Dear FIS Colleagues, With due respect to Pedro, my first reaction to Stan's proposed question is a positive "very useful". I believe that there are deep issues of randomness or spontaneity, determinism and computability that will emerge from its discussion. Another aspect is whether any order we may discern can be, as I suggest, logical in an expanded sense of logic. I would look forward to a discussion of this topic.
Best wishes, Joe Brenner ----- Original Message ----- From: Pedro Clemente Marijuan Fernandez To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 5:56 PM Subject: [Fis] list discussions Dear FIS colleagues, It is a long time that we do not have discussions in the list. I have not been able to arrange any other "planned session" after Bob Logan's one, due to work reasons (changing to a new job months ago). It is not sure at all that in a few weeks there will be a new session arranged. However, several weeks ago, Stan suggested starting an open, informal discussion around a simple question: Is Nature Orderly? As a side comment (or response of sorts), I quote from P.M. Binder: "The field of complex systems currently appears as an unfinished mosaic. Many capable researchers are polishing and gluing the tiles that may turn it into the queen of all sciences, the science of synthesis and surprise. As we realize how much everything is connected, both cooperation [or emergence] and dynamical frustration can become important tools for our understanding of how the world works." (2008, Nature, 320, pp. 320-21)... just substituting information science for complex systems, and another couple of terms (more subtle ones I do not see yet) for cooperation and dynamical frustration, it becomes my first reaction to Stan's. By the way, small organization initiatives are in the way, e.g., financing for a FIS European meeting has been applied by Wolfgang and others (around November there will be confirmation). More will follow. best wishes Pedro PS. Interested parties may take note of my new address: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Pedro C. Marijuán Bioinformation Group Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud Avda. Gómez Laguna, 25, Pl. 11ª 50009 Zaragoza. Spain Phone: 34 976 71 6584 - Fax: 34 976 71 5554 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ fis mailing list [email protected] http://webmail.unizar.es/mailman/listinfo/fis
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