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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">Hi Xueshan,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">Thank you for providing structure for a great discussion. I wonder how much distance might be between your concept of inforware and the concept of the enactive mind? (And, it might be limiting to
equate it too closely with neural brains or even nerve nets, given the sensori-motor capabilities of the cell membrane in single-celled organisms.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">In terms of my own take on defining information, I dovetail quite well with perspectives recently offered by Gordana, Franceso and Karl but would sum it up in the simple semi-Batsonian bio-relativistic
phrase… “The difference that makes a difference – to me”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Book"">Kate Kauffman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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