<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear James,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 1 Jul 2020, at 17:00, Jaime Cardenas-Garcia <<a href="mailto:jfcardenasgarcia@gmail.com" class="">jfcardenasgarcia@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class=""><span class="">Dear Bruno,</span></p><p class=""><span class="">The fundamental problem
of information may be characterized very simply as: How do we become what we become?
A question that we can pose to our parents as well, and so on. At one point in
time we were a single cell, now we are a multi-cell organism. More importantly,
how did we become two cells? If you solve this problem, from a fundamental </span><span lang="EN-GB" class="">perspective, even using an </span><span class="">Indexical Digital Mechanism explanation</span><span lang="EN-GB" class="">, then I believe you have solved the fundamental problem of
information. </span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div>I would say that this problem has been solved by the second recursion theorem of Kleene, at least for the third person (3p) perspective. The basic idea is simple, and consists to apply a duplicator to a duplicator. Take the simple duplicator D. We have Dx = xx for all x. Then DD gives DD, so DD is a simple duplicator.</div><div>I guess you know this, and perhaps to allude to the question of the first person experience in such duplication. I illustrate it with some thought experience. Assuming Digital Mechanism, there is a level of description of my body such that I will survive with my body being substituted by a digital body, emulating the functional role of my part at that level. In that case I am duplicable at that level. I can be “read and cut” in Helsinki (say), and reconstituted in Moscow and Washington (where the information read in Helsinki has been sent). </div><div><br class=""></div><div>What can I expect when I am in Helsinki, prior to the read-cut and copy? </div><div><br class=""></div><div>Imagine that in Helsinki, I am told that, both in Washington and in Moscow, a cup of coffee will be offered to me. Then, in Helsinki I can (assuming that not only Mechanism is true, but I believe it to be true) predict with certainty that I will have a cup of coffee, as this happens in both continuations. For the same reason, I can predict in Helsinki that I will see only one city (Washington or Moscow but not both), as in both cities, any guy among those “owning” the reconstituted bodies will feel to live (1p view) to be in only city. So I can predict with certainty that I will get a cup of coffee in one city, but I cannot be sure of which one. If I predict Moscow, I know that the one in Washington will admit that he was wrong, for example. A prediction is considered as successful if it is verified in both cities (in all continuations of me, where me is the owner(s) of my personal memory (up to some point). This means also that when, after the reconstitution, I localise myself and discover in which city I feel to be, I get one (first person) bit of information (Shannon information). </div><div><br class=""></div><div>So, self-duplication + the first-person/third person distinction explains where some information came from. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>Now, what is not well known or taught (when taught at all), the arithmetical reality (the so called standard model of arithmetic, that is the mathematical structure (N, 0, s, +, *)) generates and executes all computations, including the infinitely many computations going through my (indexical) state. This is eventually what will explain where the “illusion” of a physical reality will come from: it emerges from the statistics on all computation going through my relative state. The math confirms this, as we get quantum logics for those first person indeterminacy. </div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">Have you ever wondered how you came to
stand on the shoulder of giants, and become a giant yourself that uses the </span><span class="">Indexical Digital
Mechanism explanation</span><span lang="EN-GB" class="">? Some of us may stand on the
shoulder of little people and we need a lot of little people to get to the
level of giants standing on the shoulder of giants. But then again, what are we
here to do anyway.</span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>To assume Digital Mechanism, we need to assume a bit of elementary arithmetic, if only to define precisely what we mean by digital machine (that is, to accept the Church Turing thesis).</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Now, we can prove that that elementary arithmetic cannot be derived from less. By elementary arithmetic I mean here classical logic + the axioms:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">My point is simply, we (living beings) are
the ones that do all of this creation by means of a process of info-autopoiesis.
</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div>I am quite OK with this, if by “we” we mean all the universal numbers in arithmetic. We might say that they are not “living”, but they are the “point” through which a consciousness flux go, and can differentiate, leading the many information full histories.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="">Whatever it is that we want to do or talk about, including an </span><span class="">Indexical Digital
Mechanism explanation, we do it by info-autopoiesis. </span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div>Yes. I said this to Varella, and I heard on that occasion that he knew about the work of Judson Webb (my own work can be sees as a continuation of the work of Webb, on the positive role that Gödel’s incompleteness theorem plays in Mechanist philosophy). </div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class=""><span class="">This email, an asynchronous communication
process that we are engaging in, is an info-autopoietic process. Have you ever
wondered what is to the left of to the right of the first diagram in Shannon’s <i class="">A
Mathematical Theory of Communication</i> paper? It is a living being, that
through a process of info-autopoiesis composes the syntactical message that
gets composed or interpreted. So, how does that process of info-autopoiesis
work?</span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>I think that the universal machine (+ some inductive ability/axioms) already explains this through its canonical “theology”. The machine explains that she cannot explain where the universal machinery (like elementary arithmetic) comes from, but can explain where consciousness and qualia come from, and how the appearances of a physical reality comes from and why it remains relatively stable (the most complex thing here).</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class=""><span class="">Like Keynes once said, ‘in the long run, we are all dead’. This in reference to a moribund capitalist system in the midst of the Great Depression. This
pandemic is bringing closure much closer than we would like to admit. </span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>The problem does not come from “capitalism” (free-market), but from the absence of capitalism due to the money based on lies, which kill the competition and replace the free-market with an economy driven by the crime, once the liars get the power. </div><div><br class=""></div><div>The problem is in the lies, in the mis-information, and that problem arise already in arithmetic: universal machine lies all the time, and arithmetic is full of lies, and it is unclear if that is not needed at some level for life and consciousness to develop/differentiate.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>The second recursion theorem, and incompleteness warns us that there is no cure for that, and it is part of the game of life. The pandemics reminds us our fragility, and the interest in collaborating instead of making money on disease and catastrophe (like with prohibition).</div><div><br class=""></div><div>We will not die. Dying is the nature authoritarian argument, and it is not valid (!). It is a local illusion, a sort of local and relative amnesia. We cannot die from the first person perspective, because there are infinitely many computations going through us, and we always feel like surviving. I guess the brain is more use to hide and filter information, than to create it.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Best,</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Bruno</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class=""><span class="">Kind regards,</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Jaime</span><span lang="EN-GB" class=""></span></p>
<br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 8:35 AM Bruno Marchal <<a href="mailto:marchal@ulb.ac.be" class="">marchal@ulb.ac.be</a>> wrote:<br class=""></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"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">Dear Jaime,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 30 Jun 2020, at 17:33, Jaime Cardenas-Garcia <<a href="mailto:jfcardenasgarcia@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">jfcardenasgarcia@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class=""><span class="">Dear Bruno and Christophe,</span></p><p class=""><span class="">Let me begin by defining
‘intrinsic’ from Merriam-Webster (<a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intrinsic" target="_blank" class="">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intrinsic</a>)</span><span lang="EN-GB" class=""><br class=""></span></p><span lang="EN-GB" class=""><div class=""><span id="gmail-m_-5266444246125439114cid:ii_kc23937i0" class=""><image.png></span><br class=""></div></span><p class=""><span class="">I would venture to say
that definitions 1a, 2a and 2b seem applicable. Also, organisms/living beings are
not machines, </span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="">This depends on your (metaphysical, or cognitive-science-theoretical) assumption. I assume Indexical Digital Mechanism (which is already needed to make sense of Darwin). From this I have proven that we cannot assume more than elementary arithmetic in metaphysics (Pythagorus was right). From elementary arithmetic, we can derive the existence of the universal numbers, and explains why they necessarily develop belief in a “physical universe”. The proof is constructive and can bestsellers tested? It is enough to compare the physics “in the head of the universal machine/number” and what we observe. The physics “in the head of the machine” which has been derived from arithmetic is the quantum mechanics of Everett-Griffith-Omnès-Hartle-Gell’man, so, in that sense, nature has confirmed the immaterialist pythagorean-like consequence of the digital mechanist hypothesis, … until now.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">To grasp this, it is important to understand that the universal Turing machine is an arithmetical notion, entirely definable using only the symbol s (successor), + and * with the logical symbol. No physics is assumed here, and eventually, physics is explained by this.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class=""><span class="">since machines and other artificial things (including science,
number theory, Gödel-Löb-Solovay self-reference logic, etc.) are created by
living beings. </span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="">OK? I see that you assume some physical universe “out there”. I do not, and I can explain why this is impossible once we assume (weak) version of Mechanism. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class=""><span class="">The origin of organisms/living beings has not been ascertained,
except that we are here and have ‘evolved’ from our earliest origins. So, this
is the basis for what is described in the paper. </span></p><p class=""><span class="">It goes without saying
that some believe that information is a third quantity of the Universe, and that
information exists in the environment for the taking, such as information in
the Genome. </span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think we must distinguish the third person notion of information, for which we can develop theories (Shannon, Kolmogorov, quantum information theory, … (there are many such theories), and first person information, for which we can extract a phenomenology, and explain its qualitative (but non rationally justifiable) aspects.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you take the Theaetetus theory of knowledge to define the soul (aka the first person), that is by “provability-and-truth”, the incompleteness theorem enforces that it will obey a S4 logic (the traditional theory of knowledge), but with more axioms, and with an explanation of why the machine, despite knowing that they have a soul, already knows that they cannot prove it, or even ascribe any third person description to it. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class=""><span class="">These beliefs are based on postulates and seem ingrained in the
scientific belief system. </span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The big novelty with (digital) mechanism is that physics is no more the fundamental science, but is reduced to elementary arithmetic (aka computer science, aka information theory). This is usually hard to swallow, as we live in the christian (materialism) era.</div><div class="">Most people have forgotten that the original doubt of the ancient thinker of antiquity was not about God (which is by definition the Reality), but about the physical universe. Is the physical universe what exist, or is the physical universe only the border or shadow of a bigger invisible reality? With Mechanism, the answer is that the physical reality is a first person plural construct coming from the way the arithmetical reality is seen from inside by its internal creatures (the universal numbers).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The physical is but one mode of self-reference, among all those that incompleteness distinguishes.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are 8 main one:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> - p<span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span>(Truth, the One, God, Reality, …)</div><div class="">- []p<span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span>(provability, belief, intellect, mind, …)</div><div class="">- []p & p<span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span>(Soul, first person, knowledge, …)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- []p & <>t<span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span>(intelligible Matter, quanta)</div><div class="">- []p & <>t & p<span style="white-space:pre-wrap" class=""> </span>(sensible matter, qualia)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Those are eight! (Three of those modes is still split in two by the incompleteness phenomenon).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class=""><span class="">There is also the general belief based on postulates that
organisms/living beings are agents. This paper does not rely on any of these
beliefs to argue its case. </span></p><p class=""><span class="">The fundamental
problem of information is, to identify how a human organism, in a
self-referential process, develops from a state in which its knowledge of the
human-organism-in-its-environment is almost non-existent to a state in which
the human organism not only recognizes the existence of the environment but
also sees itself as part of the human-organism-in-its-environment system.</span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hmm… well, eventually this is a bit of an illusion (with the mechanist hypothesis).</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class=""><span class="">Norbert Wiener states that
‘information is information, not matter or energy.’ So, information is not
energy, but neither is it a third quantity of the Universe. </span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div class="">Indeed. With mechanism, energy itself is a first person plural way top classify first person information. The information itself comes from the arithmetical truth. It is important to understand that such an arithmetical truth is not definable, nor axiomatisable. Now, energy does share some quantitative aspect with information, and those notion remains related, but cannot be identified. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class=""><span class="">As Christophe implies
‘a difference which makes a difference’ might relate to an energy difference or
variation, but it is an energy difference or variation to which the organisms/living
beings learn to ascribe meaning to through a process of info-autopoiesis. Meaning
is not imposed either by the environment or externally to the organisms/living
beings.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">A fundamental approach
may lead to high level characterizations.</span></p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What you say might make sense in the mechanist theory, but eventually, with mechanism, we must derive the theory of matter from number self-reference (or from any Turing complete theory, I use number only because most people are familiar with them, … in my course I use the combinators of Shoenfinkel-Curry-Feys…).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Of course, mechanism might be false, but I have not yet seen any evidence. I derived Quantum Mechanics when I was young, and proudly consider that I did refute Mechanism … until I realise that the physicists were already there.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I think we must distinguish third person notion of information, and the subjective (meaningful) way the universal number/machine can classify the information, making it psychological, physical, theological etc. (which here are all phenomenologically extracted from incompleteness).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This of course is closer to Plato than the current Aristotelian Paradigm and its material ontological commitment.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bruno</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><p class=""><br class=""></p><p class=""><span class="">Jaime </span></p>
<br class=""></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr" dir="ltr">On Tue, Jun 30, 2020 at 9:28 AM Christophe Menant <<a href="mailto:christophe.menant@hotmail.fr" target="_blank" class="">christophe.menant@hotmail.fr</a>> wrote:<br class=""></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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Different characterizations of information (like attributive vs subjective, or primary vs secondary) can indeed be introduced. But I’m afraid that these high-level characteristics keep us far away from the basic reason of being of information, and also far
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* Information exists only by and for agents that manage the meaning associated to it. Without its associated meaning, information has no reason to exist.<br class="">
* Information can be defined as an energy variation that conveys meaning or participates to meaning generation for an agent (the meaning leading to an action by the agent brings us close to the definition “a difference that makes a difference”). Such definition
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<b class="">Envoyé :</b> lundi 29 juin 2020 08:14<br class="">
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<div style="font:10pt tahoma;font-size-adjust:none;font-stretch:normal" class=""><font face="Calibri" size="4" class="">The first one is based on understanding that the information exists independently of consciousness and it is everywhere. This is so called “Attributive paradigm”.</font></div>
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<b class=""><i class="">Only </i></b><b class=""><i class=""><span style="color:red" class="">subjectively comprehended </span>
</i></b><b class=""><i class="">reflections are information. Not comprehended reflections are data.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></i></b></p><p class=""><b class=""><font color="#ff0000" class="">Why subjectively? Why “data” instead of information.</font><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></b></p><p class=""><b class=""><font color="#ff0000" class=""><br class="">
</font></b></p><p class=""><b class=""><font color="#ff0000" class="">It seems that there can be mutual information between information and reflections? -:)</font></b></p>
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into structures, patterns, messages, or flows. <font color="#ff0000" class="">What do you mean with “comprehended”? Who is comprehending?</font><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
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<span style="color:red" class="">mixing </span>up (vague) with the accompanying energy flows.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
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<div class=""><font size="4" class="">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 class=""><font size="4" class="">1. <b class="">Information is a primary concept</b></font></div>
<div class=""><font size="4" class=""><b class="">2. </b><b class="">Information is a secondary concept</b></font></div>
<div class=""><font size="4" class="">This is fundamental choice which cause all further work.</font></div>
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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>
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The second case gives us possibility to create theories ABOUT information starting from one or more other primary concepts.</font></div>
<div class=""><font size="4" class="">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="https://eur06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foibg.com%2Fijita%2Fvol14%2Fijita14-1-p01.pdf&data=02%7C01%7C%7C9ed9231ac5754f5cc60708d81bf3c63d%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637290081095248062&sdata=CeXWCgoqHNTUcDRzwkcjL8Dc4KOtJ2VwnX5U4r27kOo%3D&reserved=0" target="_blank" class="">http://www.foibg.com/ijita/vol14/ijita14-1-p01.pdf</a>),
and Reflection as a result of interaction between entities.<br class="">
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To illustrate the difference between two cases, let see the first 5 principles of Pedro in the two variants:
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<b class=""><font face="Times New Roman" class="">1. Information is a primary concept</font></b></p>
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<b class=""><font face="Times New Roman" class="">2. Information is a secondary concept</font></b></p>
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<td width="426" valign="top" style="border-width:medium 1pt 1pt medium;border-style:none solid solid none;border-color:currentColor windowtext windowtext currentColor;padding:0cm 5.4pt" class=""><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:normal" class=""><font face="Times New Roman" class="">1. Information is a class of reflections in material entities. Not every reflection is information.
<b class=""><i class="">Only subjectively comprehended reflections are information. Not comprehended reflections are data.</i></b></font></p>
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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></p>
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<div class=""><font size="4" class="">I am afraid that many of FIS members prefer the first case. <br class="">
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 class=""><font size="4" class="">Friendly greetings</font></div>
<div class=""><font size="4" class="">Krassimir</font></div>
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