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                Subject: Lingu: re: parameters                 Date:   10/30/96

'Information - the dynamic components'

Yehouda Harpaz re-asked on 10/30/96:

>In case you forgot, here are the original questions:
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>[1]What are the rules that all languages which are used for communication by systems that are intelligent as humans has to obey?
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>[2] What are the rules that all languages which are used for communication by systems that are intelligent as humans, and have the known physiological and perceptual characteristics as hymans, has to obey?


The term "rules" obviously implies the presence of some sort of organization and consistent relational structure. And, since "language" is a mode of information transfer, your question reduces to: "What are the processes available (and pervasively present) whereby information generated by one system may be encountered and used by another system in some utilitarian way?"

The first and most absolute foundational consideration rests in the invariable capacity of the embracing environment *to* convey information intact. The first a priori is that the universe is constructed in such a way that information is transmittable ... information can be transduced, translated, altered, reformed and in any ways reconfigured, and yet original emitted "information" can always be retrieved (to whatever degree that the receiving system is capable).

                    There are 6 primary parts for general recursive networks:

    1. originating source system
    2. path or channel to receiver
    3. content (information/energy)
    4. receiving system
    5. path or channel to originating system (distinction may be spatial or temporal or both)
    6. content ; feedback (not always present)

"Information" is definable as "data in context to the systems it exists in".

Some path must always be present (even in an "implicate order" scenario) whereby energy/information gets from one spacetime locale to another. Otherwise there is no Heisenberg Intersection of information conveyance (and you end up with all the philosophies of Russell & Whitehead, and of Godel, and Chaitin). Plato described the 6 parts, but ignored the channels (#'s 2,5), and the result was his dualist universe of Ideal and Real (source & result).

Human sentience transcribes and uses information concerning "spacetime" (the *p* and *d* ...location,momentum of physics) and applies it to current events and to future ones. Weighted evaluations are a constant and ongoing dynamic because the information streams never end .. we are built to be sensitive to incoming information as long as the channels for communication are open.

The only rules we "have to" obey are the ones that enable participating in the emission, transmission, reception and processing of information. As long as we have the reticulated neural rete by which the information is maintained and handled internally recursive, we "experience" as we are in the process on "enacting" the mechanics of structure. The flood of integrated data,
recursively processed *is* an event of (*are* events of) sentience. And, data alone is not information. Comparative juxtaposition accomplishes that.

This may not be what you had in mind when posing the question Yehouda but you seemed to want a general overview as much as human-specific considerations.

INTEGRITY PARADIGM

Refs:
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     Initial Formulations for a Unified Field Theory.
. (1992, 1995) Understanding the Integral Universe.