Dear Howard and colleagues,
Once settled most of the dust, the balance seems to favor the need to
disentangle the two phenomena, biotic communication vs. particulate
"excommunication". As some FISers have suggested, maybe a revised
conceptualization of the generative phenomena in the quantum could turn
out to approach and even to equate the two phenomena.
Is it of any importance clearly tying communication to life, to the
advancement of the life cycle? I think so. On the one side, we
naturalize freewheeling approaches to meaning and to some other
informational concepts (signals, adaptation, value, intelligence). On
the other side, quite many events of human life (social info flows)
either of the technological realm, or economic, legal or political,
would receive a more rational grounding or a higher level framework to
conceptually adjust. It is the primacy of life, at all levels.
Even the Lucifer Principle, the leit motif of this New Year Lecture, may
be formulated with improved cogency in that way. Both super-organisms
and pecking order are direct products of communication phenomena among
life cycles, within increasing layers of complexity but surviving the
self-maintenance ethos of life and its communication retinue. Memes are
different--I think the term is catchy but unproductive (too long to
discuss now). By the way, Howard, to insist: the LP needs a balance,
lets call it Archangel or Angelic Principle. It is when their balance,
the symmetry between them gets broken and none of the restoration
mechanisms may get hold, that the human beast gets free... Our political
and social systems, at least in most democratic countries, are wisely
full of "checks and balances"--not a bad term.
All the best
--Pedro
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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 X
50009 Zaragoza, Spain
Tfno. +34 976 71 3526 (& 6818)
pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es
http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/
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