Re: [Fis] PRINCIPLES OF IS

[ZouXiaohui]

a pair of information for any brain and any computer and any kind of another 
body


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-- Original --
From: ZouXiaohui <949309...@qq.com>
Date: ,9?? 16,2017 8:15 
To: Pedro C. Marijuan , fis , 
deacon 
Cc: ?? 
Subject: Re: [Fis] PRINCIPLES OF IS




0-10zou's view PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION SCIENCE

0??its unit??. a bit of it ??in information theory??or a pair of it??Xiaohui 
ZOU??

1??three basic categories??. Information is information, neither matter nor 
energy.

2??form of it??. Information is comprehended into structures, patterns, 
messages, or flows.

3??it both for Brain and computer??. Information can be recognized, can be 
measured, and can be  processed (either computationally or non-computationally).

4??and for life??. Information flows are essential organizers of life's 
self-production processes--anticipating, shaping, and mixing up with the 
accompanying energy flows.

5??it can inform between bodies or from one to another??. 
Communication/information exchanges among adaptive life-cycles underlie the 
complexity of biological organizations at all scales.

6??it main form as language??. It is symbolic language what conveys the 
essential communication exchanges of the human species--and constitutes the 
core of its "social nature." 

7??it can be known??. Human information may be systematically converted into 
efficient knowledge, by following the "knowledge instinct" and further up by 
applying rigorous methodologies.

8??but it difficulty to know all about it??. Human cognitive limitations on 
knowledge accumulation are partially overcome via the social organization of 
"knowledge ecologies." 


9??it is helpful for creativity??. Knowledge circulates and recombines 
socially, in a continuous actualization that involves "creative destruction" of 
fields and disciplines: the intellectual Ars Magna. 


10??see it in scientific way??. Information science proposes a new, radical 
vision on the information and knowledge flows that support individual lives, 
with profound consequences for scientific-philosophical practice and for social 
governance. 



iPhone

-- Original --
From: Pedro C. Marijuan 
Date: ,9?? 15,2017 8:15 
To: 'fis' 
Subject: Re: [Fis] PRINCIPLES OF IS



   Dear FIS Colleagues,
 
 As promised herewith the "10 principles of information science". A 
couple of previous comments may be in order. 
 First, what is in general the role of principles in science? I was 
motivated by the unfinished work of philosopher Ortega y Gasset, "The idea 
of principle in Leibniz and the evolution of deductive theory" 
(posthumously published in 1958). Our tentative information science seems 
to be very different from other sciences, rather multifarious in appearance 
and concepts, and cavalierly moving from scale to scale. What could be the 
specific role of principles herein? Rather than opening homogeneous realms 
for conceptual development, these information principles would appear as a 
sort of "portals" that connect with essential topics of other disciplines 
in the different organization layers, but at the same time they should 
try to be consistent with each other and provide a coherent vision of the 
information world.
 And second, about organizing the present discussion, I bet I was too 
optimistic with the commentators scheme. In any case, for having a first 
glance on the whole scheme, the opinions of philosophers would be very 
interesting. In order to warm up the discussion, may I ask John Collier, 
Joseph Brenner and Rafael Capurro to send some initial comments / 
criticisms? Later on, if the commentators idea flies, Koichiro Matsuno and 
Wolfgang Hofkirchner would be very valuable voices to put a perspectival 
end to this info principles discussion (both attended the Madrid bygone FIS 
1994 conference)... 
 But this is FIS list, unpredictable in between the frozen states and 
the chaotic states! So, everybody is invited to get ahead at his own, with 
the only customary limitation of two messages per week.
 
 Best wishes, have a good weekend --Pedro
 
 
10 PRINCIPLES   OF INFORMATION SCIENCE
 
1. Information is information, neither matter nor energy.
 
2. Information is comprehended into structures, patterns,   messages, or 
flows.
 
3. Information can be recognized, can be measured, and can beprocessed 
(either computationally or non-computationally).
 
4. Information flows are essential organizers of life's   self-production 
processes--anticipating, shaping, and mixing up   with the accompanying 
energy flows.
 
5. Communication/information 

Re: [Fis] INFORMATION: JUST A MATTER OF MATH

[Guy A Hoelzer]

I agree with Arturo.  I understand information exclusively as matter and 
energy, and the diversity of their states through space/time.  What else it 
there?  The alternative would be to accept ‘information’ as merely an heuristic 
concept that helps us to communicate and make sense of our lives without the 
goal of identifying real phenomena.  I think the freedom to create and use such 
heuristic concepts is essential for many reasons, but we are constantly 
challenged as scientists with distinguishing between these terms and those we 
think and hope approximate real phenomena.  A grad student I worked with 
suggested the term “tool words” to label terms we recognize as mainly 
heuristic.  As an evolutionary biologist, I would suggest the term “fitness” 
has been a very useful heuristic term, but that “fitness” does not actually 
exist.  This statement might surprise or even put off many of my colleagues, 
which I think illustrates the problem caused by failing to make this 
distinction explicit.  As I have argued before, I think clearly distinguishing 
between ‘information’ and ‘meaning’ would be a good first step in this 
direction.

Regards,

Guy

Guy Hoelzer, Associate Professor
Department of Biology
University of Nevada Reno

Phone:  775-784-4860
Fax:  775-784-1302



On Sep 15, 2017, at 6:16 AM, 
tozziart...@libero.it wrote:

Dear FISers,
I'm sorry for bothering you,
but I start not to agree from the very first principles.

The only language able to describe and quantify scientific issues is 
mathematics.
Without math, you do not have observables, and information is observable.
Therefore, information IS energy or matter, and can be examined through 
entropies (such as., e.g., the Bekenstein-Hawking one).

And, please, colleagues, do not start to write that information is subjective 
and it depends on the observer's mind. This issue has been already tackled by 
the math of physics: science already predicts that information can be 
"subjective", in the MATHEMATICAL frameworks of both relativity and quantum 
dynamics' Copenhagen interpretation.
Therefore, the subjectivity of information is clearly framed in a TOTALLY 
physical context of matter and energy.

Sorry for my polemic ideas, but, if you continue to define information on the 
basis of qualitative (and not quantitative) science, information becomes 
metaphysics, or sociology, or psychology (i.e., branches with doubtful 
possibility of achieving knowledge, due to their current lack of math).



Arturo Tozzi

AA Professor Physics, University North Texas

Pediatrician ASL Na2Nord, Italy

Comput Intell Lab, University Manitoba

http://arturotozzi.webnode.it/


Messaggio originale
Da: "Pedro C. Marijuan" 
>
Data: 15/09/2017 14.13
A: "fis">
Ogg: [Fis] PRINCIPLES OF IS

Dear FIS Colleagues,

As promised herewith the "10 principles of information science". A couple of 
previous comments may be in order.
First, what is in general the role of principles in science? I was motivated by 
the unfinished work of philosopher Ortega y Gasset, "The idea of principle in 
Leibniz and the evolution of deductive theory" (posthumously published in 
1958). Our tentative information science seems to be very different from other 
sciences, rather multifarious in appearance and concepts, and cavalierly moving 
from scale to scale. What could be the specific role of principles herein? 
Rather than opening homogeneous realms for conceptual development, these 
information principles would appear as a sort of "portals" that connect with 
essential topics of other disciplines in the different organization layers, but 
at the same time they should try to be consistent with each other and provide a 
coherent vision of the information world.
And second, about organizing the present discussion, I bet I was too optimistic 
with the commentators scheme. In any case, for having a first glance on the 
whole scheme, the opinions of philosophers would be very interesting. In order 
to warm up the discussion, may I ask John Collier, Joseph Brenner and Rafael 
Capurro to send some initial comments / criticisms? Later on, if the 
commentators idea flies, Koichiro Matsuno and Wolfgang Hofkirchner would be 
very valuable voices to put a perspectival end to this info principles 
discussion (both attended the Madrid bygone FIS 1994 conference)...
But this is FIS list, unpredictable in between the frozen states and the 
chaotic states! So, everybody is invited to get ahead at his own, with the only 
customary limitation of two messages per week.

Best wishes, have a good weekend --Pedro


10 PRINCIPLES OF 

[Fis] INFORMATION: A RECOGNIZED STATE OF MATTER

[Krassimir Markov]

Dear Pedro, Arturo, Michel, and FIS Colleagues,

First of all, friendly greetings to everybody for the new FIS Season!
It is nice to meet all of you again in the FIS List  – alive and, I hope,
healthy as it is possible!

Energy and the Matter ARE ONE AND THE SAME!
Let remember the Great Albert's formula:

E=m*C*C

which means that the Energy and the Matter are two sides of one coin.

What about the information?
Why Einstein did not mentioned it in his theories?

The answer is simple – the information is a kind of material reflection
and could not be separated from the matter.

Of course, if one believes in God, it could, but we already have discussed
this ...

Because of this, the First principle is not good!
I do not agree, that: 1. Information is information, neither matter nor
energy.

Information is a state of matter which may be recognized by the (live)
subject.

Let see two examples:

CASE 1: About the relativity of concepts and importance to have common
understanding at least of the main concepts

Once upon the time, a man entered in a restaurant and asked the waiter:
- Please, give me a portion of fried information, processed following the
algorithm of John Montagu.
- OK, Sir! What kind of information you prefer – primary or secondary? –
answered the waiter.
- Secondary, please!
- Sir, can you make more clear what you mean when say “secondary”? The
problem is that nobody knows what information is primary and what –
secondary, and we always have difficulties.
-  I don’t know!  Give me both...
What the man received ?

CASE 2: The information is NOT mathematical concept

2x+2x=5x
Is it true?

ANSWERS:

CASE 1:

John Montagu had been the 4th Earl of Sandwich.
The man received a sandwich with fried egg and one with fried chicken.


CASE 2:

YES!

Please see the scheme below – two rectangles + two rectangles = five
recognized rectangles!


  -
- -   |   |   |
|   |   |+|   |   |   =   +
- -   |   |   |
  -




At the end, let me inform you about one our paper published in the
International Journal INFORMATION THEORIES & APPLICATIONS, VOLUME 24,
NUMBER 2, 2017; pages 103-114:

Comparison Software Systems Based on Information Quality Measuring
http://www.foibg.com/ijita/vol24/ijita24-02-p01.pdf

In this paper we outlined how GIT can be used for solving practical problems.
And, maybe, in it, one may find the basis of my words above...

Respectfully yours
Krassimir






From: tozziart...@libero.it
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2017 4:16 PM
To: Pedro C. Marijuan ; fis@listas.unizar.es
Subject: [Fis] INFORMATION: JUST A MATTER OF MATH

Dear FISers,
I'm sorry for bothering you,
but I start not to agree from the very first principles.

The only language able to describe and quantify scientific issues is
mathematics.
Without math, you do not have observables, and information is observable.
Therefore, information IS energy or matter, and can be examined through
entropies (such as., e.g., the Bekenstein-Hawking one).

And, please, colleagues, do not start to write that information is
subjective and it depends on the observer's mind. This issue has been
already tackled by the math of physics: science already predicts that
information can be "subjective", in the MATHEMATICAL frameworks of both
relativity and quantum dynamics' Copenhagen interpretation.
Therefore, the subjectivity of information is clearly framed in a TOTALLY
physical context of matter and energy.

Sorry for my polemic ideas, but, if you continue to define information on
the basis of qualitative (and not quantitative) science, information
becomes metaphysics, or sociology, or psychology (i.e., branches with
doubtful possibility of achieving knowledge, due to their current lack of
math).




Arturo Tozzi

AA Professor Physics, University North Texas

Pediatrician ASL Na2Nord, Italy

Comput Intell Lab, University Manitoba

http://arturotozzi.webnode.it/





Messaggio originale
Da: "Pedro C. Marijuan" 
Data: 15/09/2017 14.13
A: "fis"
Ogg: [Fis] PRINCIPLES OF IS

Dear FIS Colleagues,

As promised herewith the "10 principles of information science". A couple
of previous comments may be in order.
First, what is in general the role of principles in science? I was
motivated by the unfinished work of philosopher Ortega y Gasset, "The idea
of principle in Leibniz and the evolution of deductive theory"
(posthumously published in 1958). Our tentative information science seems
to be very different from other sciences, rather multifarious in
appearance and concepts, and cavalierly moving from scale to scale. What
could be the specific role of principles herein? Rather than opening
homogeneous realms for conceptual development, these information
principles would appear as a sort of "portals" that connect with essential
topics of other disciplines in the 

Re: [Fis] INFORMATION: JUST A MATTER OF MATH

[Michel Petitjean]

Dear Pedro, dear Arturo and dear FISers,

Thank you Pedro for these 10 principles of information science.
Even if it happens that somebody could disagree with some of these
principles, at least these 10 principles exist and they constitute a
suitable basis (if not a reference) for further discussions and
refinements.

I agree with the principle 1, in the sense that, in my opinion
information is not physical: it is in our heads, either as a
mathematical model of some physical situation, or as a concept we need
to deal with some real situation.
An observed physical phenomenon should not be confused with any
mathematical model produced by scientists to get a more or less
simplified description of this phenomenon.
E.g., the thermodynamical entropy can be modeled by an equation
formally identical to the well-known one used in communication
science.
Does it mean the informational entropy and the thermodynamical entropy
are the same thing because both lead to a common equation?
I do not believe so: one word, two meanings.
Then, the possibility to measure information in communication science
does not mean that information becomes a physical quantity in other
contexts, such as matter (the case of energy is more complex, I skip
it).
Finally, why not try to define information in metaphysics, sociology
or psychology?
Dictionnaries contain thousands of words defined without the help of
mathematics, and fortunately these definitions are of great help in
most situations.
However, finding a unifying definition of information is still a challenge.
But is it feasible? Is it desirable?
I don't know...

Best regards,

Michel.

Michel Petitjean
MTi, INSERM UMR-S 973, University Paris 7,
35 rue Helene Brion, 75205 Paris Cedex 13, France.
Phone: +331 5727 8434; Fax: +331 5727 8372
E-mail: petitjean.chi...@gmail.com (preferred),
michel.petitj...@univ-paris-diderot.fr
http://petitjeanmichel.free.fr/itoweb.petitjean.html

/*

Unifying symmetry definition in maths:
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01552499


Recent highlight: chirality can be defined without the help of any
orientation concept:

Chirality in metric spaces. In memoriam Michel Deza.
Optim. Letters, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11590-017-1189-7

*/

2017-09-15 15:16 GMT+02:00 tozziart...@libero.it :
> Dear FISers,
> I'm sorry for bothering you,
> but I start not to agree from the very first principles.
>
> The only language able to describe and quantify scientific issues is 
> mathematics.
> Without math, you do not have observables, and information is observable.
> Therefore, information IS energy or matter, and can be examined through 
> entropies (such as., e.g., the Bekenstein-Hawking one).
>
> And, please, colleagues, do not start to write that information is subjective 
> and it depends on the observer's mind. This issue has been already tackled by 
> the math of physics: science already predicts that information can be 
> "subjective", in the MATHEMATICAL frameworks of both relativity and quantum 
> dynamics' Copenhagen interpretation.
> Therefore, the subjectivity of information is clearly framed in a TOTALLY 
> physical context of matter and energy.
>
> Sorry for my polemic ideas, but, if you continue to define information on the 
> basis of qualitative (and not quantitative) science, information becomes 
> metaphysics, or sociology, or psychology (i.e., branches with doubtful 
> possibility of achieving knowledge, due to their current lack of math).
>
>
> Arturo Tozzi
>
> AA Professor Physics, University North Texas
>
> Pediatrician ASL Na2Nord, Italy
>
> Comput Intell Lab, University Manitoba
>
> http://arturotozzi.webnode.it/
>
>
>
> Messaggio originale
> Da: "Pedro C. Marijuan" 
> Data: 15/09/2017 14.13
> A: "fis"
> Ogg: [Fis] PRINCIPLES OF IS
>
> Dear FIS Colleagues,
>
> As promised herewith the "10 principles of information science". A couple of 
> previous comments may be in order.
> First, what is in general the role of principles in science? I was motivated 
> by the unfinished work of philosopher Ortega y Gasset, "The idea of principle 
> in Leibniz and the evolution of deductive theory" (posthumously published in 
> 1958). Our tentative information science seems to be very different from 
> other sciences, rather multifarious in appearance and concepts, and 
> cavalierly moving from scale to scale. What could be the specific role of 
> principles herein? Rather than opening homogeneous realms for conceptual 
> development, these information principles would appear as a sort of "portals" 
> that connect with essential topics of other disciplines in the different 
> organization layers, but at the same time they should try to be consistent 
> with each other and provide a coherent vision of the information world.
> And second, about organizing the present discussion, I bet I was too 
> optimistic with the commentators scheme. In any case, for having a first 

Re: [Fis] INFORMATION: JUST A MATTER OF MATH

[Jose Javier Blanco Rivero]

Dear Arturo,

Math is indeed a language that CAN describe scientific issues, but it is
not the only one. And its ability to cuantify scientific issues do not
necesarily make it superior.
Math and natural language face the same formal and logical problems: they
cannot make staments about themselves without falling into contradictions
or paradoxes (as can be inferred from Gödel).
And your statement is certainly self-contradictory: if it is true then it
is contradicted by the form of its performance (semantics).

Best regards,
El sep 15, 2017 10:17 AM, "tozziart...@libero.it" 
escribió:

Dear FISers,
I'm sorry for bothering you,
but I start not to agree from the very first principles.

The only language able to describe and quantify scientific issues is
mathematics.
Without math, you do not have observables, and information is observable.
Therefore, information IS energy or matter, and can be examined through
entropies (such as., e.g., the Bekenstein-Hawking one).

And, please, colleagues, do not start to write that information is
subjective and it depends on the observer's mind. This issue has been
already tackled by the math of physics: science already predicts that
information can be "subjective", in the MATHEMATICAL frameworks of both
relativity and quantum dynamics' Copenhagen interpretation.
Therefore, the subjectivity of information is clearly framed in a TOTALLY
physical context of matter and energy.

Sorry for my polemic ideas, but, if you continue to define information on
the basis of qualitative (and not quantitative) science, information
becomes metaphysics, or sociology, or psychology (i.e., branches with
doubtful possibility of achieving knowledge, due to their current lack of
math).


*Arturo Tozzi*

AA Professor Physics, University North Texas

Pediatrician ASL Na2Nord, Italy

Comput Intell Lab, University Manitoba

http://arturotozzi.webnode.it/


Messaggio originale
Da: "Pedro C. Marijuan" 
Data: 15/09/2017 14.13
A: "fis"
Ogg: [Fis] PRINCIPLES OF IS

Dear FIS Colleagues,

As promised herewith the "10 principles of information science". A couple
of previous comments may be in order.
First, what is in general the role of principles in science? I was
motivated by the unfinished work of philosopher Ortega y Gasset, "The idea
of principle in Leibniz and the evolution of deductive theory"
(posthumously published in 1958). Our tentative information science seems
to be very different from other sciences, rather multifarious in appearance
and concepts, and cavalierly moving from scale to scale. What could be the
specific role of principles herein? Rather than opening homogeneous realms
for conceptual development, these information principles would appear as a
sort of "portals" that connect with essential topics of other disciplines
in the different organization layers, but at the same time they should try
to be consistent with each other and provide a coherent vision of the
information world.
And second, about organizing the present discussion, I bet I was too
optimistic with the commentators scheme. In any case, for having a first
glance on the whole scheme, the opinions of philosophers would be very
interesting. In order to warm up the discussion, may I ask John Collier,
Joseph Brenner and Rafael Capurro to send some initial comments /
criticisms? Later on, if the commentators idea flies, Koichiro Matsuno and
Wolfgang Hofkirchner would be very valuable voices to put a perspectival
end to this info principles discussion (both attended the Madrid bygone FIS
1994 conference)...
But this is FIS list, unpredictable in between the frozen states and the
chaotic states! So, everybody is invited to get ahead at his own, with the
only customary limitation of two messages per week.

Best wishes, have a good weekend --Pedro

*10 **PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION SCIENCE*

1. Information is information, neither matter nor energy.

2. Information is comprehended into structures, patterns, messages, or
flows.

3. Information can be recognized, can be measured, and can be  processed
(either computationally or non-computationally).

4. Information flows are essential organizers of life's self-production
processes--anticipating, shaping, and mixing up with the accompanying
energy flows.

5. Communication/information exchanges among adaptive life-cycles underlie
the complexity of biological organizations at all scales.

6. It is symbolic language what conveys the essential communication
exchanges of the human species--and constitutes the core of its "social
nature."

7. Human information may be systematically converted into efficient
knowledge, by following the "knowledge instinct" and further up by applying
rigorous methodologies.

8. Human cognitive limitations on knowledge accumulation are partially
overcome via the social organization of "knowledge ecologies."

9. Knowledge circulates and recombines socially, in a continuous
actualization 

[Fis] INFORMATION: JUST A MATTER OF MATH

[tozziart...@libero.it]

Dear FISers, I'm sorry for bothering you, but I start not to agree from the 
very first principles.
The only language able to describe and quantify scientific issues is 
mathematics.Without math, you do not have observables, and information is 
observable. Therefore, information IS energy or matter, and can be examined 
through entropies (such as., e.g., the Bekenstein-Hawking one).
And, please, colleagues, do not start to write that information is subjective 
and it depends on the observer's mind. This issue has been already tackled by 
the math of physics: science already predicts that information can be 
"subjective", in the MATHEMATICAL frameworks of both relativity and quantum 
dynamics' Copenhagen interpretation.  Therefore, the subjectivity of 
information is clearly framed in a TOTALLY physical context of matter and 
energy.  
Sorry for my polemic ideas, but, if you continue to define information on the 
basis of qualitative (and not quantitative) science, information becomes 
metaphysics, or sociology, or psychology (i.e., branches with doubtful 
possibility of achieving knowledge, due to their current lack of math). 

Arturo TozziAA Professor Physics, University North TexasPediatrician ASL 
Na2Nord, ItalyComput Intell Lab, University 
Manitobahttp://arturotozzi.webnode.it/ 





Messaggio originale

Da: "Pedro C. Marijuan" 

Data: 15/09/2017 14.13

A: "fis"

Ogg: [Fis] PRINCIPLES OF IS




  
  
Dear FIS Colleagues,



As promised herewith the "10 principles of information science". A
couple of previous comments may be in order. 

First, what is in general the role of principles in science? I was
motivated by the unfinished work of philosopher Ortega y Gasset,
"The idea of principle in Leibniz and the evolution of deductive
theory" (posthumously published in 1958). Our tentative information
science seems to be very different from other sciences, rather
multifarious in appearance and concepts, and cavalierly moving from
scale to scale. What could be the specific role of principles
herein? Rather than opening homogeneous realms for conceptual
development, these information principles would appear as a sort of
"portals" that connect with essential topics of other disciplines in
the different organization layers, but at the same time they should
try to be consistent with each other and provide a coherent vision
of the information world.

And second, about organizing the present discussion, I bet I was too
optimistic with the commentators scheme. In any case, for having a
first glance on the whole scheme, the opinions of philosophers would
be very interesting. In order to warm up the discussion, may I ask
John Collier, Joseph Brenner and Rafael Capurro to send some initial
comments / criticisms? Later on, if the commentators idea flies,
Koichiro Matsuno and Wolfgang Hofkirchner would be very valuable
voices to put a perspectival end to this info principles discussion
(both attended the Madrid bygone FIS 1994 conference)... 

But this is FIS list, unpredictable in between the frozen states and
the chaotic states! So, everybody is invited to get ahead at his
own, with the only customary limitation of two messages per week.



Best wishes, have a good weekend --Pedro



10 PRINCIPLES
  OF INFORMATION SCIENCE

1. Information is information, neither matter nor energy.

2. Information is comprehended into structures, patterns,
  messages, or flows.

3. Information can be recognized, can be measured, and can be 
  processed (either computationally or non-computationally).

4. Information flows are essential organizers of life's
  self-production processes--anticipating, shaping, and mixing up
  with the accompanying energy flows.

5. Communication/information exchanges among adaptive life-cycles
  underlie the complexity of biological organizations at all scales.

6. It is symbolic language what conveys the essential
  communication exchanges of the human species--and constitutes the
  core of its "social nature." 

7. Human information may be systematically converted into
  efficient knowledge, by following the "knowledge instinct" and
  further up by applying rigorous methodologies.

8. Human cognitive limitations on knowledge accumulation are
  partially overcome via the social organization of "knowledge
  ecologies." 



9. Knowledge circulates and recombines socially, in a continuous
  actualization that involves "creative destruction" of fields and
  disciplines: the intellectual Ars Magna. 



10. Information science proposes a new, radical vision on the
  information and knowledge flows that support individual lives,
  with profound consequences for scientific-philosophical practice
  and for 

[Fis] PRINCIPLES OF IS

[Pedro C. Marijuan]

Dear FIS Colleagues,

As promised herewith the "10 principles of information science". A 
couple of previous comments may be in order.
First, what is in general the role of principles in science? I was 
motivated by the unfinished work of philosopher Ortega y Gasset, "The 
idea of principle in Leibniz and the evolution of deductive theory" 
(posthumously published in 1958). Our tentative information science 
seems to be very different from other sciences, rather multifarious in 
appearance and concepts, and cavalierly moving from scale to scale. What 
could be the specific role of principles herein? Rather than opening 
homogeneous realms for conceptual development, these information 
principles would appear as a sort of "portals" that connect with 
essential topics of other disciplines in the different organization 
layers, but at the same time they should try to be consistent with each 
other and provide a coherent vision of the information world.
And second, about organizing the present discussion, I bet I was too 
optimistic with the commentators scheme. In any case, for having a first 
glance on the whole scheme, the opinions of philosophers would be very 
interesting. In order to warm up the discussion, may I ask John Collier, 
Joseph Brenner and Rafael Capurro to send some initial comments / 
criticisms? Later on, if the commentators idea flies, Koichiro Matsuno 
and Wolfgang Hofkirchner would be very valuable voices to put a 
perspectival end to this info principles discussion (both attended the 
Madrid bygone FIS 1994 conference)...
But this is FIS list, unpredictable in between the frozen states and the 
chaotic states! So, everybody is invited to get ahead at his own, with 
the only customary limitation of two messages per week.


Best wishes, have a good weekend --Pedro

*10 **PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION SCIENCE*

1. Information is information, neither matter nor energy.

2. Information is comprehended into structures, patterns, messages, or 
flows.


3. Information can be recognized, can be measured, and can be processed 
(either computationally or non-computationally).


4. Information flows are essential organizers of life's self-production 
processes--anticipating, shaping, and mixing up with the accompanying 
energy flows.


5. Communication/information exchanges among adaptive life-cycles 
underlie the complexity of biological organizations at all scales.


6. It is symbolic language what conveys the essential communication 
exchanges of the human species--and constitutes the core of its "social 
nature."


7. Human information may be systematically converted into efficient 
knowledge, by following the "knowledge instinct" and further up by 
applying rigorous methodologies.


8. Human cognitive limitations on knowledge accumulation are partially 
overcome via the social organization of "knowledge ecologies."


9. Knowledge circulates and recombines socially, in a continuous 
actualization that involves "creative destruction" of fields and 
disciplines: the intellectual /Ars Magna./


10. Information science proposes a new, radical vision on the 
information and knowledge flows that support individual lives, with 
profound consequences for scientific-philosophical practice and for 
social governance.


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Pedro C. Marijuán
Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group
Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud
Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Aragón (CIBA)
Avda. San Juan Bosco, 13, planta 0
50009 Zaragoza, Spain
Tfno. +34 976 71 3526 (& 6818)
pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es
http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/
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