[Fis] Fw: social flow. Finding correspondences

2013-11-23 Thread Joseph Brenner
Dear Colleagues Pedro wrote: Actually most of our social exchanges are supradetermined by status, self-image, ambitions, affinity, collective identities, deception, self-deception, attraction, etc. Rather than noise, it is life itself! Haven't we a lot of work to be done in these essential mat

Re: [Fis] social flow

2013-11-23 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Dear colleagues, It seems to me that one can use models from biology to study inter-human communication; but inter-human communication is not alive. The dynamics are non-linear, but probably very different from the dynamics among molecules. For example, counterfactual orders can be shaped

Re: [Fis] social flow

2013-11-23 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Dear colleagues, It seems to me that one can use models from biology to study inter-human communication; but inter-human communication is not alive. The dynamics are non-linear, but probably very different from the dynamics among molecules. For example, counterfactual orders can be shaped

[Fis] FW: social flow

2013-11-23 Thread Christophe
Dear Pedro, The framework you present is interesting and deserves some comments. You write: “Without entering self-production of the living there can be no sense, no meaning”. I agree. You positions meaning generation with the coming up of life in evolution, assuming there is no meaning gener

Re: [Fis] social flow

2013-11-23 Thread PEDRO CLEMENTE MARIJUAN FERNANDEZ
Dear FIS colleagues, Many thanks for the comments exchanged. Welcome to Roly, the first party of the Xian's conference publishing in the list (I mean concerning the invited speakers, as Bi-Lin who also posted recently was a Xian participant too). I agree with Roli's interpretation and Joseph's