Hi All, I have been following this thread with interest as much as time permits. I think multilevel approaches to understanding information flow is an important one. I also think the structure of natural systems exhibits both hierarchical and heterarchical features. The hierarchies we formally recognize can be extremely useful, but they are rarely exclusive of alternatives. Here is a link to a paper Mark Tessera and I published a couple of years ago arguing for one particular hierarchy of multilevel emergence in physical systems connecting lower level physical systems to biological systems:
Tessara, M., and G. A. Hoelzer. 2013. On the thermodynamics of multilevel evolution. Biosystems 113: 140–143. Regards, Guy Guy Hoelzer, Associate Professor Department of Biology University of Nevada Reno Phone: 775-784-4860 Fax: 775-784-1302 hoel...@unr.edu<mailto:hoel...@unr.edu> On Dec 1, 2015, at 6:40 AM, Xueshan Yan <y...@pku.edu.cn<mailto:y...@pku.edu.cn>> wrote: Dear Joshi, No matter what topic/title you used, no matter what goal you want to reach, your post has raised a very important theory which can decide the future of information science: Three Level Theory: Molecular (level1), Cellular (level2), Social (level3). (Please excuse my minor modification). The FIS colleagues can easily recollect the theory of Cell, Brain, Firm which was advocated by Pedro about 10 years ago, but I think this hierarchy is could be much better spent taking some positive action. Social (level3): It can indicate the all human/social information studies. Cellular (level2): It can indicate the all cellular/biological information studies. Molecular (level1): It can indicate the all molecular/chemical information studies. XXXXXXX (level0): Particlate/physical information studies?? As we know, due to the Technological Information Science (It includes computer science and telecommunications) is not self-organizational, or antipoetic, so we generally don't consider it as a real information science. With my best regards! Xueshan Peking University
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