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<DIV><FONT size=4>Dear Marcus and FIS Colleagues,<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>From my point of view the main choice which has to be made in
the very beginning is between two opposite cases:</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>1. <B><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>Information
is a primary concept</SPAN></B></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><B><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'>2.
</SPAN></B><B><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
style='face: "Times' New roman?>Information is a secondary
concept</FONT></SPAN></B></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>This is fundamental choice which cause all further
work.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><BR>As I already had pointed, if information is a primary
concept than no theories about information can be created. One may create many
other theories for EVERYTHING but not for information. Only infinite variety of
examples may be created but not fruitful theory and discussions. For instance,
the religious approach belong to this class.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><BR>The second case gives us possibility to create theories
ABOUT information starting from one or more other primary concepts.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>I prefer the second case. The primary concepts I have used are
Entity and Relationship (<A
title=http://www.foibg.com/ijita/vol14/ijita14-1-p01.pdf
href="http://www.foibg.com/ijita/vol14/ijita14-1-p01.pdf">http://www.foibg.com/ijita/vol14/ijita14-1-p01.pdf</A>),
and Reflection as a result of interaction between entities.<BR><BR>To illustrate
the difference between two cases, let see the first 5 principles of Pedro in the
two variants: </FONT></DIV>
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align=center><B><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman">1. Information is a primary
concept</FONT></SPAN></B></P></TD>
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align=center><B><SPAN
style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman">2. Information is a secondary
concept</FONT></SPAN></B></P></TD></TR>
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<P class=MsoNormal
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman">1. Information is information, neither matter nor
energy.</FONT></SPAN></P></TD>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman">1. Information is a class of reflections in
material entities. Not every reflection is information. <B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Only subjectively comprehended
reflections are information. Not comprehended reflections are
data.</I></B></FONT></SPAN></P></TD></TR>
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<P class=MsoNormal
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman">2. Information is comprehended into structures,
patterns, messages, or flows.</FONT></SPAN></P></TD>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman">2. Reflections may be comprehended as structures,
patterns, messages, flows, etc.</FONT></SPAN></P></TD></TR>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman">3. Information can be recognized, can be measured,
and can be processed (either computationally or
non-computationally).</FONT></SPAN></P></TD>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman">3. Reflections can be recognized, can be measured,
and can be processed (either computationally or
non-computationally).</FONT></SPAN></P></TD></TR>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman">4. Information flows are essential organizers of
life's self-production processes--anticipating, shaping, and mixing up
with the accompanying energy flows.</FONT></SPAN></P></TD>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman">4. Reflection flows are essential organizers of
life's self-production processes--anticipating, shaping, and mixing up
with the accompanying energy flows.</FONT></SPAN></P></TD></TR>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman">5. Communication/information exchanges among
adaptive life-cycles underlie the complexity of biological organizations
at all scales.</FONT></SPAN></P></TD>
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style='FONT-FAMILY: ; COLOR: ; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><FONT
face="Times New Roman">5. Communication is based on special kind of
reflections created by one entity and reflected by a second one. This way,
the reflections comprehended as information by the first entity may be
secondary reflected by the second one. Such information exchanges among
adaptive life-cycles underlie the complexity of biological organizations
at all scales.</FONT></SPAN></P></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>I am afraid that many of FIS members prefer the first case.
<BR>I do not know who prefer the second one beside me. If such ones exist,
please write to me and we will continue the productive common work.
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Friendly greetings</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Krassimir</FONT></DIV>
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