Dear FISers,
Looking for an informational explanation of soccer, or other sports, as
was asking Joseph, one can look at the internal side of the event. Then,
as Jorge and Bob have done, one can discuss about the panorama of
networking relationships or the "ascendancy" of the different elements.
While agreeing with the interest of these approaches, one can also look
towards the outside and ask about the social importance attributed to
such type of spectacles. It is interesting that today a lot of economic
activities, like sports, may be ascribed to ephemeral "information
production" --think of entertainment, news, fashions, e-networks,
communications, tourism, etc. Maybe this is the fastest growing segment,
even in spite of the global crisis. Why the increasing predominance of
"panem et circenses"?
An speculative point may be that complex societies are caught into a
information paradox. The higher they grow in their aggregate complexity
the lower the structure of basic social relations (and interesting
information) around the individual. According to Dunbar's "social brain
hypothesis", these complex societies deviate progressively from the
evolutionary networking structure of our species. Thus "info" surrogates
of whatever type are more and more necessary for the individual and for
the society as a whole, although probably they are working worse and
worse. If this is so, it makes sense that in the "information era"
depression has become the first incapacitating pathology (above flu).
Unfortunately, the victory at the world championship has been so ephemeral!
best wishes
Pedro
PS. As a question to Karl: in what extent are directed graphs (or
generic networks) equivalent to multidimensional partitions? Would it
make sense the description of "ascendancy" in terms of partitions?
Robert Ulanowicz escribió:
Dear Jorge and Fis members:
The method is intriguing, but rather ad-hoc.
I and colleagues in marine science have directly used
information-theoretic indexes to evaluate the dynamically most
important nodes and links in a quantified network. I'm convinced it
could be applied as well to players on a team:
Ulanowicz, R.E. and D. Baird. 1999. Nutrient controls on ecosystem
dynamics: The Chesapeake mesohaline community. J. Mar.
Sys. 19:159-172
The best,
Bob Ulanowicz
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Quoting Jorge Navarro López <jnavarro.i...@aragon.es>:
Dear FIS collegaes,
Hi! This is my first posting in the list. My name is Jorge Navarro
and I am working with Pedro on Systems Biology and Network Science.
Following with Joseph proposal I have found an interesting paper
about a satisfactory theory of information applicable to teamwork
sports:
*Quantifying the Performance of Individual Players in a Team Activity*
http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0010937
I think that formally one can say a lot about what teamship
activities become interesting and exciting to watch, and what other
activities are dull and boring.
I was playing soccer myself until a few years ago (forward), like
Villa :-), and I am very interested in the informational side of
sports, soccer of course.
VIVA ESPAÑA!!!
Kind Regards
Jorge
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