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Reality is constant universal change, as energy
continually transforms. All forms emerge from other forms and in turn
merge into other forms. Both
forms and the transformation can be viewed from myriad perspectives
including gravitational, thermal, electromagnetic, kinetic, physical,
chemical and biological perspectives the latter including
psychological perspectives. The latter in particular generates awareness
of how our minds are transformed by the act of reflection of the
universal change.
No two forms are the same and each involves unique
patterns of change or formations. Life at every level uses symbols to
communicate the essence or essential formation of these patterns of
change and that which arises from it. For example the DNA of every cell
contains a sequence of symbols that enable it to survive and procreate.
Human beings use sequences of symbols such as words to enable societies.
This symbol use includes a symbol for the general
phenomenon of each object or pattern of change having its own unique
formation or in-form - the information symbol.
All things and every thing is information and no
matter how it is symbolised, all information is physical. At all levels
there exists a universal interplay of energy with its dancing atoms and
this includes our awareness.
It is common in Anglo-American countries for groups
of individuals to control the flow of information for their own benefit.
For instance they symbolise information as copyright and
create legal frameworks restricting its flow. This is evidence of a
dangerous denial of stewardship/change and such behaviour destroys the
state of science, for inclusiveness is a requisite of this state of
being. Thus it is, for instance, that the United States of America,
where such exclusive behaviour is most prevalent, is also the now the
most indebted nation on the planet, unable to realise its vast potential
and places all humans at major risk.
It is also endemic in these countries for teachers
and other policy makers to dismiss their use of symbols as just
semantics or mere metaphors and to deny the fact that their own
lifestyles are also information and potent symbols. They are denying the
essence of change that information is physical
Summary .
Conserve the potential of the information
symbol by using it to convey the reality that information is physical
and all symbol uses need constant care and review.
Etymology
information
Wiki:
Information, in its most restricted technical sense, is an
ordered sequence of symbols. As a concept however, information has many
meanings. Moreover, the concept of information is closely related to
notions of constraint, communication, control, form, instruction,
knowledge, meaning, mental stimulus, patter, perception and
representation
The English word was apparently derived from the
Latin accusative form (informationem) of the nominative (informatio):
this noun is in its turn derived from the verb "informare" (to
inform) in the sense of "to give form to the mind", "to
discipline", "instruct", "teach": "Men so
wise should go and inform their kings." (1330) Inform itself
comes (via French) from the Latin verb informare, to give form
to, to form an idea of. Furthermore, Latin itself already contained the
word informatio meaning concept or idea, but the extent to which
this may have influenced the development of the word information
in English is not clear.
The ancient Greek word for form was μορφή
(morphe; cf. morph) and also εἶδος
(eidos)
"kind, idea, shape, set", the latter word was famously used in
a technical philosophical sense by Plato (and later Aristotle) to denote
the ideal identity or essence of something (see Theory
of forms). "Eidos" can also be associated with thought,
proposition or even concept or even.
Enjoy
the rewards of being a conservator of the potential of our greatest
symbols.
Page last updated:
Aug 2010
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