

<p><span lang="EN-GB">Seen from Hidalgo's vantage, economies
become distributed computers, made of networks of people, and the problem of
economic development becomes the problem of making these computers more
powerful. By uncovering the mechanisms that enable the growth of information in
nature and society, Why Information Grows lays bare the origins of physical
order and economic growth. Situated at the nexus of information theory,
physics, sociology, and economics, this book propounds a new theory of how
economies can do not just more things, but more interesting things.</span></p></blockquote>

<p><span lang="EN-GB">I highly recommend it. </span></p>

<p><span lang="EN-GB">Kind regards,</span></p>

<p><span lang="EN-GB">Jaime</span></p>

<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 7:42 AM Pedro C. Marijuan <<a href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es">pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">
  
    
  
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    <div>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:16pt;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:0cm"><span><span lang="EN-US">Thanks for the
            comment, Howard. What you say may relate to the further
            points below.<br>
          </span></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:16pt;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:0cm"><span><span lang="EN-US"></span></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:16pt;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:0cm">
        </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:16pt;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:0cm"><i><span lang="EN-US">2. Inherent
              competitive nature of social
              communicative interrelationships. </span></i><span lang="EN-US">The clear constraints
            in the sociotype quantitative distributions,
            to which the “econophysics” of the Planckian Distribution
            Equation (PDE) may be
            applied, represent an extra argument for considering our
            communicative
            interactions as immersed in an “attention economy”. This
            seems to widely apply
            to the world of culture as well. Current approaches to the
            decay of scientific
            and cultural items are pointing in a similar direction, and
            this suggests that there
            might be a universal law of decay presumably based on a
            generalized competition
            stemming from the optimization of individual cognitive
            resources. The limited
            sociotype, actually our most important cognitive reserve,
            symbolizes the extent
            of such individual limitation.</span></p>
        <i><span lang="EN-US">4. Emergence
            of differentiated generations</span></i><span lang="EN-US">. The historical
          differentiation of generations ultimately relates to the
          imprinting of values, tastes,
          and styles of thinking taking place during youth and early
          adulthood along the
          ontogenetic development of the individual. Mostly produced out
          from two basic relational
          dimensions of the sociotype – friends and colleagues – this
          imprinting introduces
          a strong bias in the maintenance, decay, and replacement of
          cultural items. Each
          cohort would be attracted towards the new vision, tastes, and
          fashions upheld
          by the own generation. </span><br>
      <p></p>
    </div>
    <div>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:16pt;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:0cm"><i><span lang="EN-US">6. As the
            economy grows, the past recedes. </span></i><span lang="EN-US">The decay of cultural
          elements has been accelerated, and biased, with preference for
          much faster
          discarding the items of the previous generations, the contents
          of the received
          world. Factually, “doubling generations” become “halving
          generations,”
          systematically pruning the previous cultural legacy which
          already contains in
          itself the remains of previously decimated legacies. Like
          competing for writing
          on a vanishing palimpsest: each ascending generation brings
          its own new contents
          and relegates more and more of the distant past to oblivion,
          to increasingly
          outdated text books, archives, museums, etc. “As the economy
          grows, the past
          recedes”. </span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:16pt;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:0cm"><span lang="EN-US">And finally, along the
          Fourth Industrial Revolution – the so called Information Age –
          the GDP has been
          doubling on a global word scale, and far more than tripling in
          some countries.
          And this is compounded with dramatic changes in new
          communication media and new
          interconnected systems of worldwide extension. What are the
          consequences? Let
          us leave this as an open question—only stating the formidable
          ignorance of the
          own cultural past in the ascending generations.</span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"> Best wishes--Pedro</span></span></p>
      <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:16pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt"><br>
          </span></b></p>
      El 09/06/2020 a las 4:09, Howard Bloom escribió:<br>
    </div>
    <blockquote type="cite">
      
      <div style="font:10pt Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">culture provides an extension to individual memory.
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>cullture and the technologies that carl sagan calls
          extracranial storage, from writing and paintings to computer
          files.  </div>
        <div><br>
        </div>
        <div>which means that we have added tens of <span style="color:rgb(77,81,86);font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> zettabytes</span><span style="color:rgb(77,81,86);font-size:14px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> of data to human
            memory in just the last few years.</span></div>
        <div><span style="color:rgb(77,81,86);font-size:14px"><br>
          </span></div>
        <div><span style="color:rgb(77,81,86);font-size:14px">with
            warmth and oomph--howard</span><br>
          <br>
          <br>
          <div style="color:black;font-family:arial,helvetica;font-size:10pt">-----Original
            Message-----<br>
            From: Pedro C. Marijuan <a href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" target="_blank"><pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es></a><br>
            To: Krassimir Markov <a href="mailto:markov@foibg.com" target="_blank"><markov@foibg.com></a>; 'fis'
            <a href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank"><fis@listas.unizar.es></a><br>
            Sent: Mon, Jun 8, 2020 8:09 am<br>
            Subject: Re: [Fis] Cultural Acceleration?<br>
            <br>
            <div id="gmail-m_868223421121057323yiv3969426027">
              <div>
                <div>Thanks
                  Krassimir for your interest. This other link should
                  work (free access for 50 days):</div>
                <div><br clear="none">
                </div>
                <div><a href="https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1bBBC14z5HxIgJ" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1bBBC14z5HxIgJ</a></div>
                <div><br clear="none">
                </div>
                <div>Below I have
                  included two of the paper's Concluding Comments.
                  Seemingly, very few authors have explored the limits
                  of cognition. According to Booker (2004) and Yates
                  (1988) it is one of the weakest points of our whole
                  scientific system. Factically, how do we transcend the
                  limits of our individual capabilities? What collective
                  tricks --or surrogates-- have we developed? <br clear="none">
                </div>
                <div><br clear="none">
                </div>
                <div>
                  <div style="text-align:justify;line-height:16pt;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:0cm"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">3. Cognitive limitation and
                        forgetfulness underlie cultural dynamics.</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">
                      Maintenance, decay, and replacement of cultural
                      items are necessarily linked to forgetfulness and
                      to the limited cognitive capability of
                      individuals. As intuited by J.L. Borges (1944),
                      there cannot be an unlimited capability for
                      individual memory. The term <i>cognit</i>,
                      crafted by J. Fuster (2003), is proposed in order
                      to visualize an order of magnitude for such
                      individual capability. What could be the average
                      global cognits maintained by an educated
                      individual? What kinds of cognits are needed to
                      navigate in a cultural niche, or to follow a
                      particular way of life? How could this cognitive
                      limitation relate to the evolution and renewal of
                      cultures?</span></div>
                  <div style="text-align:justify;line-height:16pt;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:0cm"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">5. A new, astonishing fact in the
                        succession of generations. </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">With the
                      industrial revolution, a threshold was crossed
                      regarding the “adjacent possible” and an
                      exponential course was ignited for the economy,
                      creating a higher number of new material and
                      mental structures that have continued multiplying
                      on an exponential basis. Each passing generation
                      has been able to substantially and systematically
                      increase the whole contents of its material world,
                      adding up an entire new world to the received one.
                      But the sheer amount of new habits necessary for
                      social life in industrial and postindustrial
                      societies has forced individuals to generationally
                      absorb an almost duplicate amount of cultural
                      presences, of cognits, in their inner mental
                      spaces. <br clear="none">
                    </span></div>
                  <div style="text-align:justify;line-height:16pt;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Best wishes</span></div>
                  <div style="text-align:justify;line-height:16pt;margin-top:0cm;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:0cm"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">--Pedro<br clear="none">
                    </span></div>
                  <br clear="none">
                </div>
                <div>El 04/06/2020
                  a las 23:55, Krassimir Markov escribió:<br clear="none">
                </div>
                <blockquote type="cite"> </blockquote>
              </div>
              <div>
                <div id="gmail-m_868223421121057323yiv3969426027yqt10375">
                  <div dir="ltr">
                    <div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Calibri";font-size:14pt">
                      <div><font size="4">Dear Pedro and <span><font color="#222222">Jaime,</font></span></font></div>
                      <div><font color="#222222" size="4"><span>Thank
                            you for the interesting links.</span></font></div>
                      <div><font color="#222222" size="4"><span>Unfortunately,
                            the paper <font color="#000000">"SOCIOTYPE
                              AND CULTURAL EVOLUTION ...” is not in open
                              access and I could not read it.</font></span></font></div>
                      <div><font size="4"><span>If it is
                            possible to send me a copy I shall be very
                            grateful.</span></font></div>
                      <div><font size="4"><span>Friendly
                            greetings</span></font></div>
                      <div><font size="4"><span>Krassimir</span></font></div>
                      <div><font size="4"><span></span></font> </div>
                      <div><font size="4"><span></span></font> </div>
                      <div><font size="4"><span></span></font> </div>
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                        <div style="font:10pt tahoma;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal">
                          <div> </div>
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                          <div style="background:rgb(245,245,245)">
                            <div><font face="Calibri"><font size="4"><b>From:</b> </font></font><a title="pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect"><font face="Calibri" size="4">Pedro C. Marijuan</font></a><font face="Calibri" size="4"> </font></div>
                            <div><font face="Calibri"><font size="4"><b>Sent:</b>
                                  Thursday, June 04, 2020 12:33 PM</font></font></div>
                            <div><font face="Calibri"><font size="4"><b>To:</b>
                                </font></font><a title="fis@listas.unizar.es" href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect"><font face="Calibri" size="4">'fis'</font></a><font face="Calibri" size="4"> </font></div>
                            <div><font face="Calibri"><font size="4"><b>Subject:</b>
                                  [Fis] Cultural Acceleration?</font></font></div>
                          </div>
                        </div>
                        <div> </div>
                      </div>
                      <div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none;display:inline">
                        <div>Dear FIS Friends,</div>
                        <div>Jorge Navarro and me have just published a
                          paper entitled "SOCIOTYPE AND CULTURAL
                          EVOLUTION : The acceleration of cultural
                          change alongside industrial revolutions" <br clear="none">
                        </div>
                        <div>The link is this: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2020.104170" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" shape="rect">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2020.104170</a></div>
                        <div>And the Abstract is below.</div>
                        <div>It contains a series of hypothesis that can
                          be useful for our discussions. I will post
                          some of them in next days. Also Howard Bloom
                          has published in the same Special Issue of
                          BioSystems (Evolutionary Dynamics of Social
                          Systems) a very intriguing essay on
                          "biopolitics", about the bacterial roots of
                          the new autocracies. More will follow...<br clear="none">
                        </div>
                        <div style="text-align:justify;line-height:16pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><i><b>Abstract:
                            </b>The present work explores, from the
                            vantage point of the sociotype, the dramatic
                            acceleration of cultural change alongside
                            the successive industrial revolutions,
                            particularly in the ongoing information</i><i>
                            era. </i><i>Developed within the </i><i>genotype-phenotype-sociotype</i><i>
                          </i><i>conceptual triad, the sociotype</i><i>
                            means the average social environment that is
                            adaptively demanded by the “social brain” of
                            each individual.</i><i> For there is a
                            regularity of social interaction, centered
                            on social bonding and talking time, which
                            has been developed as an adaptive trait,
                            evolutionarily rooted, related to the
                            substantial size increase of human groups. A
                            quantitative approach to the sociotype basic
                            traits shows fundamental competitive
                            interrelationships taking place within an
                            overall “attention economy.” Approaching
                            these figures via the Planckian Distribution
                            Equation, they can be connected with many
                            other competitive processes taking place in
                            the biological, economic, and cultural
                            realms. Concerning culture, the cognitive
                            limits of the individual, which we consider
                            commensurate with the sociotype general
                            limitations, impose by themselves a strict
                            boundary on the cultural items effectively
                            handled by each individual, fostering the
                            overall competition and decay. Further, the
                            emergence of differentiated generations with
                            ample discrepancy in styles of life, social
                            aspirations, and dominant technologies would
                            represent a systematic bias in the
                            competition and replacement of cultural
                            items. Intriguingly, the cultural
                            acceleration detected in modern societies
                            alongside the successive industrial
                            revolutions, with an ostensible climax in
                            the ongoing fourth industrial revolution
                            –the information era– might be itself a
                            paradoxical consequence of the sociotype’s
                            dynamic constancy.</i></div>
                        <div style="text-align:justify;line-height:16pt;margin-bottom:6pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt">Best
                            regards--Pedro<br clear="none">
                          </span></div>
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Pedro C. Marijuán
Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group

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