<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">The Ultimate Rhetorical Exercise: The Beard
of the Emperor (220428)</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="EN-GB">Dear Colleagues,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Part
I.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB">1. Augurs promising</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">As was remarked before, this group has
matured into an interactional community which comes close to the ideal of friendly
exchanges of advanced thoughts. We have open minds, talents, are interested and
possess of time. This is an artistic group which uses humour as one of its
communicative tools. The scenery is set for an unusualy, really deep discussion.
The stars are in a favorable constellation, and the flight of the eagles augurs
great advances.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">The art of Rhetoric has a great tradition
and possesses its own laws, rules and expediencies. Schopenhauer has
demonstrated in his <i>Eristic Dialectic</i>
[1], how a controversial discussion is to be managed, if the goal is to gain advantages
in a debate. Here, we deal with a similar special case of rhetoric, namely, how
do we discuss a subject about which the participants in the debate know
nothing. The methodology of discussing the unknown has also a traditional subject.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB">2. Subject of the Debate</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">There is an idiomatic expression in German:
<i>“um des Kaisers Bart streiten”</i>. To discuss the beard of the Emperor has
become a synonym for uselessly debating such things, about which no one knows
anything, and there is no way to come to a clarification. Even if there were a
way of verification of hypotheses, the results would be of no value, because
there is no real consequence attached to either of possibly many results of the
debate. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:10pt"> (Kaiser Frederic I, drowned in
1190 during a crusade, was known South of the Alps as the Red-Bearded,
Barbarossa, but not North of the Alps. Much research has been dedicated to the
controversy.)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Let us use this etalon of scientific debate
for our own purposes, too. After all, we do not know what information is, how
it is interdependent with energy, what forms can it have, and how much these
forms contrast among each other, and what the meaning of information is. We
similarly have no idea, whether information is present in the whole or in the
parts of the whole, and if so, by which methods and rules. Actually, even
questions of reality, objectivity, interpersonally understandably communicating
about the subject emerge, as it could well have been that the Emperor had no
beard at all. We propose to use for the discussion of the concept of
information the patterns of debate relating to the beard of the Emperor.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB">3. Clarification of the Meanings of the
Terms Used</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Unfortunately, due to the strict discipline
kept by the Server at Zaragoza University, one can not include drawings and
illustrations in his contributions to FIS. This is why I have to refer to a
Figure in Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_hair%23Styles_of_facial_hair" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_hair#Styles_of_facial_hair</a>.
Let me propose for the current debate to use the term ‘beard’ for the whole set
of hairs on the figure. This includes the subsets named ‘moustache’ and
‘jawbone’, where moustache means all and every form of hair originating from
above the mouth and jawbone means all forms of sideburns and goatees, that is,
all the hair that follows the bone of the chin. Generally, the description of
the beard agrees to <i>a + b = c, </i>where <i>c </i>is the complete facial
hair (beard),<i> a, b </i>are respectively the hair N of the mouth (moustache)
and the hair in regions W, S, E relative to the mouth (sideburns &
goatees). Here, however, we shall call that part <i>a</i> of the beard{N,
/W,S,E/}<i>, </i>which is <i>less </i>than the other part <i>b </i>of the beard
<i>c</i>. Whether <i>less </i>refers to less mm² or to less mg of hair material
shall be discussed in the sequel.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">The beard can grow on any and all places of
the plane of the skin. We create a Mercator map of the skin of the face of the
Emperor. Where the beard does grow, a potential has been realised. If there is
no growth, be it because it had never grown there, or it became shaved away or
it fell out (temporarily), we have a state of Zero. If there is a hair on a
spot, we give one of the symbols {1,2,…,16} to distinguish it against other
kinds of growth. Such, we have <i>17 </i>degrees of beard, from <i>Zero </i>meaning
no beard at all, thru <i>1 to 16 </i>which symbols distinguish each a type of
hair that has grown. There are natural processes governing the growth of the
beard, and then there are actions by participants in society, mostly by the
subject himself. One is free, as an Emperor, to grow any and all forms of
combinations of Zeroes and Ones-to-Sixteens. The omnipotence of the Emperor
finds its limits, however, by the prescriptions of Nature, which is likewise
free to allow or hinder the growth of hair on any specific spot. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB">4. Perspective of Discussion</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Attempting to do right in a discussion
about a subject about which no one participating in the discussion has
admittedly any idea at all, has – as mentioned – a noble tradition. That
attempt has been given up and has become a subject of ridicule. The failure to
come to a result is in itself a result: that all the avenues investigated so
far have proved to be dead ends. We know for sure, that all such methods that
have tried to establish a closing statement about the Beard have proven to be a
failure, at least in their interplay. Therefore, a completely new approach is
needed. How can one propose a solution to a problem of complex interdependent
unknowns otherwise than by referring to the tradition established by having
investigated the beard of the Emperor? <b>We discuss some behind-the-scenes
organisational principles that weave the different kinds of unknowns into one
complex system. </b>These are other words for asking, which patterns of hair
could the Emperor have, and which are mutually exclusive? Could he have grown
spots like a leopard or stripes like a zebra? What are the rules that
determine, which patterns can come into existence and among such, which are
perceived art and beauty?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Please allow me to use the classical
perspective, even if it may appear to you to be an arbitrary one, and to re-formulate
some of the contributions in the FIS chatroom of the last few weeks and months,
under the aspect that we seriously and diligently pick up on the work of our
predecessors and frame the whole collection of unknowns as being part of the
questions of the beard of the Emperor.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">In order to convince you about my
seriousness of transforming our debate relating to the concept of information into
the form used by our predecessors and forefathers while they discussed the
concept of the beard of the Emperor, I have culled some of snippets of your
contributions. We shall re-phrase some of them to make visible that we are
indeed conducting a discussion here which accords in its syntax to the
discussion about the beard.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB">5. Integrating the Structure of the
Discussion about a System of Unknowns into Contributions </span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Those who will recognise the verbatim
citations of their own contribution I will have to ask for tolerance for not
having chosen a different snippet, which could have given more succinctly the
essence of what they wished to express. From the others, I have to ask
forbearance for having formulated their ideas in a wording which is not of
theirs: here I hope that the general drift of the idea comes across,
independently of the articulation.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Interpretation</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Those first
things were <span class="gmail-il">leptons</span> and quarks.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">In our logic,
we have to come up first with proto-concepts of <i>a, b </i>based on which
all other ideas can be brought into existence.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">a mousetrap
will have been activated by larger than it human hands. When a mouse blunders
into it, forces of larger scale than its own will come crashing down on it.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">There are
hierarchies of levels of realities. Something that happens on a lower level
can trigger a threshold reaction on a higher level. There is a calculable
bonus if <i>a+b=c </i>holds true, even if the procedure is not conducted.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Contrast is
what is the key principle</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">We have spoken
long enough about <i>a<b>+</b>b. </i>Let us now turn our attention to <i>b<b>-</b>a.</i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">There is a
duality in it</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">We need to
address redundancy generated by the looping of information when provided with
meaning.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">The
higher-level pictures about what happens in lower-level reality are in
themselves a collection underlying the rules of a collection. The celebrity
gossip has its own syntax, independently of the facts.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">The concept of
a beard is an anthropogenic construct. There is hirsutismus and then there is
the social convention ‘beard’.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">We give a
meaning to the facts we observe. The meaning allows us to connect inner
images to external observations. We believe the world to be ordered and we
know our sentences to be ordered: maybe we make a catch by the rational net.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">The
interpersonal domain does not "exist" in the sense that a table may
exist. It remains a construct.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">In a discussion
about experiences with tables and with pictures of tables, both subjects of
the conversation are equally real and abstract.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">The social
marketing value of a beard does not depend so much on the beard itself. It is
a cultural assignment, which beard style is of the highest value. The power
of assignment tends to centralize, erecting entry barriers.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">The facts are
the first-level reality. Their oddity is a summand for the second-level
reality. That what makes the <i>‘most’ </i>of a property appears to have an
inbuilt tendency to prefer to generate even more <i>‘most’; </i>kind of
gainful conversion (systemic bias) reinforcing itself, till meeting external
threshold.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 5pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Working
backwards, intersubjective intentionality, to the extent that it is expressed
in human beings has a real existence and must be considered cognitively
objective as well as subjective accordingly.</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Social
conventions regulate to a high degree the properties of beards, specifically
the relations of the parts to the whole. It can well be that humans share an
archetypic consensus about what is nice, proportionate, fitting. The
archetype does indeed exist.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">If we
introduce a distinction between ontic and epistemic then we are assuming a
dualistic view in advance, which, for example, I am not in favour of. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Always keep in
sight, that art happens on the <i>whole</i> and the parts are but
constituents. If it is organised, <i>a+b=c</i> holds true, and of this, the
relations of <i>a, b </i>to <i>c </i>allow qualifying the relating <i>a, b</i>
to each other.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">A beard is
a realised potentiality</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Of course, but
of what?</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="EN-GB">We observe that our current discussion
about the ontology, epistemology, semantics and psychology of information follows
the rhetorical rules of the classical debate, among the subjects of which the
Beard of the Emperor has a classical, prominent position. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">In the present Treatise, we discontinue
discussing the man-made and the man-judged levels of reality: neither do we
discuss how the Emperor was shaved and trimmed, nor do we discuss what the
social consequences were of his beard being such as it was.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">We are discussing, how parts that are
unknown are/become organised into a system which, while remaining in its deep
essence unknown, has recognisable features, which each can be assigned a
distinguishing name. (Moustache, goatee : energy, potential). We experience and
know the complete, interacting system, without knowing as yet, how the parts are
regulated to appear in specific relations that are (make them) parts of a
whole. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB">6. Failures, Discouragement, Reluctance,
Resistance</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">As has been stated before and repeated by
Joseph (May 9, 2022): <i>“… most attempts at finding ‘clear’ definitions and
other analytic approaches have failed.”</i> This was the point at which our
forefathers have given up, and it seems that all hope is lost when searching
for an <b>organisational principle</b> (along <i>Giordano Bruno: The Cause, the Principle and One </i>[2]) <b>which
makes unknowns to interact in recognisable patterns</b>. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Practical necessity overcomes intellectual abhorrence
and timidity. Even if the case with the Beard appears to have been closed, the
same situation confronts us today. It is the same whether we discuss the beard,
follicles on specific places getting enough nutrients or not, how
crystallisation takes place on a plane, how planes can be laid atop each other
to create a space, how molecules attract and merge, how the position of a
logical marker on one of three places determines the quality of the molecule
that can attach onto a specific place – all these questions debate the
relations of parts to the whole, where <b>the parts appear to be organised</b> <b>according
to some</b> – as yet unknown – <b>behind-the-scenes plan or plans</b>. The
debate goes back to theological roots: if we believe that there is <i>one </i>overriding Principle that organises
the parts into the whole, we are close to <i>monotheistic
</i>concepts. If we see an incessant, innate rivalry among several Principles,
we find ourselves in <i>polytheistic </i>systems
of thoughts. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">It is an uncalled-for effort for
contemporary scientists to have to decide, whether they believe the main, basic
organisational principles to be <i>one central</i> or rather <i>several coequal</i>
organisational perspectives. It is pure necessity that forces us to do mental
contortions (<i>asanas</i>). If the
interaction in genetic information transfer, or among forms of memory, had been
accessible by <i>definitions and analytic
approaches</i>, we would not need to uncover, de-archive the debate about the
Beard. Admitting that we are lost graduates us into the position of a
participant in the Debate About the Beard. This is not by free <i>voluntas </i>that one learns that different
organisational principles exist, alongside the usual. Who wants to learn the Akkadian
concept of Unit and ways of counting, if he hasn’t to? Who wants to familiarise
with the system of bondages during the feudal ages? In fact, no one in his
right sense would want to spend time discussing the beard of a long dead
emperor. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Unfortunately, the effort can not be
avoided, because Nature has not gone through civilisational stages with us and
has therefore remained an infantile primitive brute. As we have begun going to
school, some abilities had already been learnt. These were not further educated
at school. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">The abilities to</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 39pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Establish a mental foreground
contrasting against a background,</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 39pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Recognise differences among objects
and experience preferences,</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 39pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Maintain the concept of order,</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 39pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Order objects according to
preferences, based on properties of the objects,</span></p>
<p class="gmail-MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt 39pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB">Group objects together based on
the objects’ similarities</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">need to be present for the child to be able
to visit elementary school. These abilities will not be educated further. The
child learns to build a stable mental space, in which it imagines units that
are abstracted from the different objects of the perception. We train the
mental muscles of abstraction, of leaving aside particularities in order to
deal with the generality of the thing. Keeping order and how to do a reordering
is not taught as part of the formal education, but rather as preparing for
life. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">There are many small instances of preference
for abstraction against distraction in the procedure of schooling. One would
think that our culture believes pictures that come from <i>narrowing</i> the
perspective are somewhat more valuable above those which present us pictures
that carry their content by theirs being a <i>wider</i> perspective than usual.
As if it would be a rule of Nature to come on a consensus that the unit is
uniform and not that units come in <i>from –
to </i>variants. A part of the brain feels superior towards a different part of
the brain, because the former has <i>publicly
learnt </i>to deal with uniform units,
while the latter had to <i>individually autodidact </i>how to deal with diversity
and variants. In the present Treatise we ask Mr. Clever to help Mr Touchy-Feely
(Mr. Clever’s inner child) to express himself. This may give rise to some
cognitive dissonances.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">There
are precedents for the irritation that the introduction of a new world view has
brought about. “How can that be, that the Earth circles the Sun, although we
see every day that the Sun circles the Earth?” and “How can that be that our
ancestors were apes, although we clearly see that we are actually different to
the apes?” are of the same category as “How can that be that concurrently counting
in two counting systems makes counting more exact and more indeterminate at the
same time, although we see that our one and only counting system is functioning
exactly and error-free?”.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Reader
is invited to adjust his perspectives as he investigates the question, by which
principles and rules many unknown parts are organised into a system which is a
whole, and then some more than the sum of its parts. (Definition of <i>Gestalt </i>[4]).
There is the subjective component of the spectator, how the individual history of
the spectator had prepared him to accept a new idea/explanation (how well his
distracting abilities can play with his abstracting abilities), and there is
the objective component, how the spectator believes the world to be organised
by Nature.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">Aside from the reluctance to put up a
perspective while regarding the melee of the unknows to interact beautifully,
there remains the primary question: <b>What
do we use as measuring unit to establish that a degree of organisational
interdependence is observable which is different to the value of the degree of
organisational interdependence achieved by a different observation?</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">7. Proposed Solution</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">We take the plane which is a depiction of
the face of the Emperor and <i>turn it over.
</i>In the retro vista we see all the physiological works of a skin, with some
follicles sprouting a hair and some not. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">We distinguish the <i>paths </i>of the nourishment flows (and suppose that there are several
types of nourishment compositions), from the <i>material </i>that sprouts on some spots. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">We clarify the terms <i>path, material, composition </i>by referring to the term <i>cycle. </i>The term cycle is a part of the
context: reorder in consequence of <i>periodic
changes.</i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">The term <i>periodic changes </i>is considered to be axiomatic, or given the deictic
definition ‘that what happens as consequence of the Moon’s movements around the
Earth, the Earth’s rotation, the Earth’s movement around the Sun’. Transported into
dealing with natural numbers, periodic changes are observable there in the form
of orders (sequences) and of reorders (procedure which generates cycles).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">The cycles are – in a geometric interpretation
– paths. Paths can cross. In a visual interpretation, cycles can also be seen
as strings or filaments, or caravans. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">In fact, we have created an etalon cohort
of logical tokens (made up of <i>136 </i>pairs
of <i>(a, b)</i>), which we use as a
catalogue of possible states of whatever that consists of two parts. The idea
to take the most basic collection of individuals (aka ‘logical primitives’ © <i>M. Abundis</i>) and subject these to
repeated periodic changes, is to establish a researchable data set, out of
which numeric values for the strength of a relation among elements can be read
off.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">The patterns observed while the logical
primitives are reordering allow erecting space concepts, with spots and places
where caravans cross.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">We shall introduce the concept of a
follicle to be one specific kind of place where the caravans crossing have
specific properties. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">The only remaining task is to set up the
accounting behind the idea. The resulting web of numerical relations binds the
elements to each other by means of what we term <b><i>bondage. </i></b>The bondage reflects
the connection of an element to different elements.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">We propose to use the bondage values as a
concurrent system. It may well be, that the bondage value system is that
organising principle that knits elements and places together with temporal and
other qualitative properties. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">8. Closing Remarks</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-GB">The proposals in the last Chapter shall be published
in more details in Parts II – IV. </span></p></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Am Do., 12. Mai 2022 um 13:28 Uhr schrieb Pedro C. Marijuán <<a href="mailto:pedroc.marijuan@gmail.com">pedroc.marijuan@gmail.com</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">
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<div>Dear All,</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Many thanks to Joseph for his lucid
comments. Most people in this list think that the new syntheses
needed should contain a fundamental ingredient: clarifying the
scientific & philosophical thought around information. It is a
critical element that has obscured, polarized, and aggravated
nasty problems of our times. Would we be capable to offer clear
advancements about that? <br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>About the current session, thanks to
Mariusz for his presentation & responses. The point of view of
the arts is an important angle for the above tasks (it would be
great that he remains and contributes in our list).</div>
<div>Thereafter, maybe it is time to go to
the next session on Natural Computation. However, for technical
reasons of the supporting publication, we should wait a few weeks.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>In this context--Terry, would it be
possible that you continue with your session during these weeks?
There are several messages addressed to you that could be useful
to connect with...</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Best greetings to all,</div>
<div>--Pedro<br>
</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>El 09/05/2022 a las 12:34,
<a href="mailto:joe.brenner@bluewin.ch" target="_blank">joe.brenner@bluewin.ch</a> escribió:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Friends and Colleagues,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Here is a first
response to Pedro’s pre-manifesto. As a chemist, I note first
that for crystallization of something new to occur, you have
to have the right reactants, but after the reaction is
complete, the solution (in both senses) must cool down. Here,
I would simply like to add to the reaction mix the concept of
the value of “Eastern” forms of thought: openness, vagueness
and change. No pontification or claims of eternal validity. If
anything is certain about our discussions to date, most
attempts at finding “clear” definitions and other analytic
approaches have failed. What I would hope to see is an
avant-garde that could produce new syntheses, combining
Pedro’s position, my suggestion and others with an also
necessary scientific rigor.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Best,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Joseph<u></u><u></u></p>
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