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Dear FIS colleagues, I keep thinking that the pragmatic way that disciplines interact is important regarding any order/disorder characterization. For instance, let me return to the "water droplet" I mentioned weeks ago. When the water droplet "decides" on its motion, it may be receiving several strong dynamic influences (from the very local, to the most general: a punctual splash, a wave, winds, a tide, a tsunami...). The case is that the concept of "force" running throughout all scales allows the integration or better the "averaging" of any dynamic influence impinging on the system. If the local and general influences cancel among themselves, the droplet will just stay. A remark to make is that the different categories of forces which are efficiently present will be brought to the analysis by particular disciplines (if some relevant factor or discipline was missing in our analysis, the prediction will fail). The difference with the human case is interesting. Let us imagine an individual in a big building, staying at the 25 th flour. Some parties are soliciting him/her say for a dinner at the penthouse (50 flour), while other parties are inviting to a concert at the Atrium (ground flour). Will the individual happily rest on the average 25 th flour, motionless like the droplet? Nope. It is an "informational entity", and in order to make sense of his/her moving-reactions to "meaningful" informations received, we need the overall reference of his life cycle (or an abbreviated set of states, preferences, experiences, etc.). Again, in the scientific analysis a plurality of disciplines are called, even for very trivial cases. Alas, providing the integrative guidelines for the merely mechanical response is pretty well established in our system of knowledge, but a similar construct for informational entities is missing yet. Maybe that quotation from Whitehead I started days ago deserves more attention ("operations of thought are like cavalry charges...") in order to continue the discussion. Seriously, how science, the sciences, are affected by the limitations of the individual? best Pedro PS. I am having troubles with my posting, if this message arrives twice, disregard please the other version. ----
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