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Relations between The Four Domains of Information



Overall view:  The Four Domains of Information



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Overall view:

 The Four Domains of Information


 
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Field of knowledge


Domain


(process level)
Psychological processes
Abstract patterns
Physical processes
Social interactions

Typical activity


Performance, motivation, experience, quality, consciousness
Reasoning, inference, judgment, truthfinding
Operation, influencing, directing
Sending and receiving of information

Verbal and nonverbal encoding and decoding

Problem


What determines well-being, responding, decision-making of people?
How do you know what is true, probable, or plausible?
What is causing a phenomenon - and what are its consequences?
What does language 'tell'? What does communication 'do'?

Topic


Model of functioning/system
Laws of truth,
valid schemes of inference
Laws of cause-effect,
causal hypothesis/model
Principles of contact, communication and language use

Mode of information


Information in behavior and experience
Information in combinations and implications
Information in processes of cause-effect
Information in sign and meaning

Substance


Quality: meanings, sense-data, emotions, esthetics, .. qualia
Quantity: combinations, derivation relations
Operation: dynamics; causal mechanisms
Physicalmanifestation: expressions

Type of structure


Semantic network

Content and consistency of experience : model, determines associative thinking.
'We anticipate events by construing their replications' (Kelly, G.A., 1955; Construct Theory, Construction Collorary').
'The map is not the territory' (A. Korzybski).
Logical structure

Planning Patterns: Abstract structure, represents logical combinations and implications: preconditionsfor truth value.
'To discover truths is the task of all sciences, it falls to logic to discern the laws of truth' (G. Frege) .
Causal relations

Using information to achieve desired results.
Syntax

'Rules' and 'vocabulary' - from language, culture, events or improvisation - for expressing information.
Preconditionsfor communication.
'The choice of the signifier.. has no natural connection with the signified' (F. de Saussure, 1916; 1922: p.200) .
'The connection of linguistic forms with their meanings is wholly arbitrary' (L. Bloomfield, 1933, p.145) .

Unique features


Capacity for consciousness-
Unique features:
(·) Is a necessary condition for all experience and information that we can know of.
(·) Includes quality of experience, intrinsic value, sensory experience, emotion, qualiaetc..
Examples:
• Conscious awareness.
• Conscious noting something (on grounds of difference).
• Degree of global intensityof consciousness.
• Subjective sensations (sentiency).
• Quality aspects of experiences (qualia).
• Clarity, sharpness and detail of experience (lucidity).
• Dynamics of experience (vividness).
• Degree of specific intensity of experience (impressiveness).
• Sense encountered (pregnancy).
• Meaning perceived (intensionality).
• Overall experience of quality (e.g. experienced degree of happiness, contentment, gratification, fulfillment, satisfaction).
(see a.o. Miller, Kaplan, Searle, Nagel, Chalmers, Lanier, etc.).
Abstract organization-
Unique features:
(·) Is open to discrete difference, basis of information.
(·) Is quantifiable. Quantityincludes e.g., size, number , sign, syntax, structure, complexity, etc..
(·) Is systematically 'creative'. Combinatoricsgives rise to differentiation, by which other aspects and variations appear.
(·) Is, by combinatory explosion, infinitely expandable (up to unlimited cardinality). However, any valid expansion or transformation will always be immediately and inherently reversible, i.e. reducible again to its starting parameters.
(·) Embodies extrinsic organization. Implies Multiple Realizibility. Offers raw material for Virtual Reality .
(·) Is subject to logical laws, which are described in formal logic and meta-logic.
(eg Frege, Hilbert, Cantor, Russell, Zermelo, Herbrand, Tarski, Gödel, Church, Kleene, Turing, Lindenbaum, Henkin, Skolem, Löwenheim, Robinson, etc.).
Physical structure-
Unique features:
(·) Is apparently inherent to physical phenomena such as matter, energie, space and time.
(·) Implies intrinsic organization.
(·) Comprises cause-effect relations (causality).
(see Kant, Peirce, Wehl, Popper, Lakatos and others).
Intersubjective experience-
Unique features:
(·) Communication consists of 'the offering and accepting of meaning' (V.Satir, 1976).
(·) Communication enables mutual understanding. The value of shared experience comprises more than 'the sum of its parts'.
(see Korzybski, Leech, Heider, Keller & Brown, Satir, etc.).

Inherent features


Discernable of other domains.
(·) Appears to be dependent of neuro-physicalfunctions.
(·) Can not immediadetely, as such, be observed in physicaldomain.
(·) Is accessible for, but essentiallynot reducible to, abstract ordering. Quality can not be substituted or created by quantity. Is in effect not 'computable' through algorithms. Thus consciousness can never be imitated, modeled, programmed or generated arithmetically (for example, by algorithms as is proposed in Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Dataism). This constitutes the 'non-computabality' of consciousness.
Discernable of other domains.
(·) Is immediately perceivable within consciousness, although only through mental construction.
(·) Can not completely, 100% exactly be 'contained' in consciousperception.
(Can be understood, but is not fully imaginable. Think for example of a 'thousand-sided polygon').
(·) Does not have a 'process nature' or other physicalfeatures. (·) Is not dependent of physical aspects such as matter, energie, space or time; therefore neither substance, medium or carrier.
(·) Can not immediadetely, as such, be located in physicaldomain.
(·) Kan niet volledig, 100 % exact worden weergegeven in fysischdomein.
(Can be understood, but can not be fully represented.. Think for example of a 'perfect circle').
(·) May show an approximate symmetry with , but is notreally reducible to, physical structure.
Discernable of other domains.
(·) Appears to be inherently relative.
(·) Is not recognizable 'as such' (an Sich) to us.
(·) Has no - traceable - intrinsic 'meaning'. Has only assignedmeaning, through interpretation.
(·) Physical formmay nevertheless, within some sharedcontext(frameof reference), serve as a vehicle for signaling and communication.
Discernable of other domains.
(·) Communication makes use of reference by means of form , transmissionand meaning.
it thus involves interaction between the domains of information(abstract order), physical processesand subjective perception .