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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="DE-AT">Ten
Technical Points<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="DE-AT">Dear
Friends,<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The pandemic has blurred the common shared experience of
what is FIS. It used to be a nice forum to exchange views, meet colleagues and
every other year meet in person in a nice venue. That part is gone: only the
stars know, if and when actual congresses will take place. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Pedro’s wise leadership will introduce the next
distinguished researcher, who will direct our attention to that aspect of
information which is at the centre of their professional interest.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">There being this intermittent time between sessions, let me
pick up Howard’s suggestion to present one’s planned contribution to the next
public event. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Information is present on so many levels in our life that a
unified concept will be a tiresome work of many details and clarifications
necessary. It is evident, also underlined by the last few contributions, that a
global change of perspectives is unavoidable so that we are able to put the
idea of information in a context. The general background is what we need, the
system of agreed-on axioms, against which the peculiarities and particularities
of information can be recognised. The overall picture needs to be agreed on,
like the agreements on the heliocentric view of the world allowed more
reasonable explanations than the geocentric one, the model of space offered by
Descartes allowed detailed definitions of geometry, the relativity concept
allowed conceptualising relations between place, time, mass and speed.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Presently, we are again in a situation, where a (the)
general picture of the mental landscape needs to be redrawn, so that we can
observe information doing its work, in its many shapes, forms, realisations and
implications. Many years now we have been circling around that slimy beast,
information, encouraging each other to keep up the hunt, to make it
understandable, explainable, agreeable and measurable.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">It seems that we have indeed reached a success in our
endeavours. The concept of information is, after all, nothing weird, strange or
alien.<span> </span>Our only task is that we have to
arrange the background before we can see the animal in its natural habitat. Dim
the lights, switch on the thermal cameras and place suitable resonance sensors:
then you can see information gnawing on certainties, creating walls, burrowing
out holes and constructing connections. The habitat has to be recognised first,
in which information spends her working days and leisure nights.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Let me offer you 10 technical points which are a description
of the habitat. Other persons would formulate and group the aspects
differently: what this perspective offers you relies on, makes use of the grown
confidence among each other, that it is possible to speak to each other and
expect a cooperative intellectual attitude.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">1) Descartes. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Change the traditional concept of 3 axes constituting 1
space into a concept that consists of 3 parts. Two Descartes-type spaces are
both concurrently present. They sort of crowd each other out, being two
independently existing worlds consisting of sentences with syntaxes: <i>a=c-b, b=c-a. </i>Insomuch and insofar as a
sentence about <i>(a,b) </i>can have a
realisation in both ways of expressing it, the sentence can be a picture of
what is actually the case. (Illogical things do not exist, at least we cannot
speak about them.) Inasmuch and insofar the sentence about <i>(a,b)</i> is,
above and beyond being interpretable in both syntaxes, in agreement also to <i>a+b=c, </i>the sentence can be a picture of
something being the case in the traditional, Descartes style space, too. <span> </span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">2. Intuitions, Suspicions and Anticipations<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Logical relations can solidify (structure) out of the
Ursuppe of logical proto-relations and create a logical fact. If one has a
chance of winning <i>x </i>in a game using <i>k </i>cards, under different rules, <i>x </i>can be won in a game using <i>(k-1,k,k+1) </i>cards. The rule and the
amount determine together, how many cards are needed. The circumstances created
by logical relations can be equivalent to the existence of a physical evidence.<i> </i><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">3. In a sequence or contemporary<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The dichotomy exists in our heads only. The two sets of
properties are deeply related. The difference is caused by what we use as
background. When doing comparisons (building linear sequences), we observe the diversity
of the objects before the background of the similarity of places; when grouping
similar objects together, we observe the similarity of the objects within the
groups against the background of the diversity of the groups among each other.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">4) Periodic changes<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We live on a planet which is subject to periodic changes
(year, day, tides). The changes are each a resorting procedure. Two resorts are
a reorder. <span> </span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">5) Planes<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Each element has a sequential place in both sorts of a
reorder: the positions in the linear orders are <i>(x,y)</i> coordinates on a plane, of which the two axes are the sorts.
During a reorder, each element has 1 place on a plane.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">6) Cycles<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">A reorder is a collection of cycles. Cycles of one reorder
run concurrently. There is always 1 element of a cycle, which is in the state
[position, plane] <i>now.</i><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">7) Paths<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The members of a cycle in a reorder have places on a plane
depicting the reorder. These points can be connected and the length of the <i>run </i>of the cycle established. The <i>carry </i>of the cycle is the summation over
values <i>(a,b) </i>of the cycle. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">8) Conflicts and Compromises<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Reorders can run concurrently (and they do so, as we see organisms
adapted to periodic changes affecting our planet), as long as the constituent
cycles do not pose incompatible requirements on the elements partaking in the
cycles. There is a common currency for requirements relating to <i>(number of similarity-based-statements </i><i><span>↔</span>
number of diversity-based-statements </i><i><span>↔</span> number of objects). </i>There
exists a <i>Translation Key </i>for the
threesome. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">9) Information<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><i><span> </span></i>Information is the deviation between
expected value and observed value. This presupposes the existence of an inbuilt
slack within the numbering system. There is indeed one such. Its short mnemonic
is: <i>If 66 is in its form [it is true
about 66 that it is] 6 times 11, it has more than enough space to fit it, if 66
is understood to be one assembly of 66, it will not fit into its space. </i>Information
is basically a running measurement on the variants of interactions of members of
an assembly, how much they are similar and how much they are diverse among each
other. If space is more compartmented, fewer elements can be contemporary.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">10) Cyclic combinatorics<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We can confidently rearrange the stage background, there can
be no danger of insanity and madness if we do so, because that what we observe
doing the work of information processing in its natural habitat, is nothing but
a huge and complicated <i>truth table. </i>The
results of the tautomatic operations cannot be other than true, as they are
simply operations on natural numbers [actually, pairs of natural numbers]. The
tautomat is indeed a bit more complicated than a Boolean truth table, but it is
nevertheless a truth table. It may appear as a huge Tenguely machine, but it is
in fact only the ultimate Rubic cube, representing the states of a finite
automat. <i><span> </span></i>The software systems of a hedge fond or of
an airport are more complicated than the tautomat. The basic concept is
combinatorics, with additive elements, which can be re-translated, depending on
circumstances and combinatorics, into similarities and diversities of observed
and of expected kinds, depending on the number of objects. These are
translatable into each other. The whole system is a kind of <i>perpetuum mobile</i>, until it runs out of
either similarities or diversities or objects, and then it collapses or
explodes. In the biologic context, the hypothesis is offered, that inevitable local
breakdowns, arising from incompatibilities of requirements posed on elements of
cycles during reorders, which can no more be bridged over by compromises,
result in the ganglia in the form of an electric burst. Nature can very well
use the locality and the frequency pattern of electric discharges, each
reflecting a local breakdown of the system in the course of a reorder, as input
in a feedback loop, as signals. Systemic, predictable local breakdowns occur as
a feature of the system undergoing periodic changes: that there are
unexpectedly more of such under specific circumstances opens up a practicable
way to picturing adaptation. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Once we have a laboratory prototype of an assembly
undergoing periodic changes in a sustainable and stable manner, one can add
features of predictable local breakdowns and one has the first sensory organ
dispatching signals towards the brain.<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear colleagues, thank you for thinking through this
suggestion of a general mental landscape. Please share your thoughts.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Karl<span></span></p>
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