<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Dear colleagues,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"><br></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">1. People externalize their mental models by using different languages -
linear and/or nonlinear, general and/or specialized.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Usually, we call externalized mental models knowledge.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">What I want to note is that there is no initial assumption, which
language is better and which is worse. In each specific case, people use one
language or another, and most often - hybrid language forms.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Ultimately, the wealth of languages is the basis for the development of
civilization, which the parable of the Tower of Babel reminds us of.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">This was also defended by St. Cyril before the Vatican, which as a
result recognized the Bulgarian language as the third sacred language of
Christianity, along with Latin and Greek. But this does not oppose these languages
to the others, for example, Chinese or Japanese.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"><b>Therefore, I do not accept it as good to oppose the language of biology
to those of mathematics and physics.</b></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">The synergy of languages gives a better result.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">2. The main task of science is to develop specialized languages for
representing mental models, reflecting different entities of reality.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Information studies as a science are no exception. They need their own language
constructs that are convenient for reasoning and interaction.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Such constructs are offered by the General Information Theory (GIT).</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Here I will recall four concepts from GIT that are relevant to the topic
of the present discussion.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">The first concept is "<b>Infos</b>".</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">To avoid misunderstandings with the concepts subject, agent, animal,
human, society, humanity, living creatures, etc., we use the abstract concept
“INFOS” to denote every of them as well as all of the artificial creatures
which have features similar to the former ones. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Within the concept of Infos, three concepts have been introduced that
serve to distinguish active entities of living, non-living (machines) and
hybrid.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">The basis for this division is the way in which these
entities reproduce.</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">At the moment, we know that the only entities that reproduce on the
basis of genes are living entities. They are represented by the concept of
"<b>Infogen</b>".</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">The non-living active entities, which in the framework of this
discussion are called “machines”, can be reproduced in an electro-mechanical
way without the use of genes. Therefore, the non-living active entity is called
"<b>Infotron</b>".</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">Finally, we all witness the integration of living and non-living
entities to achieve various goals. Such a hybrid entity is called "<b>Infohybrid</b>".</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%">With respect,</span></p>

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