Knowledge and knowhow repeated again, Page 165-166:
Until now we have been building a description of the economy based on knowhow, knowledge, their practical uses, and the vehicles used to accumulate and disseminate both knowledge and knowhow and their practical uses. This is a description of the economy centered on the packing and unpacking of knowhow and information, on how our ability to pack the practical uses of knowledge and knowhow and information into productsaugments our capacities, and how the quantization of knowhow implied by the limited knowhow implied by the limited knowhow carrying capacities of firms and people limits its diffusion.
We have noted that the information and knowhow are clearly distinct concepts. Information refers to the order embodied in codified sequences such as those found in music or DNA, while knowledge and knowhow refer to the ability of a system to process information. Examples of knowhow are found in the biological networks that perform photosynthesis, the process by which plants harvest carbon f5rom the air—or more fancifully, the human networks that perform "autosynthesis", the process by which groups of humans manufacture cars out of minerals.
Information and knowhow
Information and knowhow are in fact of different categories:
information is a static type that can be stored, while knowhow like knowledge is a dynamic category that only can be used.
The difference is similar to the one between energy (can be stored) and power (use of energy), which few people seem to understand?
Knowhow and information are distinct, but they are also intimately connected. The ability of a system to pack knowhow depends largely on the fluidity with which it can use information to reconstruct the dynamic networks it need to accumulate that knowhow. A seed is a perfect exampleof this. It is a package containing both the knowhow and the information needed to create a plant, such as a tree. The development of a tree is nothing other but the majestic unpacking of the knowhow facilitated by genetic information. A seed unpacking into a tree unpacks the knowhow needed to perform photosynthesis, to build the structures that will transport nutrients and water from the ground to the leaves, and to defend it against pests. A seed unpacking into a tree is an example of knowhow and information being unpacked into a structure that is more complex than the one that is begot—the tree has the ability bto perform functions that were absent in the seed.
But how does this unpacking of knowhow and information take place? Is it the result of information that is packed in DNA, or is it the result of a more intricate dance involving both the knowhow embodied in the primordial cell and the information coded in DNA?
The tree
A tree is actually a symbiosis between two distinct species: the tree and the chrophyll: the tree brings the chlorophyll up in the sunlight where it can transform energy from the sun into energy for the tree. The tree provides the chrorophyll with water and nutrients.
The chrophyll is not present in the seed because it is another species
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