On Tue, 17 Jun 2008, Pedro Clemente Marijuan Fernandez wrote: > If a new vision, informational one, may be established, it should > emphasize at the very bottom adaptability by means of communication and > self-production activities, usually networking relationships which are > continuously altered under the changes of within and the signals from > the external. Societies (e.g., structures of social bonds), Brains > (neural nets), Cells (protein&gene nets) are the theaters where the > "changes" derived from the new "signals" extracted from happenstances > are realized as "meanings". Disciplinary netwoks would join too, as they > are dramatically altered in their (citations) structures when success of > a new approach following alien "recombination" methods multiplies the > possibilities to extract new meanings materialized in the new > interconnections.
Dear Pedro! I couldn't agree more! It resembles my own approach very much. I think the only other thing we need keep in mind is to be aware that the information in such networks is present not only in the flows. Possibly, the most important information is embodied in the network structure itself. > Does it make sense? Are the sciences themselves "info souls" ---or > better: is it useful and productive to nowadays contemplate them from > the info perspective? I think so, given our contemporary needs. At FIS > we should not renounce to produce the new doctrine or new fashion for > sci. planners and sci. practitioners of tomorrow... Here again, I offer a resounding "Yes!" Recall from one of my earlier postings on this thread, information theory provides a new window on reality that is not provided by conventional physics. Quantifying that which is missing gives one the full ability to address pattern in nature and its genesis. The best, Bob ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robert E. Ulanowicz | Tel: (410) 326-7266 Chesapeake Biological Laboratory | FAX: (410) 326-7378 P.O. Box 38 | Email <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1 Williams Street | Web <http://www.cbl.umces.edu/~ulan> Solomons, MD 20688-0038 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ fis mailing list [email protected] https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis
