Dear FIS colleages,
Some new people from the Xian conference have joined our list --welcome
to all of them. Before coming back to the ongoing discussion, let me
briefly refer to ongoing changes in FIS organization. The _scientific
committee_ will be enlarged to incorporate new trends, a _steering
committee_ will be established to provide stable management, the
_Secretariat_ will be finally in working order, and the _fis web pages_
reformed. The compromise is to implement these changes during coming
months. Information Science is definitely entering a new time, and at
FIS we need a little bit more of organization if we want to keep playing
our role of scientific mentorship, also including matters of research,
publishing, conferences, summer school, etc. Another related news, quite
recent one, refers to the creation of the _Chinese Chapter of ISIS_
organization (& FIS). It will be integrated by the parties in Beijing,
Wuhan, Xi'an, and other regions. At the time being it will be
coordinated by Xueshan Yan and Liu Chang. It will be more amply
disclosed during coming weeks.
About the ongoing discussion, why an essentially empirical work is
reinterpreted exclusively towards the most theoretical-abstract? It is
not quite useful. There are very cool aspects of Raquel's work that
would benefit of comments more "having the feet on the ground". Then,
from those further applied aspects we could connect with the
abstract-theoretical, but with more fertility than now. I am thinking
particularly on Jared Diamond's work on the environmental and cultural
conditions for the development of social complexity. Do these conditions
dovetail with some of the mental/numerical thresholds of the type argued
by Raquel and Jorge (and myself)? I think so.
best wishes
--Pedro
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Pedro C. Marijuán
Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group
Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud
Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Aragón (CIBA)
Avda. San Juan Bosco, 13, planta X
50009 Zaragoza, Spain
Tfno. +34 976 71 3526 (& 6818)
[email protected]
http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/
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