Dear Bob, Pedro and colleagues:
This is my first message in FIS list.
My name is Walter Riofrio, Associate Professor of Peruvian University
Cayetano Heredia in Lima-Peru. My research interests are:
(1) Theoretical and Conceptual Analysis in Biology and Natural Sciences;
(2) Nature of Biological Evolution; (3) Emergence of basic properties in
Living Systems; (4) Relationships between Biological Functions, Biological
Information and Network of Molecular Processes; (5) Theoretical Studies in
Architecture of the Brain and its relations with the Emergence of Cognition
in Evolution; (6) The Neural and Temporal Code linked to the Emergence of
Mental Properties.
I would like to participate in the discussion of proposals on biotic
interpretation of information in POE.
I agree with Pedro about the statement The origins of life
must be
explained
by means of the highest power or upper hand in science: the
experimental.
But I would add the following thing: We still need the conceptual
development (that it is not so easy task) and the respective translations
in the design of interesting, elegant and outstanding experiments with
which not only continue the accumulation of more or less dispersed data but
concrete security we are obtaining explanations on this topic.
Actually, I have a lot of questions because of my researches are related
with some issues in the paper (although, I only put some of them here):
(1) To understand adequately one of the main claims, mainly, equaling
information (biotic or instructional information) with constraints I
wondering if the notion propagation organization adds something more to
the notion of reproduction
(2) In the same way: how can arise the meaning In naturalist terms or
imposed by us? If is the former, how the living beings process the meaning
of some information in themselves?
One can therefore argue that since the meaning of
instructional information is propagating organization that we finally
understand the meaning of life the meaning of life is propagating
organization.
(3) My last question, it is due that I have works in this issue: the nature
of biological information. And my main working thesis is that I claim that
it is still possible to construct in Naturalized Normative ways notions
like Information, Function and Autonomy. Moreover, that these three
properties are the most basic properties of life.
Briefly stated, I consider the autonomy a property (global property) which
is the result of the first emergence of information and function (in the
local interactions between the processes in an interrelated molecular
network).
My working hypothesis is about the origins of prebiotic phenomena and I
postulate that the system which opened these doors were the Informational
Dynamic Systems (IDS).
This is the one that caused the necessary and sufficient conditions to set
off the succession of certain phenomena of the universe towards the
possibility of the emergence of biological systems. It is also the system
that might have been the driving force to the beginning of the move from
the inanimate world to the animate one.
My theoretical proposal visualizes the emergence of information and
biological function in a sort of coordinated origin at the same time in
the local processes of these types of systems.
This visualization of the physical emergence of Information and Function
gives us to talk about the notion of Information-Function; each time we
observe functions happening in these systems processes, we can be sure
that some type of information has been transmitted through them. Likewise,
when we observe the transmission of some type of information among the
process, we can be sure that some function has been produced among them.
It means that the kind of organization in these systems (and, of course, in
the living beings) is an Informational and Functional Dynamic Organization.
If someone would like to read more of my proposals, there are three links:
- One chapter in a book:
(A) Riofrio, Walter (2007a) Informational Dynamic Systems: Autonomy,
Information, Function. In Worldviews, Science, and Us: Philosophy and
Complexity, edited by C. Gershenson, D. Aerts, and B. Edmonds. World
Scientific, Singapore, pp. 232-249.
Link of a pre-published
version:
<http://wriofrio.aboutus.gs/Papers/PyC-WR.pdf>http://wriofrio.aboutus.gs/Papers/PyC-WR.pdf
- Two works which develops some consequences of my main claims (in
the aforementioned paper) applied to the relationships between the
cytoarchitectute of the brain and the emergence of cognition in evolution:
(B) Riofrio, W. and Aguilar, L.A. (2006) Different Neurons Population
Distribution correlates with Topologic-Temporal Dynamic Acoustic
Information Flow. InterJournal Complex Systems # [1619].
<http://wriofrio.aboutus.gs/Papers/AcInFl-WR.pdf>http://wriofrio.aboutus.gs/Papers/AcInFl-WR.pdf
(C) Riofrio, W. (2007b) Roots and Emergence of Cognition in Evolution.
Available from Nature Precedings
<<http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2007.413.2>http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/npre.2007.413.2>.
(4) My last question is what kind of Biological Functions notion you are
managing?
Sincerely,
Walter
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Walter Riofrio
Neuroscience and Behavior Division,
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia
Lima-PERU.
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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