Dear FIS colleagues,
Some aspects of the current financial crisis might be related to
discussions we had in this list on information and the nature of
economic flows years ago ("economic networks", and also, central aspects
of ecological "ascendancy").
The amazing growth of financial assets of many kinds during last decade
may have conduced finally to a brutal crisis like the current one, not
just for "greed" or political lack of control, but also for dearth of
scientific understanding. I would argue that:
1. Financial flows are "anticipatory" information flows that preclude
the structural changes and the evolution to follow by real economic
structures.
2. Without financial anticipation, economic changes could not keep pace
with technology & science progress due to the "viscosity" of social and
legal webs of relationships.
3. The creation of successive informational (financial) layers becomes
an exercise in complexity accumulation, that almost inexorably leads to
cross instability thresholds and a general loss resilience.
4. Though the financial info is a sort of virtual builder, a potential
energy of sorts, it has to suffer "closure" upon the real economy; then
its excessive flows in out from some sector (eg, housing in some
strategic countries), amplified in the global complexity, have now
potential to destabilize the whole financial layers and bring the real
economy to havoc.
5. Economy is an informational systems, in crucial aspects, not well
explained yet... advancing an "info economics" would be quite timely.
Would it be interesting to argue on some of these very roughly penned
aspects (while our pockets get emptier and emptier)?
best
Pedro
PS. The recent track on foundations of art is still worth of some
further comment...
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Pedro C. Marijuán
Grupo de Bioinformación
Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud
Avda. Gómez Laguna, 25, Pl. 11ª
50.009 Zaragoza. España
Telf.: 34 976 71 3526 Fax: 34 976 71 5554
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