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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Kate,</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">It was a pity that I could barely
participate in the discussion of your views.</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">At least I would like to send you some
brief response to your final query.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Defining info? My traditional view was
linking information to forms of sentience (living beings), where
information may be taken as "distinction on the adjacent".</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">This was collated into "ten principles
of information science" and updated some years ago.</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">See:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344951859_10_information_principles_revisited__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!RS5XIAGREZfuxUKKebxZiez-BYLsYCW3zjpbeROpdOltUVScckwKTAjm5bTVg7v4oF4_D1mVE2uRcyiceKJ2T1PwLylU$">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344951859_10_information_principles_revisited</a></div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Evaluative information? Give me a
biological life cycle, or give me a human life course, a
biography... whatever.</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Then we would be able to evaluate the
potential impact of that info item, to make better sense of it
regarding that subject and ourselves.</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">It is curious how much social use is
made on CVs, short bios, etc. so to better evaluate what the
others say or do. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">It is pure pragmatics that reveals the
intense link between information and advancing life cycles.</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">It was nice following your texts.</div>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Best--Pedro<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">El 01/06/2024 a las 21:13, Katherine
Peil Kauffman escribió:<br>
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Dear Pedro et al,
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<div class="">Thank you all once again for the splendid
discussion. (Those both here and the many “back-stage”.)</div>
<div class="">By way of final closure I’d like to pose two
general questions to each of you:</div>
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<div class="">1) What would you recommend as your best general <i
class="">definition of information</i> for the lay public?</div>
<div class="">2) What can information science tell us about “<i
class="">evaluative”</i> information?</div>
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<div class="">Pedro, I hope life is treating you and yours with
the very best of all possible outcomes. While your absence has
definitely altered the dynamics of this discussion, it turns out
that there are many “Scarecrows" that I will miss most upon
returning to my world. </div>
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<div class="">Some of us - perhaps renegade - psychologists are
calling this world the “Psychosphere”, a term that demands a
place for subjectivity in our foundational theories. We seek
deeper more complete frameworks and realistic explanations for
all the nuances of “identity” as well as all Norman Bates
connotations of human development and behavior. We value
humility. We don’t claim to know the answers. But we will no
longer check our humanity at the door or deny our destructive
impact on the biosphere or upon one another. We trust the
biological wisdom of our embodiment, and honor the
responsibility inherent in “free” will. We aim to draw much more
deeply upon direct experience, to let people try the science on
for size, and decide for themselves. An edited collection is in
the works, and I’m offering the new emotion science in one
(maybe two) chapters entitled <i class="">The Tao of Life,
Love, and Larceny. </i>(As you might guess, the Love and
Larceny bits are to emphasize how the positive and negative
emotions relate to the best and worst of human nature.) There is
so much to say - whatever logic might apply.</div>
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<div class="">Please know that each of you are always welcome in
my world. Welcome to contribute, to argue, to question, and/or
to share unique personal experiences that demand better science.
Indeed, we need you.</div>
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<div class="">Heartfully yours,</div>
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<div class="">Katherine Peil Kauffman </div>
<div class="">(AKA Kung Fu Kate)</div>
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