Dear Gordana and colleagues,
Your quotation "But I would rather risk such reproaches than accept the
present situation, in which philosophers argue only with dead biologists
and biologists only with dead philosophers... " is quite funny and
descriptive. In my terms, the recombination of knowledge is a slow,
generationally driven process, except maybe in "revolutionary" periods
like today. Thus, in spite of Peirce scholarly greatness, and his
crucial involvement in the creation of "pragmatism", it does not follow
that this general philosophy or his semiotician stance, elaborated
almost three generations ago, make a good match with the current
developments in "connectomics" and in the "motor-centered approach"
attempted by contemporary neuroscientists. My hunch is that a new
information philosophy is needed in order to coherently link not only
with the neurosciences but also with biology and Q Info science and
advanced Artificial Intelligence. The unfortunately missing
neurosceintific aspect is really crucial for our common enterprise, and
it is a discussion we must promote in the list...
There is a very interesting attempt in the theoretical-biological arena
that may be taken as a model for the neuroscience missing link. It is
the INBIOSA project (www.inbiosa.eu <http://www.inbiosa.eu>), that
promotes a new integration paradigm about theoretical biology,
biomathematics, and biocomputing. It is a preliminary European project
funded by the EU, and some FISers know it very well as they (we) are
already cooperating in this initiative. Somehow, what inbiosa attempts
is the "what is life" of our times... It has been promoted by Plamen
Simeonov, Andrée Ehresmann, Leslie Smith, Bruno Marchal, and others.
They have recently joined our own discussion list (let me welcome them
publicly!). In the extent to which a general multidisciplinary
discussion may be convenient for them at some developmental stage, they
are invited to chair some FIS future discussion session.
By the way, given that we have almost discontinued with James'
presentation on medieval science, maybe it is time that he writes down a
discussion "colophon"... We have had a nice time with his historical
panorama (particularly in the scholarly "disputatione" so enlivened by
Jerry's musings). Thanks, James!
best wishes
---Pedro
Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic escribió:
Dear Joseph,
Thank you for this precise clarification. I agree completely and I
also follow tensions and changes in our discussions in the list.
Especially interesting to me is how theories or frameworks
communicate, use each other and internalize each other.
(I believe that is essentially the same process as the one you mention
for the change of Logic in Reality itself).
Currently there are ongoing paradigm shifts in computing, logic,
biology, cognitive science, information science and several others.
Not all research fields get "updated" instantly, it takes time.
Interdisciplinary discussions sometimes contain criticisms built on
presupposition about other research fields as they looked like some
time before.
(I meet often the idea that computing is the same as the Turing
Machine model. But there is strong development of new computational
paradigms and even if they are not completely established, they
already exist in some fragmentary form.)
"But I would rather risk such reproaches than accept the present
situation,
in which philosophers argue only with dead biologists and biologists
only with dead philosophers... "
Michael Morange, Life Explained
So I think this list is a good example of living philosophers talking
with living biologists and other living FISers which makes it much
more exciting and difficult.
Best regards,
Gordana
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Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group
Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud
Avda. Gómez Laguna, 25, Pl. 11ª
50009 Zaragoza, Spain
Telf: 34 976 71 3526 (& 6818) Fax: 34 976 71 5554
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