Bien reçu votre message. MERCI. Cordialement. M. Godron
Le 17/07/2016 à 20:21, Loet Leydesdorff a écrit :
Dear Michel and colleagues,
I agree that adaptation is not specifically human and that "humanity's
main adaptive role" is not to be defined as "information".
I agree also !
The best candidate for a spefically human is probably, in my opinion,
"double contingency": Ego expects Alter to entertain expectations as
s/he does herself.
Very interesting. I agree, but two birds who sing to find a candidate to
copulation has also expectations.
expectations can be exchanged (for example, in language), and also be
codified at the interpersonal level (for example, in legislation or in
scholarly discourse).
How does this relate to information? In my opinion, the dynamics of
meaning are driving cultural evolution.
I agree also !
Information is needed at the bottom providing the variation. The codes
of communication -- for example, in discourse among biologists
(Pedro!) -- operate as next-order selection mechanisms.
What is exactly the role of selection in this process ?
These selection mechanisms are not "objective" or observable, but can
be expected to operate and be hypotesized; for example, in a sociology
of communication. We have access to these discourses infra-reflexively.
M G
On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 4:42 PM, Michel Godron <migod...@wanadoo.fr
<mailto:migod...@wanadoo.fr>> wrote:
You wrote :
"First, humanity’s MAIN ADAPTIVE ROLE is “information,” if someone
questions that fact _I invite you to post your view _and I will
happily “reply.
My reply is (in red) :
O K but I am not sure that the profound reason why it is true is
clear for every one : this constatation "humanity’s MAIN ADAPTIVE
ROLE is information,” (or "information is the main way to adapt")
is true also for _any living being_, because the basic functioning
of Life is a tranmission of information. That information is
necessary for any living being to adapt to its environment in a
cybernetic system (which was not well understood by von
Bertalanffy cf. Fritjof Capra p. 48).
I could explain this with more details, if you want, for each of
the six main scales (molecules in a cell, genetics with DNA,
epigenetics, vegetal and animal communities, landscapes, humanity).
M. Godron
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