<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal">Coming Out (2024 12 15)<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dear Learned Friends,<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">So many different aspects of how to define information (and
whether we are able and permitted to define information), that one more aspect
will not worsen much the general disorientation.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I’d like to share with you 3 portraits, of people who, in my
prediction, will be revered and acclaimed much more 200 years hence than we
would have thought. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Then, I shall give my two pennies on how to proceed with
FIS.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<ol style="margin-top:0cm" start="1" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal"><b>Three Portraits<span></span></b></li>
</ol>
<ol style="margin-top:0cm" start="1" type="a">
<li class="MsoNormal">Bluma Zeigarnik<span></span></li>
</ol>
<p class="MsoNormal">Freud has introduced the subjective side of epistemology to
the conversations among polite people in bourgeois salons. He envisioned a
self-regulating system, of which the failures we see if a central part-system
cannot compromise or otherwise balance the requirements posed by a conflict
between two different subsystems. He pointed out the importance of treating
children well, because pedagogic errors trail a long and strong tail of
consequences. He gave us the first concepts about feedback loops within the
nervous system of humans. The terminus ‘Lust’ (animal pleasure) can be used as
a unit of goal, direction, and amount towards maintaining a quasi-stable
arrangement within the whole. That what the CNS optimizes the production of is
called lust. Zeigarnik’s experiments have shown that probands have a tendency
to finish a task already begun. There is a reward for crossing the t-s and
dotting the i-s, for fulfilling a job to the required end, for finishing and
closing a separate task. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">While lust in the sense of Freud includes interaction with
the outside world, (breathing, eating, mating, etc.), an objective something
from the outside solving a present mis-allocation (bite of bread in case of
hunger, a few words in case of social needs, etc), Zeigarnik has shown the
existence of <b><i>lust as such </i></b>being produced within the system. She
will be remembered as the first person to produce a synthetic (logical), pure
form of lust, that is a creation of the system itself and not a necessary
addition to the system from the outside.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Zeigarnik-lust comes from fulfilling a <i>self-set </i>goal.
(The probands were free to stop the routine tasks they were charged with while
ostensibly waiting; the probands <i>insisted </i>on finishing the last few of
the subtasks within an organizational unit (paragraph, chapter, page)).<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The proband sets a goal of expectation by intending to solve
e.g. the tasks on a page. His resolve is the <i>expectation,</i> towards which he is motivated
to bring his <i>observed </i>output to agree to. Both marks are within proband’s
head. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">If one had any ideas about building a thinking machine, one
should observe the fact that there is clinical, empirical evidence that the
process of making observations and expectation match each other causes (creates,
generates, is equivalent with) a logical form of endorphine. Our homunculus is
self-satisfying, by setting for itself some goals and then achieving these
goals, just for the sake of it. This means that the homunculus uses information
as a sustenance material. Making ∆
<i>obs, exp = inf </i><i>→
0, </i>the homunculus eats information. No more ∆ <i>obs, exp </i>there, homunculus is smiling. The
proof of information as a material of (self-)motivation has been delivered by
Zeigarnik, who is much less recognized yet as it would be fair.<span></span></p>
<ol style="margin-top:0cm" start="2" type="a">
<li class="MsoNormal">Neil Sloane<span></span></li>
</ol>
<p class="MsoNormal">The Welshman is a distinguished mathematician of his own
standing, yet the genius of his insight, that someone needs to do the humble
jobs too, so that the pompous can move forward, propels him miles in advance of
the legions of good mathematicians. Sloane has started collecting integer
sequences, because one needs a catalog for the integer sequences one uses. His
own anthology grew over 30 years so much useful, that in 1996 he publicized it
under the name of Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What the invention of double ledgers for accounting and
business, that the invention of OEIS for the body of sciences. If you dig down
in epistemology, you will find that if you want to distinguish between two
concepts, you need a collection of symbols the meaning of is already agreed on,
relative to which neutral fact the differences between the two disputed will
become evident. The sequence of your words is as important as the form of the
words. The sequence remaining eternal (all entries in OEIS have the form <i>a(n),
n: 0, 1, 2, …</i>), the different meanings become evident. The cultural impact
of the OEIS has not been recognized yet. It is the collection of <b><i>names as
such.</i></b><span></span></p>
<ol style="margin-top:0cm" start="3" type="a">
<li class="MsoNormal">Pedro C Marijuán<span></span></li>
</ol>
<p class="MsoNormal">We all know Pedro. For me personally, the level of how courteously
communicating, between a Zaragoza professor of technology and a Vienna
psychologist, can simply not be topped. Common stretches in our histories gave
the world the concept of etiquette. It is always a delight to exchange with
Pedro. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The as of yet unrecognized contribution to culture created
by Pedro is this here company of charming and collaborative Learned Friends. It
may be at times strenuous for some of us to accept that one or other of the
Learned Friends will not deviate from their heretic and errant ways. Like a Zen
master, Pedro keeps his discretion and encourages each of us to speak their
mind. What we experience here is <b><i>communication as such. </i></b>Pedro’s
resistance to prejudiced clichés is remarkable.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<ol style="margin-top:0cm" start="2" type="1">
<li class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="FR">To the Ordre du jour<span></span></span></b></li>
</ol>
<ol style="margin-top:0cm" start="1" type="a">
<li class="MsoNormal">Catalog of Definitions of
Information<span></span></li>
</ol>
<p class="MsoNormal">Gordana mentions en passant that the definition of
information is a recurrent subject in FIS. But, pray, <i>what else </i>can be a
raison d’etre of a Club of Learned Friends who meet under diverse readings of
F, I and S, but in any way of putting it, the I refers to Information. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ruminating animals can extract nutrients from pre-digested
material. No one who qualifies as a Learned Friend is innocent of previous
influences on what is, and why not something else, information. We are all
already pretty pre-influenced on this subject. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Had we the youth, circumstances and inner serenity of Neil
Sloane of then, we would set up an Online Encyclopedia of Definitions of
Information. <span></span></p>
<ol style="margin-top:0cm" start="2" type="a">
<li class="MsoNormal">How to tell your child
that Santa Claus was his Daddy in a mask<span></span></li>
</ol>
<p class="MsoNormal">There is a moment of disillusionment when one understands the nuts
and bolts of something previously thought to be a product of Thor or Poseidon.
We still have that magic-mythic thinking of normal children attached like rests
of eggshells to our grown-up thinking apparatus. Information is such a subject.
>From diplomatic double-speak, via insinuations and empathy to dreams, phantasies,
imaginations, concepts, constructs, definitions and names to contexts and
meaning, there is a library worth of dissertations about the <b><i>connotations
</i></b>of the term information. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">What this honorable Society of Learned Friends dances around
is the one-and-only real certified approved true official listed and published
as norm <b><i>denotation </i></b>of the word. Surface structures (chair,
Sessel, chaise) abound, deep structures they refer to (are descendants of) are,
by definition, few.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The only frame of reference that is true, accepted, etc., is
the system of natural numbers. They are public and can be generated at will by
anyone, anytime, anywhere. If we succeed in hooking a definition unto, into, in
this system of references, then that definition is as well defined as it can
get, like a sequence in OEIS. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Well, this here FIS has in the course of about 30 years brought
up a proposition for a construct that serves well for the purposes of a
denotation. One cannot sit on a Gestalt of a multilingual furniture. One cannot
use the sentence <i>inf = </i><i>∆
n?, n! </i>for anything else but as a
conversation starter or stopper.<span></span></p>
<ol style="margin-top:0cm" start="3" type="a">
<li class="MsoNormal">Share the social
consequences<span></span></li>
</ol>
<p class="MsoNormal">It is one’s own decision how intensively one seeks social
recognition. For a few of the Learned Friends it may be a professional
necessity to publish something at times. If anyone in need of a nice
publication would compile a Dictionary of Current Definitions of Information,
several interests would be satisfied. Surely, members of this group would be
willing to contribute and participate.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">There is an idea half-hanging about a blog explaining the
mysteries one would experience if one reordered 12 books and kept being awake and
attentive while doing so. It is ok, if one does not want oneself to play the guitar,
to listen to or watch YouTube videos on how to play the guitar. If, however,
one wants to understand how the guitar is built and what makes accords, one
will not gain from watching introductory videos, however well these are made. If
one wants to understand how order is <b><i>generated </i></b>it is unavoidable
that one clearly distinguishes between classes and types of <b><i>objects in
transit</i></b> and that this again depends on the <b><i>properties vs places </i></b>of
things. To gain context for these ideas, the proband needs to actually,
physically experience what he will give a name to. Doing something creates a
mental space for the name of what one has done. Deictic definitions are
possible if there is a mental index finger active that points to a content of
perception or memory. The other direction is not functional. If you tell the
proband that he shall experience this and that, the proband will not experience
neither this nor that, but rather such impressions which are associated with
his interpretations of what you say. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Maybe the cultural-paradigm change will be called
re-subjectification, and the education of the biologic algorithms will follow
the didactic for the apprentices at Tokyo Metro. These have to touch their leg
on having closed a task. The intermixing of signals towards the brain, coming
from sensory organs vs coming as self-produced by the brain, seems to lower
accident rates by ensuring better functioning of the attention. <i>(I have placed object q on place w. Touch the leg. Next,
object r goes to place f. I have placed object r on place f. Touch the leg.
Next, object …)</i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">A well-written and useful handbook on how to count biologic
processes would include a few currently existing definitions of connotations of
information and show the way to arrive at the denotation of the concept. Quite
a few names in the authors list.<span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal">We do have something to tell the world and we do have the competence to tell it. The next question is self-legitimation, and then marketing. Great expectations!</p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div></div>