# The Central Dogma of Information
## 3 Info-Autopoiesis
The image on the right side of Figure 2 shows how the process of info-autopoiesis as a sensing-information-action process results in a triadic relationship involving endogenous (internal) and exogenous (external) information relevant to the organism-in-its-environment. Endogenous components of information are Personal-Subjective-Relative  
Figure 2: The living-being-in-its-environment and info-autopoiesis. (PSR-I) and Impersonal-Objective-Absolute (IOA-I) information. Exogeneous components of information are Shannon-Distilled (SD-I) or syntactic information [25; 35; 37]. The circle identified as embodying Personal-Subjective-Relative information (PSR-I) identifies information considered in the context of the dictionary definition of these words [34; 35]. A first-person perspective and a qualitative assessment are also implied by PSR-I. PSR-I is intra-subjective arbitrarily generated information whose motivation originates in the satisfaction of physiological (internal and external) and relational needs, where feelings and emotion play an important role. Physiological and relational needs change with time and the context of specific individuals. Our PSR-I remains exclusive to our internal lives, except when we exteriorize our feelings and/or emotions, in the form of artistic and non-artistic gestures, language, poetry, symbols, etc. The intra-subjective, interactive organism-in-its-environment is sure to encounter physical objects and other living beings that cause pain/harm in its efforts to satisfy its physiological and/or relational needs. To avoid those environmental hazards, the organism relies on making predictions to sidestep those environmental occurrences. Those predictions might relate to the PSR-I of the organism-in-its-environment, but they might also manifest its experiences of pain/harm and pleasure/help in its interactions with its environment. Repeated pain/harm leads the organism to take notice to realize that it has access, however small, to the beginnings of Impersonal-Objective-Absolute information (IOA-I), similarly considered in the context of the dictionary definition of these words. Moreover, IOA-I implies a third-person perspective and a quantitative assessment [34; 35]. The interlacing of the PSR-I and IOA-I circles in the right side of Figure 2 shows the interdependence of IOA-I and PSR-I, though PSR-I is primary. The interlaced and overlapping arrows opposing each other, shown outside the information circles, imply the dependent processing and recursive interactions between these information types where it is easy to lose track of which is primary. Both PSR-I and IOA-I are internal or endogenous, accessible to the organism, though inaccessible to outside scrutiny. The constant interactions of PSR-I with IOA-I allow preferences and beliefs to take center stage and gain access to greater objectivity, avoiding solipsism, in contradiction with [PERSON] and [PERSON] [38]. Not all PSR-I leads to IOA-I, but the part of IOA-I that is outside of PSR-I may be regarded as potential IOA-I. For example, the realization that interacting with a sharp object may hurt can be expanded to include all sharp objects as having that ability. The human-organism has an interactive and recursive relationship with its environment promoting the dependence of PSR-I on IOA-I, and vice versa. The intimate relationship between individual PSR-I and IOA-I, both internal to the organism, can only be accessed if an individual is willing to share its contents by external expressions. Such expressions may take the form of language, gestures, pictographs, musical instruments, sculptures, writing, etc. Coding permits the distillation or externalization of PSR-I and IOA-I transforming them into Shannon-Distilled information (SD-I) or externalized (exogenous) syntactic information. This is precisely the process that occurs in composing a message as shown in Figure 1, where SD-I is the basis for this syntactic artificial world which we inhabit.