<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">Dear Paul, very good point! Let me remind all friends on this list, that "scientists" may be classified into three types: Ontology-centered (arguing about WHAT exists); Epistemology-centered (figuring out HOW do we know what we think we know); and Methodology-centered (searching for HOW do I/we deal with THIS hands-on). For me, I have nothing to do with ontology, therefore I don't engage in debates of opinions about what is what. It is very easy to commit the academic original sin of IARYAW (pronounced as "ee-ah-you," means "I-AM-RIGHT-YOU-ARE-WRONG") in that territory. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">I'm 40% epistemology-centered and 60% methodology-centered. That is why I ask you, the FIS experts, about what are the most important 20% of what you know about Informatics. If a graduate student learning Physics needs to learn 1000 pages of Physics, then a high-school student needs to learn 200 pages to be aware of the basics. That's what I mean 20%. This effort is not for researchers. It is for the whole young generation at large - what these youngsters need is a primer so that they are not informatics-illiterate.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">After all, consciousness or intelligence is all about making decisions, which involves predictions about the consequences of one's actions/non-actions. This is done through something we call "cognitive system," i.e. our brain plus all our neurons busily working together. Human language, formed by concepts or words, are all product/emergence of this cognitive system (first individually, then collectively), including words such as matter, energe, information. I agree that "information" involves living systems' functions - attempting to measurement, drawing distinctions, perceiving differences, etc., all the way to inventing math tools, doing statistics, discovering something named "entropy," and alas, "information"! Here comes an Internet group, who are doctors of "Foundation of Information System" (Sorry, I don't know your original naming of FIS...) </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">So to rephrase my question in much simpler way - what would you teach your kids about what you consider yourself an expert about? If you can distill 20% of what you have been talking/writing/debating and make it useful to your kids, that's what I hope to get from you.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">All the best - Jason</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 27, 2025 at 8:50 AM Paul Suni <<a href="mailto:paul.p.suni@gmail.com">paul.p.suni@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Dear Krassimir Markov,<div><br></div><div><font color="#000000">You stated that “...information cannot exist outside of matter and energy, while the opposite is not true - matter and energy do not depend on information…” With all due respect, you commit a category mistake typical of serious scientists. While there is a scientific consensus that information is always accompanied by matter and energy, it is also true that matter and energy must always exist in some form, thereby carrying information. </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Formlessness is informative only outside of serious science, as a religious concept among spiritual practitioners.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">I challenge you to design a scientific experiment, where matter and energy demonstrably occur without form, information. Yours is a good example of the fallacy of the conflation of the epistemic and ontic domains of reality - an apparently universal mental condition infecting academics.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Cheers,</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Paul</span></div><div><font color="#000000"><span><br id="m_-5928155369297033802lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"></span></font><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jun 27, 2025, at 12:51 AM, Krassimir Markov <<a href="mailto:itheaiss@gmail.com" target="_blank">itheaiss@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;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;text-decoration:none;float:none;display:inline">information cannot exist outside of matter and energy, while the opposite is not true - matter and energy do not depend on information.</span></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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