Re: [Fis] THE SOCIOTYPE: SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND BEYOND

2013-10-01 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Dear Raquel, I agree with the distinction genotype-phenotype-sociotype, but the metaphor of a global brain is in my opinion not so fortunate. Different from an individuum, the social can be considered as a dividuum or, in other words, a distribution of agents that contains uncertainty. The

Re: [Fis] THE SOCIOTYPE: SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND BEYOND

2013-10-01 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear Raquel and FIS colleagues, Thanks a lot for the opening text. My impression is that this topic is situated in a no-man's-land and although it can be connected from a variety of points of view all of them become too incomplete and unsatisfying. Our sociality is like water for the fish...