Flows

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Jesus, I am certainly pleased it is Friday.

A channel is the physical structure or circumstances that allow two separate events to be connected.  This is one of the realities of information.

Per Riccardo Manzotti, "Information here is simply the capacity of any channel to effect a causal coupling between two events."

So, in a holobiont, what constitutes the information?  What constitutes the flow?  What are the channels used to convey the information?

Right now, if you try to work with Riccardo's Spread Mind idea, you get an inkling of a link between things.  The link has memory and causal echoes.  When you try to work with Ugo's holobiont idea you start wondering if that the linkages may be intra rather than inter.

Lots of thinking to do here.