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. These expectations can be exchanged (for example,
in language), and also be codified at the interpersonal level (for
example, in legislation or in scholarly discourse).
Important. I wonder if two birds singing before copulation have an
expectation with double contingency ?
How does this relate to information? In my opinion, the dynamics of
meaning are driving cultural evolution.
How Evolution plays a role in this relation at the scale of millions of
years ?
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. 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 Godron
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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Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR)
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