Pedro wrote: I see but five different and interrelated "momenta" that should be aligned for the hypothetical advancement of the common info field. The first one corresponds to philosophy, as the critical playground where dissatisfaction with the existing views should conduce to attempting more congenial new ways of thinking. Unsolved problems of the sciences, when they are general and affect several disciplines, easily generate philosophical debate--which can be helpful to suggest new inroads. Saying clearly "nope" to some philosophical and para-philosophical schools is quite valuable although it easily generates irritation and obfuscation in the concerned parties (that ingredient of "piquancy" also enlivens the debates).The second momentum would correspond to the biomolecular (primordials of life and cellular organization). The third momentum would wrap around the organismic and the neuronal (the evolutionary outcomes of multicellular life up to advanced nervous systems). I think they are so obvious that do not deserve further comment.The fourth momentum involves the roots of human sociality, up to the historical development of social complexity. And the fifth momentum belongs to the contemporary revolution around communication, information, etc.
Pedro -- What you have here is a rough subsumptive hierarchy. That is, each concept to the immediate left of another concept here subsumes that concept. So, e.g., sociality subsumes information, while information constrains sociality. {philosophy {biomolecular {organismic & neuronal {sociality {information}}}}} STAN
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