<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default">Dear Xueshan,</div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default">Thank you for your reply, late or otherwise (it did not seem late to me). </div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default">I refer to your question regarding your note/cloud #4:</div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default">< . . . Can different inforwares communicate across different levels? Is the communication between humans and cats true communication (language comprehension) or false communication (conditional reflex)?></div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default">– To answer that directly, for *myself* I would use the term 'entity' or 'agent' instead of 'infoware'. I believe that suitably covers what is needed in explaining such informatic situations.</div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:large" class="gmail_default">Still, regarding your specific term 'infoware' . . . I already suggested it seems confusing and I asked for clarification. But you have not offered any clarification, so I repeat my earlier note:</div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><Your ‘*’ an ‘**’ notes [which you use to further explain 'infoware'] seem to suggest ‘some things’ CAN be treated informatically, and ‘other things’ CANNOT be treated informatically? What EXACTLY is the difference between the two? Is that what you really think, or did you have something else in mind?></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4">If the meaning of 'infoware' were so immediately evident, I don't think it would require further </font><span style="font-size:large">‘*’ an ‘**’ notes (which are themselves rather confusing).</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4">It seems futile to debate use of 'infoware' without the requested clarification. One presumes you come to FIS for some type of 'peer review' — rather than relying on years of positive student comments, students naturally driven to accept what the professor tells them for receive a passing grade. For better or worse, I have no such incentive and I may have a bit more experience in studying 'the problem'?</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4">That said . . . you do touch on interesting matters in your 5 clouds, which I interpret as 'mapping informatic LEVELS' and which you ALSO point to in various ways, in your different clouds. That discussion of LEVELS is ultimately more interesting to me . . . and which ALSO ties to your suggested 300 different professions etc.</font></div></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4">Marcus</font></div></div>
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