<div><font size="3">Dear Alex and Carlos,</font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">Carlos wrote:</font></div><div>But maybe we just need two levels: one where rules don’t change, and another where we can allow rules and meaning to change. The thing is that the way in which rules and meaning change cannot change… but then if we add another layer… To avoid turtles all the way down, could we have layer A changing layer B and vice versa? A coevolution of formal systems?</div><div><br></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">Between your last two last notes, I think we are coming very close to capturing the essential properties of information as instantiating change and non-change as non-digital information. The "logic" of information should allow, then, for both, together and not-together. Alex' formulation is important because it shows that although complex non-computatble information is distinct from digital information, it is not disjoint. There is a relation and an interaction to explore.</font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">The terms "co-evolution", "co-instantiation" or "co-awaiting (<i>co-attente</i>) are exactly the ones used by the contemporary Japanese philosopher Yamauchi Tokuryu whose work is now available in French. Critics can no longer claim that the essential precepts of Eastern logic are not accessible. </font></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">In my logic, one avoids the infinite regress by noting that in reality, for real situations, it does not exist. A regress stops after two, maximum three recursions when no further meaning is added. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Further, there is simple way to avoid "turtles all the way across". If all complex phenomena share both digital and non-digital properties, to different extents at different times, we can have our cake and eat it. The same relation obtains between ontic and epistemic properties of information. No brutal, theoretical split here either.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Thank you and best wishes,</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Joseph</span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left:15px;">----Message d'origine----<br>De : alexhankey@gmail.com<br>Date : 17/02/2024 - 07:15 (E)<br>À : cgershen@gmail.com<br>Cc : fis@listas.unizar.es, 55mrcs@gmail.com, itheaiss@gmail.com<br>Objet : Re: [Fis] "express matter and energy in terms of information"<br><br><div dir="ltr">
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Life and consciousness can be expressed in terms of Ideas or 'Forms'
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(Plato's Forms, and Sanskrit Rupa). Those can be mathematically
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But that kind of information, which occurs at critical instabilities
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'Experience Information' has been termed to describe it.
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