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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear Colleagues<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The discussion about the Ten Principles circles mostly around
topics which deal with the higher floors of an intellectual building. To the inner
architecture, furnishing, purpose and amenities of the higher levels of an
edifice someone who works on the fundaments of the building can hardly say
anything constructive. Yet, some of the last few contributions do touch on
matters where the opinions of the geometer and the static engineer can
meaningfully contribute. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>The biosphere and the building in it<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">When working on erecting an (intellectual) edifice to house
Information and her extended relatives, friends and customers, it is surely
useful to think first about the environment and the landscape in which the
house stands, a house one wishes the tenant to be happy in. Information <i>resides </i>in actual, physical, ontological
things and facts. The <i>ontology</i> of walls, staircases, bricks and mortar
is different to the<i> metaphysical</i>
habits and preferences of the living tenant. As far as I understand leading
voices, e.g. Marcus, Pedro, Christopher et al, the task is to somehow merge the
soul and the body (to which subject Thomas Aquinas has already dedicated many
convincing words), the tenant Information doing her works on Level Pedro, where
biochemical processes are regulated, the daughter “Meaning” of the tenant
Information hiding in or behind inanimate objects on level Marcus, the artist
Information juggling terms in an artistic happening, <i>l’art pour l’art</i>,
on level Krassimir, and so forth. This is all very nice, that that the
prospective landlords have plans with the future tenant, but <b>we are not yet
there</b>. We have first to erect the fundaments, and before that, we have to
ask the geologists’ opinion about the ground and the site of the building. We
have to take a step back and consider the structure of the building and its
surroundings. The idea Information, like a Greek Goddess, has to be able to
live and do her manifold works in the building. The building has to be structurally
sound and placed on a solid fundament. The solidity of the fundament can only
be evaluated by looking at the geological facts of the valley or hill the
edifice will stand in.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Structural Soundness of the
Building<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">It is definitely good practice to
imagine oneself to be living in a space that has three dimensions: up-down,
right-left and front-back. The up-down direction we instinctively know and
recognise. (One wonders, what kind of philosophy Aristoteles, Heraclitus, Aquinas
would have evolved, if they had been born and raised in a space-ship with no
gravity.) On the <i>horizontal plane</i>,
things are less predictable. We already know, how strong the pillars need to be
to carry the weight of the edifice, to withstand <i>vertical stress.</i> We now address the inequalities present below the
surface of the building site. Here, we have to deal with the concept of <i>lateral flexibility</i>. (How many different
– maybe adjacent – geological strata are there: is it a rock, do we need sand
to fill up, wooden legs, blocks of concrete or a ponton are needed.)<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">It would be helpful, if we agreed
that whatever we place in the intellectual building, the building itself should
have sound spatial anchoring in space, in that space as we know it. Information
takes place in the space as we know it, so we better place the concept in a
spatial context.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Sound Fundament<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">It cannot be helped, the sad
truth is that the fundaments of all edifices with sound structure are
themselves fundamented in <i>a=a</i>, mostly
used in its reading of <i>a+b=c. </i>One
cannot avoid establishing the reference line when building a house. Some
customers may have built their houses without levelling it first and fill their
<i>chateaux </i>with unicorns: eventually each
of these will collapse, If trying to say something reasonable, one has the
first introductory duty to show that what one says relates to <i>a+b=c</i>. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Geological Facts, Permafrost,
Tides and Hurricanes<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">It would be short-sighted to
build a structurally sound house with sound fundaments on a piece of land that
thaws and refreezes each year. If the customer wants to build a really fine <i>chateau</i> where he can observe Information
in her natural habitat, breeding and grooming, transferring knowledge, this <i>chateau </i>should be adapted to the yearly
seasons, gather and discharge heat in harmony with the daily revolutions of the
Earth, and being biologically-minded, it should have a section which swings
with the Moon (Information works also in cahoots with the Moon, as some
spawning patterns of fish and the menstruation cycles evidence.)<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">It would be helpful, if the
intellectual edifice would be prepared to undergo periodic changes.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>No shit, Sherlock<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Your structural engineer has no
business with what you plan to do in your Habitat for Information. His
contribution does not criticise or in any way categorise the approaches of the builders
to the prospective tenant. Yet, he feels compelled to elaborate more on the
structural engineering facts of erecting such an intellectual cage, prison,
taming ground, workhouse, school, pleasure garden for Information.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In order to do the calculations,
which lead to placing the tenant in a well-built building which stands solidly
in an environment that periodically changes, it has proven a necessity to
update on the methods of structural engineering. That in itself would neither
disturb nor interest neither builder nor tenant, but it is imperative to know
beforehand what the necessary improvements in flexibility entail in
consequences. To put it short: you will not be able to use listening devices,
because the doors will always go cling-clong; you will not be able to measure
temperatures, because the window shades will keep going up and down, you will
not be able to level, because the floor may be tilting up or down, and so
forth.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The structural engineer
respectfully asks, whether that tenant Information, who drains and levels, distinguishes
and contrasts, regulates and creates puzzles, is she, the prospective tenant,
is she not like a nice old traditional countryside English ghost? A well-built
building which is flexible enough for all kinds of seasons in all kinds of
spatial and material circumstances, is quite possible to build, but it will by
its own flexibility create all kinds of spectacles, including entropy, flooding
by hormones, electric discharges and sequenced amino acids. A building such
well designed for all eventualities how Information might be residing and doing
whatever she pleases, will by itself do, by itself cause, quite a lot of
interdependent actions, of varied kinds and appearances. Maybe we are standing
already before a building Nature has built, which is by its structural nature –
necessities of structural engineering – creating all kinds of hullabaloo. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Additions to the established
code<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We had to update basic number
theory, better: the epistemology behind basic number theory. The current
version of the catechism states that <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">a line (1 line) exists, in three rectangular directions;
<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">there can be an endless number of steps be gone on the
flat Earth in one direction;<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">an egg is like any other egg;<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">there is 1 thing which is no more subdivisible;<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">it is impossible to predict the future, although we
can predict the movement of the stars<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">These points we have expanded by stating
that<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">The vertical direction be called <i>a+b, </i>the two horizontal directions be called <i>b-2a, a-2b;</i><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">We only deal with walks that are closed;<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">We color eggs with 1 of <i>d </i>colors;<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">We assemble pairs of eggs, each coloured in 1 of <i>d </i>colors, the basic unit here consists
of <i>two </i>kinds of even more basic units.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Further additions to the codex:<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">always look at the whole collection of <i>d*(d+1)/2</i>
eggs;<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">subject the collection to periodic changes (which
alter their linear sequence);<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">register which eggs create cycles with which other
eggs during a periodic change.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Reasoning behind expanding the
codex<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Particular: Leave space for heat
expansion when building steel structures. General: Keep flexibility when anticipating
periodic changes. Flexibility means there are alternatives (too short, too
long) to the target value contained in the vector of alternatives. Keep
thinking in terms of a closed set of alternatives. Flexibility is needed when
there are periodic changes. Keep thinking in terms of resequencing (=adapting
to periodic changes).<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Particular: There are <b><i>Two </i></b>strings
of genetic information which say the same, in different syntax. General: Nature
would save on the redundant copy if it was not absolutely necessary. The
message has to be necessarily expressed in two coherent forms, which can be
deviating, but if they say the same, they must agree. The description of what
is the case happens in <b>two </b>languages,
which can say the same if it is relevant, that is: true for both. One needs a <i>pair </i>of basic units.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Particular: Information that X
has died in a road accident causes emotional distress. General: Information
either translates into a material entity or is a material entity (pointer to a
record in the database, or the record itself). If it is a material entity, then
the material entity has to contain something which is its information content. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Particular: Afternoon in Autumn, waxing
Moon dimly visible. General: We live in a world subject to periodic changes.
Our counting system has to adapt to our observations. We have to count in terms
of periodic recurrences. Requirements towards the individual change if a
general optimisation takes place due to effects of periodic changes. Let us
investigate at first the conflict solving mechanisms arising from <i>two </i>different requirements (which is the
right place now?) <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Workability of the extended
toolset of structural engineering<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The proposal is to erect the
edifice in accordance with the remarks of the structural engineer. These are:<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">Think in terms of change, one snapshot does not tell
the story;<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">Use <i>pairs </i>of
logical units as members of a <i>cohort </i>of
logical units; (the cohorts are named colloquially ‘logical primitives’, name ©
Marcus, and are defined in <a href="http://oeis.org/A235647">oeis.org/A235647</a> deictically);<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">Subject the cohort to periodic changes;<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">Register the cycles each individual logical primitive will
enter into, in dependence of two different requirements that circumstances may
pose during periodic changes;<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">Extract the information content from each of the
cycles;<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">Keep not neglecting that slack, flexibility, reserve
which is the information content of each of the cycles.</span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><u>Explanation: </u>The
information content of a cycle is the deviation between expectation and what is
the case. The deviation is an artefact coming out of doing <i>two </i>kinds of counting: how <i>uniform
</i>is the cycle and how <i>diverse </i>it
is. Relative to how many uniform planar steps the primitives of the cycle do,
they are <i>{not enough, fine, too much</i>} diverse. Relative to how many
degrees of diversity is there among the primitives, they do <i>{not enough, fine, too much}</i> equally
spaced steps. These are numeric values which are subject to the rules of addition.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Adjacent<span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Learned friends may find the
information useful, that there exists a kind of adjacency which has not been
widely discussed yet. It could be that this understanding of the term ‘adjacent’
is helpful in their deliberations, whether Information will exercise her charms
only on adjacent subjects of her powers. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 36pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span style="font-size:10pt">Let me give an example: the nice young couple <i>(Diana, Frederick) </i>live among other
noble logical primitives. They are used to being neighboured once to <i>(Conny,
whoever)</i> and <i>(Emily, whoever)</i>, when they line up according to her
preferences, and once to <i>(whoever, Esteban)</i> and <i>(whoever, Gregory)</i>,
if the line-up is done on the succession of the male names. (These two,
officially recognised, line-ups are believed to be something with a totemistic
strength, although they are by no means more valuable or prominent than any
other sequences resulting from a series of comparisons.) The happy folk in the
village of Informia – a cohort of logical primitives and no one else - are also
well versed in the techniques of lining up according to changes necessitated by
the season, the lunar phase and the time of the day. Furthermore, they are also
well prepared for reactions needed in times of Plagues. They have Task Groups in
which they execute reorganising, from the present order to the order required
by the current Plague. Our friends team up with (build cycles, of which are
members) <i>(Adele, Cesar)</i>, <i>(Emily, Hugo), (Barbara, Otto), etc.</i> in
times of a Plague of Locusts, and they team up with <i>(Barbara, Martin),
(Helene, Isaac), (Barbara, Jonathan), etc</i>. in times of a Plague of Frogs. There
is an accidental camaraderie among the primitives. It is potentially always
there, a property of the primitive. Whether and when the capacity of linkage
will be actuated, depends on the periodic and at times aperiodic changes.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">‘Adjacent’ can very well refer to
a neighbourhood relation in a cycle. The index pointing to a member of a cycle
enumerates as well the <i>sequential number</i> of the element among the
members of the cycle and as well carries the <i>commutative symbol</i> of that
element belonging to this cycle, being in a fashion aggregated or aggregatable
in that context. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>The general idea</b> is, that a
choice in the methods of counting reveals Information to be an artefact of
counting. By counting consistently in <i>two
</i>algorithms, both based in <b>N</b>, we
can actually entrap her. We have actually already entrapped her material extent,
therefore some scent of her presence. The building will be full of life.<span></span></p>
</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Am So., 20. Sept. 2020 um 16:08 Uhr schrieb Xueshan Yan <<a href="mailto:yxs@pku.edu.cn">yxs@pku.edu.cn</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="ZH-CN"><div class="gmail-m_5025644592360616482WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear Dai,</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:等线" lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I read most of your posts in the past decades and agree with your views about the investigation of information. Fortunately, we can share the different ideas by FIS currently and this channel was not partitioned by the mentioned firewall temporarily.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best wishes,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Xueshan<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:等线;color:black" lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border-color:rgb(225,225,225) currentcolor currentcolor;border-style:solid none none;border-width:1pt medium medium;padding:3pt 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> <a href="mailto:fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank">fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es</a> <<a href="mailto:fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank">fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dai Griffiths<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, September 20, 2020 8:58 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank">fis@listas.unizar.es</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Fis] The 10 Principles--Replies<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">I am entirely in agreement with Loet that<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">"As you know, I am against this program. Reducing society to a meta-biology reduces the social sciences to a commentary. They can be <i>sui generis. </i>The application of biological systems theory to society (sociobiology) to be resisted. ... The rule of law cannot be reduced to biology."<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">Nevertheless, I am still tempted to think that there are patterns that connect across different fields. For example, since the introduction of social media something has happened to patterns of communication, to shared meaning making, and to politics. I would think that, in addition to the social phenomena which lead people to behave in one way or another in a particular culture or society, there are also relevant rules that we can discover about the dynamics of communication which are applicable in a wider context. For example the ideas of variety management, amplification and attenuation help in understanding the control structures which different societies create (whether this is a team of Facebook moderators, or the Great Firewall of China). If this is not the case, then we are forced to believe that these social changes are unrelated to the development of mobile computing, which I don't find credible.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">Mapping these kinds of connections was the ambition behind the development of those involved in cybernetics and their fellow travelers. To me, this is a more acceptable program than "Reducing society to a meta-biology".<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span lang="EN-US">Dai<u></u><u></u></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">On 20/09/2020 09:41, Loet Leydesdorff wrote:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"><div id="gmail-m_5025644592360616482xbbbecd113fb2419"><blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);border-style:none none none solid;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 8pt;margin:2.25pt 0cm 5pt 3.75pt"><blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);border-style:none none none solid;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 8pt;margin:5pt 0cm 5pt 3.75pt"><div><div id="gmail-m_5025644592360616482xca2c22c2beb146f0940cb13fdc5ac4a1"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt;line-height:14pt"><i><span lang="EN-GB">This may be the case for biological evolution, but communication technologies enable us to include non-adjacent distinctions. </span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">--Nope. As said above, we may only imply that those media or techno info are non-local only AFTER THEIR CARRIERS HAVE "TOUCHED" OUR RECEPTORS and we have built thousands and thousands of micro-distinctions flowing bottom-up and top-down that produce a meaning and finally they make us say, "oh, yes, this is non-local info about the US politics". It may take barely an instant, and all of those processes are transparent for us.<u></u><u></u></span></p></blockquote><div id="gmail-m_5025644592360616482xbbbecd113fb2419"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Dear Pedro, <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div id="gmail-m_5025644592360616482xbbbecd113fb2419"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div id="gmail-m_5025644592360616482xbbbecd113fb2419"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">It seems to me that you reason most about information carriers, but not about information. The carriers can also transform the information. For example, the receptors can be expected to filter.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);border-style:none none none solid;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 8pt;margin:2.25pt 0cm 5pt 3.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">[...]<br><br><u></u><u></u></span></p><blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);border-style:none none none solid;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 8pt;margin:5pt 0cm 5pt 3.75pt"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14pt"><span lang="EN-GB">By the way, curiously "channel" in the Shanonian scheme represents also that which brings information to the adjacency of the receiver. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt;line-height:14pt"><span lang="EN-GB">The commonality exhibits, in my opinion, the mathematical character. Once one abstracts from materiality, a mathematical definition becomes unavoidable. Only math (and logic) can be used across domains. Do you have such a definition, equivalent to the Shannon H?</span><span lang="EN-US"><u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">--Interesting, but do you think the Shannonian metrics is the only thing in common?<u></u><u></u></span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">There is a number of these measures. Shannon-type is relatively simple and elaborate. <i>Essentia non sint multiplicanda. </i>The alternatives are not essentially different.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div id="gmail-m_5025644592360616482xbbbecd113fb2419"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div id="gmail-m_5025644592360616482xbbbecd113fb2419"><blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);border-style:none none none solid;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 8pt;margin:2.25pt 0cm 5pt 3.75pt"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">But my point revolves about a better understanding of sharing a life-cycle (& its experiential load--a culture for instance) as a powerful level-playing field in social and biological communication. It dissolves eons of complexity.<u></u><u></u></span></p></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">As you know, I am against this program. Reducing society to a meta-biology reduces the social sciences to a commentary. They can be <i>sui generis. </i>The application of biological systems theory to society (sociobiology) to be resisted. For example, we don't wish the strongest to be the fittest. The rule of law cannot be reduced to biology.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div id="gmail-m_5025644592360616482xbbbecd113fb2419"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div id="gmail-m_5025644592360616482xbbbecd113fb2419"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Best, <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div id="gmail-m_5025644592360616482xbbbecd113fb2419"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Loet<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div id="gmail-m_5025644592360616482xbbbecd113fb2419"><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"><br><br><u></u><u></u></span></p><pre><span lang="EN-US">_______________________________________________<u></u><u></u></span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US">Fis mailing list<u></u><u></u></span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:Fis@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank">Fis@listas.unizar.es</a><u></u><u></u></span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis" target="_blank">http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis</a><u></u><u></u></span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US">----------<u></u><u></u></span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US">INFORMACIÓN SOBRE PROTECCIÓN DE DATOS DE CARÁCTER PERSONAL<u></u><u></u></span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US">Ud. recibe este correo por pertenecer a una lista de correo gestionada por la Universidad de Zaragoza.<u></u><u></u></span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US">Puede encontrar toda la informaci</span>ó<span lang="EN-US">n sobre como tratamos sus datos en el siguiente enlace: <a href="https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas" target="_blank">https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas</a><u></u><u></u></span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US">Recuerde que si est</span>á<span lang="EN-US"> suscrito a una lista voluntaria Ud. puede darse de baja desde la propia aplicaci</span>ó<span lang="EN-US">n en el momento en que lo desee.<u></u><u></u></span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://listas.unizar.es" target="_blank">http://listas.unizar.es</a><u></u><u></u></span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US">----------<u></u><u></u></span></pre></blockquote><pre><span lang="EN-US">-- <u></u><u></u></span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US">-----------------------------------------<u></u><u></u></span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US">Professor David (Dai) Griffiths<u></u><u></u></span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US">SKYPE: daigriffiths<u></u><u></u></span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US">Phones (please don't leave voice mail)<u></u><u></u></span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US"> UK Mobile +44 (0)7491151559<u></u><u></u></span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US"> Spanish Mobile: + 34 687955912<u></u><u></u></span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US"><u></u> <u></u></span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US">email<u></u><u></u></span></pre><pre><span lang="EN-US"> <a href="mailto:dai.griffiths.1@gmail.com" target="_blank">dai.griffiths.1@gmail.com</a><u></u><u></u></span></pre></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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