<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="color:black">Dear Steve,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="color:black">I respect your opinion and understanding of the world through AE, but
still there are some reasonable scientific boundaries that should not be
crossed. Here is a small example. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="color:black">Air existed before we were born and, I hope, if there is no destructive
war instigated by russia, it will continue to exist after our death. At the
same time, without air we cannot live, i.e. we are an open system that
constantly exchanges resources with the environment. In other words, living
organisms are not autopoietic systems. To convince yourself of this statement,
just stop breathing. The conviction in the truth of the statement will come to
you only after a minute or two and you will probably accept that your operator
should be written</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="color:black">O=F(O, Input, Output).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="color:black">I am writing this in connection with your statement that "Material
processes and interpretive activity are not alternatives; they are two sides of
the same ecological dynamic. Neither can be shown to precede the other.” which
I cannot accept as true.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="color:black">Just as there are no closed autopoietic systems, so there is no reality
that cannot exist without interpretation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="color:black">The ecological dynamic you are
talking about is a mental structure and, of course, in it properly the mental
structures that reflect the material processes and the mental structures that
interpret them are dialectically connected in consciousness, and yes - they are
two sides of a common mental structure, if we can even talk about sides in
mental structures.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="color:black">Dear Eric,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="color:black">I completely agree with your thoughts. Indeed, the study of the
processes of interaction between people is very important and has great
significance. Unfortunately, my impression is that most researchers adhere to
the deeply erroneous and inapplicable to humans Shannon's paradigm.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="color:black">Yes, the theory of signal transmission is wonderfully applied in
technical data transmission systems, where the basic principle is
"copy/paste". In other words, the image that is formed in the
recipient's memory completely (100%!!!) coincides with the image in the
sender's memory. Any deviation is considered an error and requires re-sending
the data, as well as the application of error-resistant codes during
transmission.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="color:black">In humans, this is absolutely impossible and inapplicable.
"Copy/paste" cannot happen due to the nature of the interaction
between people, which is at the level of meaning, and not at the level of
signals (reflections). The sender (a person or group of people) externalizes
their mental structures (for example, this letter), and the recipient reflects
what they have received and gives it their own meaning. It is impossible in
this process to obtain an exact copy of the image from the source's memory in
the receiver's memory. Therefore, it is correct to speak of "information
interaction" in people, and of "communication" in technical systems. I am
attaching a slide from my lecture at the IS4SI 2025 Summit, which contains the
brilliant thought of the Bulgarian poet Pencho Slaveykov, expressed more than a
century ago.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="color:black"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;line-height:115%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,"sans-serif""><span style="color:black">With respect,</span></p>
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