<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Eric,<div class="">There is a confusion here that is quite natural.</div><div class="">LOF is a book of mathematics and philosophy. It discusses the idea of a distinction.</div><div class="">When one takes a mathematical approach one attempts to begin with very simple structures and </div><div class="">explore outward into complexity. LOF dwells on the possibility of one distinction throughout the whole book.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">“We take as given the idea of distinction and the idea of indication </div><div class="">and that one cannot make an indication without drawing a distinction. </div><div class="">We take therefore the form of distinction for the form.”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As such LOF is not concerned with where or how the distinction is made.</div><div class="">In the same way, a mathematics book about number is not concerned with particular representations of numbers.</div><div class="">Of course we have these concerns and we want to understand more and more about numbers in general</div><div class="">and we feel that some representations will help and some ways to use signs and symbols will help. </div><div class="">The same is the case with the idea of distinction. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">GSB does have his ontology (or lack thereof!). </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="77359E8A-D95F-4072-9087-E00A0757E738" width="450" height="124" src="cid:D07A0F26-F1E0-4070-95E6-39CCBBAF94F8" class=""></div><div class="">Some people are made a bit nervous by declarations that the world is created from nothing. </div><div class="">But you can investigate this if you are not annoyed by it.</div><div class="">What could ’things’ be ‘made of’? </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If you’re bothered, then you are bothered.</div><div class="">Mathematics is similarly annoying </div><div class="">as we have systematically shown </div><div class="">how to build it all from nothing </div><div class="">but the act of collecting/distinguishing </div><div class="">and the act of creating signs and indications.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Everyone has their niche of ideas and ways that they want to continue to use. </div><div class="">In the approach of a big general idea, what we already “know" looks too good be abandoned, </div><div class="">and so we keep demanding that the other talk in our language.</div><div class="">GSB created new language. </div><div class="">Wittgenstein pointed out the ontological consequences of the limitations of language. </div><div class="">Both are very challenging. </div><div class="">Neither are making religions. </div><div class="">These are anti-religions.</div><div class="">Best,</div><div class="">Lou<br class=""><div><br class=""></div><div><img apple-inline="yes" id="5BC50924-6FC1-4645-8F69-93ECFB2D6453" width="453" height="602" src="cid:C57216C1-78A8-433E-A017-7389735568FC" class=""></div><div><br class="">THE FORM WE TAKE TO EXIST ARISES FROM FRAMING NOTHING.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 17, 2025, at 6:19 AM, Eric Werner <<a href="mailto:eric.werner@oarf.org" class="">eric.werner@oarf.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">

  
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  <div class=""><p class="">Dear Lou,</p><p class="">To point 4. Yes, I admit it was sarcasm. To me a distinction
      requires a subject. And that subject's neuro-hardware or firmware
      or software limits the distinctions that that subject can make.
      For example, the distinctions made by an ant, a frog, a cat or a
      human may be quite different.  </p><p class="">I realize you are probably the world top expert on Spencer Brown
      so you probably have a reply. But my instinct is that GSB is
      claiming too much by using 'distinction' as an ONTOLOGICAL or
      metaphysical foundation for what requires a subjective capacity.
      OK, this last sentence is not fully clear, but I think GSB is
      confusing subject and being. <br class="">
    </p><p class="">As for the sarcasm, it is a more personal emotional reaction
      having little to do with you. Although you may unknowingly have
      had a role in the matter through your publications.  I have
      friends who study early Wittgenstein and GSB as if their texts
      were biblical texts. Going to the library every day to read the
      Tractatus and LOF like a disciple doing his or her religious
      studies. </p><p class="">At the onset of puberty and the ability to consciously reason, my
      mother took each of us into the kitchen and taught us to be
      critical of the bible, both the old and new testament. We were
      raised Christian but there were also Jews in my mother's ancestry.
      Who knows why, but I have maintained my religious skepticism and
      hence my perhaps inappropriate reaction when I smell religiosity.
      Apologies dear Lou. <br class="">
    </p><p class="">In spite of my critical attitude, I do believe there is more to
      the universe. There may be a God or Gods and angels.  There may be
      life after death. Life is always surprising. So, I am open to
      that. <br class="">
    </p><p class="">-Eric<br class="">
    </p>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/16/25 6:58 PM, Louis Kauffman
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          <div class="">On Jan 16, 2025, at 10:35 AM, Eric Werner <<a href="mailto:eric.werner@oarf.org" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">eric.werner@oarf.org</a>>
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            <div class=""><p class="">Dear Lou and Kate and all,</p><p class="">To point 1. There are those fascinating
                studies of pathologies of disconnection between the
                right (holistic) and the left (linear) ideations.</p><p class="">2. The probability that what you are
                suggesting will be followed has low frequency.</p>
              <div class="">[I have no idea what you mean here. The
                values of the probability and the corresponding
                frequencies in QM can range arbitrarily high or low.]</div>
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            <div class=""><p class="">3. Of course, human perception includes
                unconscious processing. In fact most of it is
                unconscious. Does the ant perceive the full moon? How is
                perception related to the complexity of neural
                processing in the brain? Are there degrees of perceiving
                the same object or event by different agents of
                different neural structure and complexity? <br class="">
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        [yes]<br class="">
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            <div class=""><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="">4. Sorry I get all emotional when I see the
                lack of distinctions in GSB</p>
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        [Sarcasm? Not appropriate. I would be interested in what you
        mean here. Then we would have something to discuss.]<br class="">
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            <div class=""><p class="">Wittgenstein  version 2 would perhaps not
                agree with Wittgenstein version 2 where he allows a much
                broader range of function and what can be expressed in
                language and its games. <br class="">
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        [Yes. But I refer to parts of W1 that do not really depend on
        his “picture theory’.]<br class="">
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            <div class=""><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="">5.  'O' my God we have entered religion. As
                the country singer disparages her partner-husband when
                she croons  "You say it best when you say nothing at
                all." Poor guy.  But more seriously, Lou, do you really
                think "All of language collapses into the meaning of a
                single word or sign," ?  The problem is that recursion
                generates repetition and the lack of  sufficient
                meaningful content whether it be in conversation of the
                development of embryos. <br class="">
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        [I point out that the concept of distinction goes across the
        board. In that sense we can have one word or one symbol that
        stands for any distinction. It is not a religion.]<br class="">
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            <div class=""><div class=""> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="">But, Kate, I do think that emotions are not
                binary and rather continuous gradations and
                multidimensional. Would such an assumption be
                deleterious to your overall theoretical stance. Your
                remarks on cell signalling and the approach-avoidance
                theme may hold at that level of ontology but seems to
                fail at higher levels of more complex systems and
                beings.   <br class="">
              </p><p class="">And hats off to Stu and the problem of
                assuming a well defined phase space of what is possible.
                It points to problems with the foundations of
                probability theory. <br class="">
              </p><p class="">And yes Pedro thanks for points about meaning
                and action which relates to Wittgenstein version 2. <br class="">
              </p><p class="">Thank you for the motivating discussion Lou,</p><p class="">Eric<br class="">
              </p><p class=""><br class="">
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              <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/14/25 2:58 AM, Louis
                Kauffman wrote:<br class="">
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                Dear Kate,
                <div class="">I have questions and comments.</div>
                <div class="">1. While the notions of right and left
                  hemispheres are useful to summarize certain aspects, I
                  actually do not know what is really meant when people
                  use those words.</div>
                <div class="">So it would be better in communicating
                  with me, a mathematician who needs definitions
                  whenever possible, to rewrite statements without those
                  metaphors.</div>
                <div class="">2. I do not want the word probability
                  unless you can tell me what you are counting. If you
                  cannot tell, then please speak of frequencies. Same
                  for so called probability in QM.</div>
                <div class="">3. Perception does not include unconscious
                  processing, but unconcious processing can affect
                  perception. Perception is accompanied by awareness,
                  often by consciousness.</div>
                <div class="">This is how I use the word perception. My
                  camera does not perceive the sunset. I perceive the
                  photo produced by the camera and I am involved in the
                  taking of photos by the camera.</div>
                <div class="">Of course, I can set the camera to taking
                  photos automatically. No perception occurs until I see
                  them or you see them. But registration does occur.
                  These issues are related to QM as well.</div>
                <div class="">The cat registers and is dead or alive at
                  the end of the hour. I find out. But the potentia have
                  come to rest before I find out because the cat is
                  corporeal.</div>
                <div class="">4. Do you feel that all awareness is
                  related to emotions? GSB says every distinction is
                  associated with motive. So maybe. Feeling is more
                  general then emotion in my ways of speaking.</div>
                <div class="">Feeling has to do with going outside given
                  language and meaning to a wider and not defined domain
                  from which we return with possibly new ways of
                  speaking. This is for me what Wittgenstein is
                  speaking </div>
                <div class="">about when he says “Whereof one cannot
                  speak one must be silent.”, and then new speaking can
                  emerge, but NOT from a “hierarchy of languages” as
                  Russell said in his introduction to W’s Tractatus, but
                  by going beneath language to </div>
                <div class="">Its source.</div>
                <div class="">5. In relation to 4. C.S.Peirce had the
                  idea of a “sign for itself” that emerged from the ever
                  expanding hierarchy of a person’s language. There is a
                  truth in that. One can also see an icon, such as O, as
                  a sign for itself when seen as both a distinction and
                  a sign for a distinction. But then the sign O is
                  enveloped in the interpretant that would see it that
                  way. And we only understand the interpretant in terms
                  of the ever expanding hierarchy of our language. The O
                  is like a “quantum particle”. It takes  the whole
                  universe of </div>
                <div class="">discourse to disclose its meaning. All of
                  language collapses into the meaning of a single word
                  or sign.</div>
                <div class="">Best,</div>
                <div class="">Lou</div>
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                  <div class=""><br class="">
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                      <div class="">On Jan 13, 2025, at 3:57 PM,
                        Katherine Peil <<a href="mailto:ktpeil@outlook.com" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">ktpeil@outlook.com</a>>
                        wrote:</div>
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                          <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Avenir Book";" class="">Thank
                              you so much Lou.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
                          <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Avenir Book";" class="">Self-reference
                              is something very deep indeed, perhaps
                              fundamentally located at the nexus of
                              subject~object itself (in terms of
                              geometry and association with quantum
                              physics). The step from the P</span><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;" class="">an
                              triangle to</span><b class="" style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;"> </b><span style="font-family: "Avenir Book"; font-size: 11pt;" class="">George
                              Spencer-Brown’s observer intervention and
                              wavefunction collapse seems to be in this
                              territory. Self-reference as being the
                              perfect circle, representing the emergence
                              from a sea of possibilities the
                              probabilistic manifestation of percept and
                              concept in one lovely unit.</span></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:CE2B4F99-621C-47C0-9472-E9BA1CE1522E@gmail.com" class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:BB1C8C4D-A8C5-4144-82F1-F4F4D80D2C60@gmail.com" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">
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                              a psychological perspective, however,
                              perception is a different can of worms,
                              distinct from (but related to<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">physical sensory stimulus)</i><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and
                              the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">embodied response</i>.
                              Behaviorism noted the stimulus-response
                              coupling (and its essential role in
                              learning), but remained intentionally
                              blind to any internal cognitive processing
                              inside the proverbial Black Box.
                              Perception can be defined as everything
                              happening inside that Black Box,
                              everything between that stimulus and
                              response, and the more neurally endowed
                              the creature, the more the perceptual
                              processing involved. Unlike the perfect
                              zero, it can be reasonably accurate or
                              riddled with error. This is why some
                              self-referential feedback is required in
                              the stimulus itself.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
                          <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Avenir Book";" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div>
                          <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Avenir Book";" class="">This
                              marks the distinction between affective
                              computations and cognitive computations.
                              Affective computations specifically
                              concern the self, they feel either good or
                              bad, offering evaluative feedback about
                              the self within its local physical
                              environment and they trigger direct
                              stimulus-response behavior. The stream of
                              emotional information came first and still
                              provides primary behavioral motivation. No
                              observation no qualia? I agree but add no
                              sensory stimulus, no percept!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                              <br class="">
                              Ian McGlichest’s work in the dual yet
                              interacting functions of the left and
                              right brain hemispheres is instructive
                              here as well. Music, maths, non-verbal
                              wholism, creative “unconscious”, intuitive
                              capacities and all imaginable
                              possibilities…… and emotion…collectively
                              dwell in the right hemisphere – the Master
                              to the left-brain emissary where complex
                              linguistic perceptual processing occurs.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
                          <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Avenir Book";" class="">Kate
                              Kauffman<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
                          <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div>
                          <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div>
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                                  <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">On 1/12/25, 9:39 PM,
                                    "Stuart Kauffman" <<a href="mailto:stukauffman@gmail.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">stukauffman@gmail.com</a>>
                                    wrote: Katherine Peil Kauffman<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                </div>
                                <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><br class="">
                                  Thank you both,<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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                                  <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div>
                                </div>
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                                  <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">Stu<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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                                      <br class="">
                                      <o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                    <blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" class="">
                                      <div class="">
                                        <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">On Jan 12, 2025, at
                                          8:52<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""> </span>PM, Louis
                                          Kauffman <<a href="mailto:loukau@gmail.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">loukau@gmail.com</a>>
                                          wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                      </div>
                                      <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div>
                                      <div class="">
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                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">Dear Katherine<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">I do not yet take
                                            the step to “explain” how to
                                            go from percept to concept.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">The point I
                                              inhabit is prior to that.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">In every
                                              situation where you have
                                              percept you also have
                                              concept.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">They arise
                                              together for you.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">Possibly not with
                                              the good concept you are
                                              searching for.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">For example,
                                              consider the way the
                                              perception of Saturn’s
                                              rings first appeared as
                                              lune-like patterns on the
                                              orb of the planet.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">The better
                                              concept of rings took some
                                              time.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">But every time
                                              there is a perception
                                              there is at the very least
                                              some concept, some
                                              description and it is from
                                              this place of
                                              percept/concept together
                                              that we proceed.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">From there you
                                              may or may not conclude
                                              that there is no way to
                                              reduce percept to concept
                                              and there is no way to
                                              reduce concept to percept.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">That is my
                                              position as a working
                                              position.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">Experience
                                              provides evidence that
                                              there is much more to the
                                              concurrence. In typing I
                                              can accomplish the task
                                              without looking at the
                                              keys.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">I have no
                                              training in this. I found
                                              that eventually I did it.
                                              I do not know how it works
                                              or why it is reliable. If
                                              you asked me which fingers
                                              make which letters, I
                                              could not answer.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">The same goes for
                                              improvisation on my
                                              clarinet, but there I do
                                              keep conscious track of
                                              the key and some other
                                              contextual information.
                                              Then my “fingers” do the
                                              rest in feedback with ear
                                              and brain.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">LeDoux  has an
                                              important point and I
                                              would like to know how he
                                              links the Cognitive
                                              Computations with the
                                              Affective Computations. In
                                              music practice we do this
                                              very deliberately, but in
                                              performance <o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">(also part of
                                              practice) we let it
                                              happen. Music seems to
                                              begin with the affective.
                                              Doing mathematics seems to
                                              often begin in the
                                              cognitive, but achieves
                                              new creation at the nexus
                                              of cognitive and affective
                                              levels.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">This is why many
                                              people gravitate to
                                              geometry. And the
                                              Pythagoreans knew that
                                              music and geometry were
                                              one.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">Steiner in his
                                              early work focused on the
                                              self-reference of "thought
                                              thinking thought” which I
                                              take to be at the nexus of
                                              concept and percept. <o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">In logical and
                                              pre logical work it helps
                                              to use signs iconically.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">Thus a circle
                                              such as O can stand for a
                                              distinction and we can
                                              “see” that the circle
                                              itself makes a distinction
                                              in the plane.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">Thus the circle O
                                              is seen to refer to
                                              itself.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">In this
                                              self-reference the
                                              Peircian Triangle<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">                 
                                                                     
                                              Interpretant<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">                 
                                                     Signifier          
                                                             Signified<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">Collapses to. <o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">                 
                                                                       
                                                 Interpretant<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">                 
                                                                       
                                                         O<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">The O does not
                                              have a separate meaning
                                              from its interpretant.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">This leads George
                                              Spencer-Brown to declaim:<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span id="cid:84709B7E-342D-4BDA-9B07-05F654C166CA" class=""><GSBMarkObserverQuote.png></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">I suggest that
                                              this situation is imaged
                                              in the orthodox form of
                                              quantum measurement where
                                              the smooth and determinate
                                              evolution of the wave
                                              function is<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">Interrupted by
                                              the mark of observation.
                                              Without an observer there
                                              is no distinction and the
                                              world unseen evolves in
                                              potentia. With an observer
                                              comes<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">percept and
                                              concept and all the rest.
                                              When I was 16 I called the
                                              potentia the “guarded
                                              source of the discrete”.
                                              Can’t do any better yet.<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">Best,<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">Lou<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                          </div>
                                          <div class="">
                                            <div class="">
                                              <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><br class="">
                                                <br class="">
                                                <o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                              <blockquote style="margin-top: 5pt; margin-bottom: 5pt;" class="">
                                                <div class="">
                                                  <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class="">On Jan 12,
                                                    2025, at 5:21 PM,
                                                    Katherine Peil <<a href="mailto:ktpeil@outlook.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">ktpeil@outlook.com</a>>
                                                    wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                                </div>
                                                <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div>
                                                <div class="">
                                                  <div class="">
                                                    <div class="">
                                                      <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Avenir Book";" class="">Thanks
                                                          Pedro – great
                                                          to hear from
                                                          you. A quick
                                                          comment on:</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                                    </div>
                                                    <div class="">
                                                      <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Avenir Book";" class="">….
                                                          I see a
                                                          problem going
                                                          from "percepts
                                                          to concepts"
                                                          as Lou claims <br class="">
                                                          below.
                                                          Neuroscience
                                                          has nowadays a
                                                          rare consensus
                                                          on not
                                                          dissociating <br class="">
                                                          PERCEPTION and
                                                          ACTION. The
                                                          "Action
                                                          Perception
                                                          Cycle"…</span></b><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                                    </div>
                                                    <div class="">
                                                      <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Avenir Book";" class="">From
                                                          the view of
                                                          emotion
                                                          science, this
                                                          reflects a
                                                          neurocentric
                                                          problem
                                                          wherein
                                                          “cognition”
                                                          (perceptual
                                                          processing)
                                                          confounds<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">sensations that lead
                                                          to actions</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>– embodied emotional sensations
                                                          that came on
                                                          the
                                                          evolutionary
                                                          stage well
                                                          before nerve
                                                          nets or
                                                          brains. It is
                                                          emotion that
                                                          is central to
                                                          action,
                                                          behavior and
                                                          motivation.<br class="">
                                                          <br class="">
                                                          Neuroscientist
                                                          Jospeh LeDoux
                                                          made this key
                                                          distinction:</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                                    </div>
                                                    <div class="">
                                                      <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Avenir Book";" class="">Cognitive
                                                          computations</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Avenir Book";" class="">:
                                                          Reflective,
                                                          conscious,
                                                          goal-directed
                                                          thought, often
                                                          linked to
                                                          areas of the
                                                          brain involved
                                                          in higher
                                                          cognitive
                                                          functions.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                                    </div>
                                                    <div class="">
                                                      <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Avenir Book";" class="">Affective
                                                          computations</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Avenir Book";" class="">:
                                                          Automatic,
                                                          unconscious,
                                                          emotional
                                                          processing,
                                                          often linked
                                                          to areas of
                                                          the brain
                                                          involved in
                                                          emotional
                                                          regulation and
                                                          survival
                                                          mechanisms.
                                                          They always
                                                          concern “the
                                                          self” and the
                                                          lead to
                                                          actions.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                                    </div>
                                                    <div class="">
                                                      <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Avenir Book";" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                                    </div>
                                                    <div class="">
                                                      <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Avenir Book";" class="">I
                                                          can paraphrase
                                                          his example…”
                                                          there is a
                                                          huge
                                                          experiential
                                                          difference
                                                          between the
                                                          thought that a
                                                          snake is a
                                                          reptile, that
                                                          its skin can
                                                          be made into
                                                          belts and
                                                          shoes, and the
                                                          thought that a
                                                          snake is
                                                          likely to be
                                                          dangerous.”</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                                    </div>
                                                    <div class="">
                                                      <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Avenir Book";" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
                                                    </div>
                                                    <div class="">
                                                      <div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Aptos, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Avenir Book";" class="">Recall
                                                          my claim that
                                                          emotion in its
                                                          simplest
                                                          binary form –
                                                          akin to
                                                          pleasure or
                                                          pain - carries
                                                          the
                                                          foundational
                                                          semantic
                                                          information
                                                          bit that
                                                          undergirds all
                                                          learning
                                                          systems, but
                                                          emerges from
                                                          the dynamics
                                                          and logic of
                                                          genetic,
                                                          epigenetic and
                                                          immune
                                                          regulation.
                                                          The
                                                          Perception-Action-Cycle
                                                          relies on the
                                                          emotional
                                                          component, so
                                                          IMHO Lou is
                                                          still on safe
                                                          and important
                                                          new ground.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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                                                          Kauffman</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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                                                             1. Re: LOF
                                                          Friday (Pedro
                                                          C. Mariju?n)<br class="">
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                                                          Date: Sun, 12
                                                          Jan 2025
                                                          22:58:21 +0100<br class="">
                                                          From: Pedro C.
                                                          Mariju?n <<a href="mailto:pedroc.marijuan@gmail.com" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">pedroc.marijuan@gmail.com</a>><br class="">
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                                                          Subject: Re:
                                                          [Fis] LOF
                                                          Friday<br class="">
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                                                          Dear List,<br class="">
                                                          <br class="">
                                                          Please, take
                                                          care to post
                                                          properly (as
                                                          the server
                                                          automatically<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          demands), as
                                                          otherwise I
                                                          become rather
                                                          overwhelmed
                                                          wit all the
                                                          different<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          warning
                                                          messages.
                                                          Thanks Lou for
                                                          the tip about
                                                          that.<br class="">
                                                          <br class="">
                                                          Well, I see a
                                                          problem going
                                                          from "percepts
                                                          to concepts"
                                                          as Lou claims<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          below.
                                                          Neuroscience
                                                          has nowadays a
                                                          rare consensus
                                                          on not
                                                          dissociating<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          PERCEPTION and
                                                          ACTION. The
                                                          "Action
                                                          Perception
                                                          Cycle" is the
                                                          most common<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          acceptation.
                                                          The "concept"
                                                          gets? not too
                                                          far from
                                                          either side,
                                                          and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          usually it is
                                                          incorporating
                                                          elements of
                                                          each kind,
                                                          with different<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          predominance.
                                                          Joaqu?n Fuster
                                                          (2008 and 2014
                                                          I think)
                                                          coined the
                                                          term<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          "cognit" to
                                                          refer to the
                                                          intermediate
                                                          stage, having
                                                          both percept
                                                          ears<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          and action
                                                          legs (so to
                                                          speak). The
                                                          union of
                                                          cognits legs
                                                          and ears (or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          legs and legs,
                                                          ears and ears,
                                                          etc.) would
                                                          give birth to
                                                          different
                                                          kinds<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          of concepts,
                                                          and the union
                                                          of concepts
                                                          via shared
                                                          cognits would
                                                          give<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          rise to
                                                          conceptualizations,
                                                          sentences,
                                                          etc. Having
                                                          entered action
                                                          in the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          world scheme
                                                          is not trivial
                                                          at all. Our
                                                          litmus test
                                                          for reality is
                                                          not<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          that the
                                                          percept agrees
                                                          with the
                                                          concept, but
                                                          with the
                                                          action. It is,
                                                          as<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          we consider in
                                                          the world of
                                                          science, the
                                                          whole
                                                          experimental
                                                          part... the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          "fact". As
                                                          Goethe's Faust
                                                          aptly says:
                                                          "In the
                                                          beginning was
                                                          the deed"!<br class="">
                                                          <br class="">
                                                          My other brief
                                                          pill refers
                                                          again to
                                                          autopoiesis. A
                                                          few cellular<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          arguments not
                                                          well tolerated
                                                          (or only
                                                          partially some
                                                          of them) by<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          autopoiesis:<br class="">
                                                          <br class="">
                                                          --The enormous
                                                          cellular
                                                          importance of
                                                          protein
                                                          degradation.
                                                          The world of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          proteasomes
                                                          (the cell
                                                          "industry of
                                                          destruction")
                                                          is
                                                          fascinating,
                                                          even in<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          the simplest
                                                          cells.<br class="">
                                                          --The
                                                          different
                                                          classes of
                                                          programmed
                                                          cell death,
                                                          essentially
                                                          apoptosis,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          is also of
                                                          enormous
                                                          multicell--and
                                                          even
                                                          bacterial--
                                                          importance.<br class="">
                                                          --The
                                                          absorption of
                                                          external DNA
                                                          is quite
                                                          frequent, and
                                                          even customary<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          in some
                                                          bacteria.<br class="">
                                                          --The
                                                          horizontal
                                                          gene
                                                          transmission
                                                          is of great
                                                          evolutionary
                                                          importance<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          too (the world
                                                          of phages,
                                                          plasmids,
                                                          transposons...)<br class="">
                                                          --A number of
                                                          genes in E.
                                                          coli are never
                                                          expressed in a
                                                          regular life<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          cycle (close
                                                          to 30 or 40%,
                                                          depending on
                                                          the
                                                          happenstances)<br class="">
                                                          --The
                                                          revolutionary
                                                          role of
                                                          'external'
                                                          viruses in the
                                                          greatest evo<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          transitions
                                                          (Villarroel,
                                                          Witzany).<br class="">
                                                          <br class="">
                                                          So, even if
                                                          you consider
                                                          these caveats
                                                          fulfilled in
                                                          larger and
                                                          larger<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          definitions of
                                                          autopoiesis,
                                                          there is
                                                          another point
                                                          that may be
                                                          quite<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          troubling:
                                                          information
                                                          flow and
                                                          signaling
                                                          disappear, and
                                                          are
                                                          substituted<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          by the
                                                          structural
                                                          coupling with
                                                          the
                                                          environment
                                                          and the
                                                          observer<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
conceptualization involvement. The big concern is that advancement of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          the life
                                                          cycle, as the
                                                          central hub to
                                                          which
                                                          signaling or
                                                          external flows<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          cohere, and to
                                                          which
                                                          biological
                                                          meaning
                                                          relates, does
                                                          not occupy its<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          explanatory
                                                          essential
                                                          role... while
                                                          adaptively
                                                          advancing the
                                                          life cycle<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          is the silver
                                                          thread that
                                                          connects all
                                                          biological
                                                          world,
                                                          including our<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          own societies.<br class="">
                                                          <br class="">
                                                          I understand
                                                          that for a
                                                          mathematician
                                                          the AP idea is
                                                          quite handy,
                                                          and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          fruitful, but
                                                          for those
                                                          interested in
                                                          the evolution
                                                          of signals,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          sensibility,
                                                          action,
                                                          emotions,
                                                          social
                                                          emotions, etc.
                                                          is perhaps a<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          stumbling
                                                          block to
                                                          overcome. By
                                                          the way, your
                                                          previous post
                                                          to Krassimir<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          on information
                                                          was quite
                                                          valuable, a
                                                          firm
                                                          standpoint
                                                          which I share.
                                                          I<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">
                                                          was trying to
                                                          comment on it,
                                                          but my daily
                                                          schedule is
                                                          bizarre.<br class="">
                                                          <br class="">
                                                          Best--Pedro<br class="">
                                                          <br class="">
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                                                      INFORMACIÓN SOBRE
                                                      PROTECCIÓN DE
                                                      DATOS DE CARÁCTER
                                                      PERSONAL<br class="">
                                                      <br class="">
                                                      Ud. recibe este
                                                      correo por
                                                      pertenecer a una
                                                      lista de correo
                                                      gestionada por la
                                                      Universidad de
                                                      Zaragoza.<br class="">
                                                      Puede encontrar
                                                      toda la
                                                      información sobre
                                                      como tratamos sus
                                                      datos en el
                                                      siguiente enlace:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="" moz-do-not-send="true"><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;" class="">https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas</span></a><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: Helvetica;" class=""><br class="">
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                                                      una lista
                                                      voluntaria Ud.
                                                      puede darse de
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                                          DE DATOS DE CAR�CTER PERSONAL<br class="">
                                          <br class="">
                                          Ud. recibe este correo por
                                          pertenecer a una lista de
                                          correo gestionada por la
                                          Universidad de Zaragoza.<br class="">
                                          Puede encontrar toda la
                                          informaci�n sobre como
                                          tratamos sus datos en el
                                          siguiente enlace:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" moz-do-not-send="true">https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas</a><br class="">
                                          Recuerde que si est� suscrito
                                          a una lista voluntaria Ud.
                                          puede darse de baja desde la
                                          propia aplicaci�n en el
                                          momento en que lo desee.<br class="">
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Ud. recibe este correo por pertenecer a una lista de correo gestionada por la Universidad de Zaragoza.
Puede encontrar toda la información sobre como tratamos sus datos en el siguiente enlace: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas" moz-do-not-send="true">https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas</a>
Recuerde que si está suscrito a una lista voluntaria Ud. puede darse de baja desde la propia aplicación en el momento en que lo desee.
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                  Oxford Advanced Research Foundation <br class="">
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        Dr. Eric Werner, FLS <br class="">
        Oxford Advanced Research Foundation <br class="">
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