[Fis] A curious tale and QBism

[Hans von Baeyer]

Thank you Pedro for mentioning my new book.

Actually, there is a connection between my book and the curious tale.
QBists look at the future as a web of interlaced personal, numerical
probability estimates, with no certainties anchored in REAL mechanisms.
The probability that CERN will blow up the world is small enough to be
negligible for most people, but not for all.  The thing QBists reject as *in
principle *unattainable is ABSOLUTE certainty, which many lay people and
some physicists (Einstein was among them) continue to long for.

Hans Christian von Baeyer
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[Fis] Further Perspectives

[Pedro C. Marijuan]

Dear FISers,

After the Lecture, Many Thanks to Otto, for bringing us that Curious 
Story... let us hope that an outcome will be found, as Jerry stated: "I 
see this “curious” behavior as a political problem that can be addressed 
by seeking a political solution that respects scientific traditions and 
hence, to motivate senior CERN officials to act honorably in the best 
interests of all."


In next weeks some further discussion might be started, but at the time 
being, the slot is empty (any ideas?). In the meantime I include 
information about _two conferences_ organized by FIS parties, one by 
Krassimir Markov and the other by Marcin Schroeder, and also about_two 
books_ from FIS colleagues as well, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone and Hans von 
Baeyer.


*_From Krassimir:_*

I kindly invite everybody to take part in the ITHEA ITA conferences in 
Varna, Bulgaria, where there exists the General Information Theory (GTI) 
International Conference.
Please see the Call For Papers at the ITHEA web site: 
http://www.ithea.org/conferences/conferences.html
In addition, during ITA 2017 International Summer School on Informatics 
(ISSI), also in Varna, a Workshop on the General Information Theory is 
planned as well. Two specific FIS meetings already took place in this 
Summer School.

Friendly greetings to all.

*_From Marcin:_*

This Symposium has as its main goal an exchange of views and opinions, 
sharing knowledge and discussion of the methods to integrate curriculum 
helping to educate new generations in the manner propagating a holistic 
world view. Mathematics and increased level of abstraction are natural 
sources of the methods of unification of knowledge and of curriculum. 
The concept of symmetry provides an example of the program of 
unification of the methods of inquiry across virtually all disciplines 
of human intellectual activity. Whether successful or not, it can serve 
as a starting point for the discussion of the curricular reforms. We 
invite contributions to the discussion in the form of oral presentations 
of relevant papers.
Integrative Methods of Inquiry in Education. Symposium at Akita 
International University
Akita Japan, March 29-30, 2017 https://amsig.github.io/IMIE2017/ __ 
 

(Deadline for abstract submission March 1, 2017)

*Book from Maxine: *Insides and Outsides: Interdisciplinary Perspectives 
on Animate Nature. Imprinting Academic, 2016.
*Book from Hans: *QBism: The Future of Quantum Physics Hardcover. 
Harvard University Press, 2017.


Best wishes to all--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 0
50009 Zaragoza, Spain
Tfno. +34 976 71 3526 (& 6818)
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http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/
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