Re: [Fis] Cultural Legacy Redux (Freewheeling Speculation)

2016-07-18 Thread Michel Godron
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 candid

Re: [Fis] Cultural Legacy Redux (Freewheeling Speculation)

2016-07-18 Thread Michel Godron
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 candi

Re: [Fis] Cultural Legacy Redux (Freewheeling Speculation)

2016-07-17 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
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". The best candidate for a spefically human is probably, in my opinion, "double contingency": Ego expects Alter to entertain expectations as s

Re: [Fis] Cultural Legacy Redux (Freewheeling Speculation)

2016-07-16 Thread Michel Godron
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 "hum

[Fis] Cultural Legacy Redux (Freewheeling Speculation)

2016-07-12 Thread Marcus Abundis
Greetings to all, This A Priori Modeling session began Thursday, 16 June, and today marks four weeks. As “session leader” some meta-comments seem needed. In gauging our progress, a sense akin to that in Terry Deacon’s 30 Jan 2015 post comes to mind: > . . . I haven't felt that the specific com