Here I indicate my understanding of Pedro's statements on information
STAN
10 PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION SCIENCE
1. Information is information, neither matter nor energy.
S: I have information as a perceptible result of interaction,
which may be embodied in matter and/or energy
Information is comprehended into structures, patterns, messages, or flows.
S: Agreed
3. Information can be recognized, can be measured, and can be processed
(either computationally or non-computationally).
S: If an interaction has an effect, that effect can be converted
to other embodiments, resulting in informing
4. Information flows are essential organizers of life's self-production
processes--anticipating, shaping, and mixing up with the accompanying
energy flows.
S: Life, as an information-guided local process-embodiment,
transforms other forms by extracting usable energy and materials from them.
5. Communication/information exchanges among adaptive life-cycles underlie
the complexity of biological organizations at all scales.
S: Information, as such, has no scale restriction. However,
informed processes in living systems proceed independently at many scales.
6. It is symbolic language what conveys the essential communication
exchanges of the human species--and constitutes the core of its "social
nature."
S: Informing has been constructed as a basic tool among humans.
7. Human information may be systematically converted into efficient
knowledge, by following the "knowledge instinct" and further up by
applying rigorous methodologies.
S: Among humans information is used to construct and effect
technologies.
8. Human cognitive limitations on knowledge accumulation are partially
overcome via the social organization of "knowledge ecologies."
S: Humans have methods for sharing information.
9. Knowledge circulates and recombines socially, in a continuous
actualization that involves "creative destruction" of fields and
disciplines: the intellectual Ars Magna.
S: Methods of sharing information among humans have become
developed as discourses
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.
S: Information Science proposes to embody a special
understanding of informational transactions as an acknowledged discourse.
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