Dear FISers, Just a couple of comments on the many subjects raised last week.
When Koichiro Matsuno discusses several dichotomies related to information, the disjunction he makes between treatment or description by first person and by third person is quite intriguing. I think that in every instance of communication there is a continuous jumping between each other. From first person rumination (not very different in the case of a single cell), generally caught within an undescribable network of selfconstruction processes, information is uttered/poured onto a public channel where it becomes crisp and physical, arriving then to other parties where again it becomes a first person attribute, to be loaded with meaning, value, and so on. In all these endless jumps or info flows, there is an intertwining and influencing of each other realm. And that is dramatically evidenced in the evolution of our own societies, based precisely on the multiplication and acceleration of such info flows... At stake is whether a new info science could be conceived with "the best of both worlds" reconciling the physical and the non-physical (self-constructing) sides of information/communication. In another mindful post, Bill Seaman (nice to hear from people bridging with the social cognition/creativity side) mentions his "recombinant informatics" and "insight engine". Apart from his further semiotic expostulations, not too far from the above I think, the link with the elementary cognitive dynamics of life would also be an aspect to explore. More and more we are realizing that, say, the knowledge-management commonalities of life --cellular, neuronal, social, and scientific-- have been butchered by the disciplinary system. It is discussed in a paper that Raquel, Jorge and me have published about scientomics recently: "From Genomics to Scientomics: Expanding the Bioinformation Paradigm." http://www.mdpi.com/2078-2489/2/4/651/ It is in the special issue of the journal Information where quite many parties of this list also contributed. Well, both comments are related to life--and to the need of new theoretical (informational) biology thought. Best wishes---Pedro
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