Pedro wrote:
Unfortunately, the neglect of the life cycle is almost universal. Neither neuroscientists nor psychologists nor social scientists are sufficiently aware of this invisible "water" that permeates all living stuff. Echoing some old evolutionary statement, everything should made sense in relation with the advancement of the corresponding life cycle. Just the superficial observation of human exchanges in our societies, or in whatever historical epoch, the conversational small-talk topics, the way people greet each other, the gossip media... the condensates of the individuals' info cycles are everywhere. A new conceptualization of information as accompanying the development of human action for the sake of life cycles and subtending the cooperation structures of economic life could have wide multidisciplinary interest--I think. (Unfortunately, these adventures are discouraged: Mark is terribly right about the sorrow state of our collective brain reservoirs--poor universities! kingdoms of conventionalism and tunnel vision). Stan: One aspect of the life cycle is the rate of energy flow through a system, which is well known in living systems, and appears to be similar in all dissipative structures. This is shown in this figure: [image: Inline image 1] Then we need to consider which life cycle we are going to investigate. One conversation? The duration of conference?, etc. STAN
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