<div dir="ltr">Very nice progress. We are discussing the inner structure of an edifice called information.<div>All very well, but please align your plans to the fundaments of the edifice. We need that what is being said, also in this current session, to be congruent with the general logic which still rules supreme.</div><div>Whatever melody our deliberations during the past session have created in our collective mind, it must be playable by the organ that a+b=c has constructed. If the procedure of biology, natural and AI are rational, the procedure must be expressible in a Wittgenstein-Shannon type language also.</div><div><br></div><div>Therefore, within the symbols set there must be something that allows the construction of relations among distinct concepts. If biology is a periodic process taking place on a closed collection of individual logical units, then the interrelations are included as a part of the same package which has delivered us the Sumerian units and all our knowledge since. It is a property of the symbol set that it generates by its own diverseness those patterns to which we point and invent a name for. </div><div>Learned Friends already discuss the relations among ideas, while the mechanic's workshop generates first prototypes of ideas that describe patterns. We can point to collections of numbers and say "these depict facts" and concurrently to collections of numbers and say "these depict the ideas that are referring to / included / consequence of / etc. of the same facts". The rules of interrelations between facts, their ideas and realizations yield the basic architecture of the edifice of information. The rules of how numbers relate to each other describe the rules of how things (in their manifold forms and properties, like space, mass, energy, etc) relate to each other. </div><div><br></div><div>The grand idea is that the collection of all possibilities is a finite number as long as the number of objects that interact is finite. In the Grand Total the realized and the non-realized are the same sum. A statement about the collection will discuss both what is the case and what can yet be the case (in a closed, limited, periodic habitat). Using an etalon collection, one can demonstrate that indeed there are two levels in the discussion: the level of facts and the level of ideas. </div><div><br></div><div>There is a gearbox, translation mechanism which mediates the aspects <should be - can be> the case, which is a complex interplay between cycles and the bazaar, its consequences being felt both in the world of facts and in that of ideas. </div><div><br></div><div>Hope that this offer of a numeric outline for a basic structure is found practical for your investigations. </div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Am Fr., 8. März 2024 um 15:53 Uhr schrieb Dai Griffiths <<a href="mailto:dai.griffiths.1@gmail.com">dai.griffiths.1@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"><div dir="ltr">Interesting links, I hope I am not too late to respond.<div>It seems to me that there is a big difference between things which are:</div><div><br></div><div>a) unsurprising</div><div><ul><li>identifying a transform of a aural stimulus that has activated a persons eardrum, where we can assume that the neural processes involved are largely the same for all individuals.</li></ul></div><div>b) Could be feasible, but which depend on details of brain processes which I do not know, or which perhaps are as yet unknown. </div><div><ul><li>identifying a memory of an aural stimulus</li><li>identifying a word just before it is vocalised (or which is conciously thought without vocalisation). </li></ul></div><div>c) Doubtful</div><div><ul><li>Interpreting the thoughts of a person as they go about their living, which might or might not lead to speech. My assumption is that the neuronal structures involved are deeply contingent on the detail of the organisms' prior interactions, and so cannot be mapped between organisms </li></ul></div><div>I may be wrong about (d), time will tell. But if I am right, then we should reserve judgment about the prospects for 'brain transparency', An encephalographic overseer might be able to see if their minion is on task, but perhaps not what they are thinking about.</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div>Dai</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 7 Mar 2024 at 10:36, Dr. Plamen L. Simeonov <<a href="mailto:plamen.l.simeonov@gmail.com" target="_blank">plamen.l.simeonov@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<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 dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br clear="all"></div><br><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Well said. Thank you, Catlos.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">I have one last question:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">What do you and the FIS colleagues think of this kind of outlook for evolutionary formali(n)sation?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(7,55,99)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(7,55,99)"><p style="margin:0px 0px 8.1px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">1.</font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 8.1px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://news.mit.edu/2019/training-artificial-intelligence-brain-scan-0619__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!SsU3-gNIFwLZgKiiAaKmhhb1-cQGJaorxvmbNO3QLa-ar2RGlYGvCeFuJBLc7vMzwA0hIWAxk5GeRtvH74S8ZtvCj4Rp$" target="_blank">https://news.mit.edu/2019/training-artificial-intelligence-brain-scan-0619</a></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 8.1px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">2.</font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 8.1px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/01/1072471/brain-scans-can-translate-a-persons-thoughts-into-words/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!SsU3-gNIFwLZgKiiAaKmhhb1-cQGJaorxvmbNO3QLa-ar2RGlYGvCeFuJBLc7vMzwA0hIWAxk5GeRtvH74S8ZtEGJZZW$" target="_blank">https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/01/1072471/brain-scans-can-translate-a-persons-thoughts-into-words/</a></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 8.1px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">3.</font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 8.1px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.weforum.org/videos/davos-am23-ready-for-brain-transparency-english/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!SsU3-gNIFwLZgKiiAaKmhhb1-cQGJaorxvmbNO3QLa-ar2RGlYGvCeFuJBLc7vMzwA0hIWAxk5GeRtvH74S8ZtSFL0yp$" target="_blank">http://www.weforum.org/videos/davos-am23-ready-for-brain-transparency-english/</a></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 8.1px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
<font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">All the best!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(7,55,99)">Plamen</div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 6, 2024 at 7:06 PM Carlos Gershenson <<a href="mailto:cgershen@gmail.com" target="_blank">cgershen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<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>Dear Pedro and colleagues,<div><br></div><div>Thank you very much for the lively discussions and commentaries. I have learned a lot.</div><div><br></div><div>I would not say these are concluding comments, as all questions remain open, but perhaps "summarizing comments".</div><div><br></div><div>I think that efforts to “fix” formal systems to go beyond or around their limits (<i>à la</i> Hilbert’s program) are doomed to fail. We still need to accept them or find a better way of dealing with them. Perhaps an alternative would be not to see them as something negative, but as something we can exploit/benefit from. I mean, just hypothetically imagine if mathematics was consistent, complete, and decidable. Yes, we would have absolute truths, we could have certainty. But would we have creativity? Innovation? Serendipity? In other words, we could eliminate many problems we suffer from, but perhaps we would have many more. Even worse, perhaps we would not even be here. For how could human culture evolve in a consistent, complete, and decidable world?</div><div><br></div><div>Of course, this does not mean that we should abandon science or formal methods. But by acknowledging their limits, we should be able to use different narratives to explore beyond them.</div><div><br></div><div>Best (albeit incomplete) wishes,</div><div><br><div>
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