Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture

2018-01-11 Thread Francesco Rizzo
.net/model-of-evolution/ >[2] Ji, S. (2012). The Isomorphism between Cell and Human Languages: The > Cell Language Theory <http://www.conformon.net/?attachment_id=1098>. In: > *Molecular > Theory of the Living Cell: Concepts, Molecular Mechanisms, and Biomedical > Appli

Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture

2018-01-11 Thread Sungchul Ji
hers, New Jersey. ________________ From: Fis on behalf of PEDRO CLEMENTE MARIJUAN FERNANDEZ Sent: Friday, January 5, 2018 8:39 AM To: JOHN TORDAY; fis@listas.unizar.es Subject: Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture head> Dear John and FIS Colleagues, Many thanks for this opening text of the NY Le

Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture

2018-01-10 Thread Ulanowicz, Robert
Just a few short comments in response to Mark & John: We definitely must reconsider the logic of biology! To start with, we must abandon the Aristotelian prohibition of circular causality, as Alicia Juarrero suggests. Life is all about recursion! Then there's the inherent dialectical nature of liv

Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture

2018-01-10 Thread Bill
ntil June 20th 2018 *From:*Fis [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] *On Behalf Of *PEDRO CLEMENTE MARIJUAN FERNANDEZ *Sent:* 5. januar 2018 14:40 *To:* JOHN TORDAY ; fis@listas.unizar.es *Subject:* Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture head> Dear John and FIS Colleagues, Many thanks for this opening

Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture

2018-01-10 Thread Mark Johnson
Dear John, Thank you very much for this - a great way to start the new year! I'd like to ask about "communication" - it's a word which is understood in many different ways, and in the context of cells, is hard to imagine. When you suggest that “the unicellular state delegates its progeny to inte

Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture

2018-01-09 Thread Karl Javorszky
Dear Professor Torday, thank you for your insightful analysis of the complex system which is genetics. Your viewpoints cover from the molecular, cellular, physiological level up to that of cosmic changes affecting the whole of the Earth. Your work is truly a tour d’horizon of the subject. Rando

Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture

2018-01-09 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
* * free promotional access to all focused issue articles until June 20th 2018 *From:*Fis [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] *On Behalf Of *PEDRO CLEMENTE MARIJUAN FERNANDEZ *Sent:* 5. januar 2018 14:40 *To:* JOHN TORDAY ; fis@listas.unizar.es *Subject:* Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture head&g

Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture

2018-01-05 Thread Stanley N Salthe
Torday's work generally boils down to a concern for PREADAPTATION in organic evolution. This is a material necessity. Preadaptation has been ignored by the neoDarwinian evolutionary biologists, who have viewed their task to concern the dynamics of natural selection (even in simple models). So evo

Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture

2018-01-05 Thread PEDRO CLEMENTE MARIJUAN FERNANDEZ
Dear John and FIS Colleagues, Many thanks for this opening text of the NY Lecture. Indeed you have presented us an intricate panorama on one of the most obscure scientific problems of our time: the central theory of biology. As you say, we find with astonishment that there is literally no cell

[Fis] New Year Lecture

2018-01-02 Thread PEDRO CLEMENTE MARIJUAN FERNANDEZ
Dear FIS Colleagues, Happy New Year to everybody! Following ourtradition we are going to hold the New Year Lecture: "REFLECTIONS ON EVOLUTION THEORY" It will be imparted by: JOHN S. TORDAY Professor of Evolutionary Medicine Harbor-UCLAMedical Center Los Angeles It will be posted, at hi

[Fis] New Year Lecture

2016-12-31 Thread PEDRO CLEMENTE MARIJUAN FERNANDEZ
Dear FIS Colleagues, The 2017 New Year Lecture will be entitled: "A Curious Story" It will be imparted by: Otto E. Rossler University of Tuebingen It will be posted in a few days, at the author's convenience. In the interim, discussants are kindly requested to take a rest, stop the exchanges,

[Fis] NEW YEAR LECTURE

2016-01-01 Thread PEDRO CLEMENTE MARIJUAN FERNANDEZ
Dear FIS Colleagues, During these early days of 2016, we will have the customary New Year Lecture, entitled: THE NEW FORCES OF HISTORY Imparted by: Howard Bloom Author of: The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History Member: New York Academy of Sciences, American

Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture – The Correct Level of Analysis?

2015-04-27 Thread Francesco Rizzo
Caro Marcus Abundis, il non-duale o l'uni-duale modello non è costituito da rumore (entropia) & segnale, ma da interpretazione & informazione (neg-entropia). E se vogliamo approssimarci di più alla realtà liberamente creata dobbiamo analizzare l'uni-trialità: entropia (rumore), interpretazione, neg

[Fis] New Year Lecture – The Correct Level of Analysis?

2015-04-27 Thread Marcus Abundis
Hi Terry – and “first-time greetings“ to FIS colleagues, First, Terry, thank you for your continued effort with this contentious topic. It is truly necessary and worthwhile “heavy lifting.“ Second, in reading all prior postings I am drawn to your 30 Jan. note: > . . . I haven't felt that the s

Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture: Aftermath

2015-04-25 Thread Francesco Rizzo
ssex; > > Guest Professor Zhejiang Univ. <http://www.zju.edu.cn/english/>, > Hangzhou; Visiting Professor, ISTIC, > <http://www.istic.ac.cn/Eng/brief_en.html>Beijing; > > Visiting Professor, Birkbeck <http://www.bbk.ac.uk/>, University of > London; > > http:

Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture: Aftermath

2015-04-24 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Pedro C. Marijuan Sent: Friday, April 24, 2015 2:34 PM To: Terrence W. DEACON; 'fis' Subject: Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture: Aftermath Dear Terry and colleagues, I hope you don't mind if I send some suggestions publicly. First, thank you for the aftermath, it provides appropriat

Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture: Aftermath

2015-04-24 Thread Terrence W. DEACON
Hi Guy, Yes. At the very basic level that I explore with these ultra simple model systems it would not be easy to distinguish perception and reaction. Both involve interpretive steps, in that only some material features—specifically those with potentially disruptive or constructive potential for s

Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture: Aftermath

2015-04-24 Thread joe.bren...@bluewin.ch
stantiate the necessary ontological complexity and commitment. Cheers, Joseph Message d'origine De : dea...@berkeley.edu Date : 24/04/2015 - 10:22 (PST) À : pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es Cc : fis@listas.unizar.es Objet : Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture: Aftermath Hi Pedro, Indeed, you capture a

Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture: Aftermath

2015-04-24 Thread Guy A Hoelzer
Hi Terry, I have used the term ‘perception’ in referring to in-formation that affects internal structure or dynamics. This would contrast with forms of potential information that might pass through the system without being ‘perceived’. For example, we have a finite number of mechanisms we cal

Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture: Aftermath

2015-04-24 Thread Terrence W. DEACON
Hi Pedro, Indeed, you capture a fundamental point of my work. I entirely agree with your comment about living processes and their internal "informative" organization. The three exceedingly simple molecular model systems (forms of autogenesis) that I discuss toward the end of the paper were intende

Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture: Aftermath

2015-04-24 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear Terry and colleagues, I hope you don't mind if I send some suggestions publicly. First, thank you for the aftermath, it provides appropriate "closure" to a very intense discussion session. Second, I think you have encapsulated very clearly an essential point (at least in my opinion): /"

[Fis] New Year Lecture: Aftermath

2015-04-22 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear FIS colleagues, Herewith the comments received from Terry several weeks ago. As I said yesterday, the idea is to properly conclude that session, not to restart the discussion. Of course, scholarly comments are always welcome, but conclusively and not looking for argumentative rounds. Remember

Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture - redux

2015-04-21 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Thanks Marcus, it is nice to greet to new, interesting parties joining the list. The aftermath message was received some weeks ago --Terry's agenda made him very difficult to continue the discussions of the New Year Lecture, which on the other side was planned for no longer than 4 weeks or so.

[Fis] New Year Lecture - redux

2015-04-19 Thread Marcus Abundis
Hi Pedro, In this reprise of Deacon's(?) talk, I assume the discussion will orient around the same paper Terry made available to the group earlier. If a new version of that paper is to be considered, please let me know. I am new to the FIS group and presently busy going over last January's not

[Fis] FIS NEW YEAR LECTURE

2015-01-07 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear FIS Colleagues, Following our recently established tradition, for the 2015 FIS New Year Lecture we will count with: * _Terrence W. Deacon_* Professor of Anthropology Cognitive Science Faculty University of California at Berkeley He will impart the Lecture: _*"Steps to a Theo

[Fis] New Year Lecture wrap-up

2014-01-21 Thread Dino Buzzetti
Dear Hans, Thank you very much again for your lecture and your subsequent comments and replies. I dare posting a new comment as an aftermath to your wrap-up and to Pedro's official closure. But I am sure you agree with me, that the matter cannot be settled yet and that a continuation of the disc

Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture Closure

2014-01-20 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear Hans, Dear colleagues, Thanks a lot for the good, generous job done. It has been a pleasure attending to your Lecture and to the discussion it has originated. There are quite many reflections to make and to develop in the future. QBism has general overtones, as was cogently explained, that

Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture wrap-up

2014-01-19 Thread Francesco Rizzo
Caro Pedro e cari tutti, questa e-mail dell'egregio Hans von Baeyer mi ha stimolato a segnalare, ancora una volta, quanto sia stato anticipatore il mio pensiero scientifico-economico sull'importanza della legge dell'informazione a partire, ad es.,dagli inizi degli anni Ottanta. Sia chiaro, non rive

[Fis] New Year Lecture wrap-up

2014-01-18 Thread Hans von Baeyer
Dear Friends: In keeping with the message of my lecture, that knowledge of the world is based on the ensemble of individual experiences, more than on assumed objective, actual properties of an external reality, I will tell you about my experiences of writing and discussing the New Year Lecture. I e

Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture

2014-01-03 Thread PEDRO CLEMENTE MARIJUAN FERNANDEZ
Dear Hans and FIS colleagues, Thanks for the elegant text! It marks a great beginning for the FIS tradition of celebrating a Lecture with the New Year! Not being very conversant with QM interpretations let me restrict myself to general aspects of QBism that gra

Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture

2014-01-03 Thread John Collier
At 02:55 AM 2014/01/03, Joseph Brenner wrote: Happy New Year and Goodwill to all FIS'ers and distinguished guests!   I found the concept of Quantum Bayesianism as presented by Professor von Baeyer most interesting. From the point of view of bringing the subject-object balance back into physics it

Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture

2014-01-02 Thread Joseph Brenner
Best wishes, Joseph - Original Message - From: Hans von Baeyer To: fis@listas.unizar.es Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2014 9:25 PM Subject: [Fis] New Year Lecture Quantum Bayesianism (QBism): An interpretation of quantum mechanics based on quantum information theory

[Fis] New Year Lecture

2014-01-02 Thread Hans von Baeyer
*Quantum Bayesianism (QBism): An interpretation of quantum mechanics based on quantum information theory* Hans Christian von Baeyer, Professor of Physics, emeritus College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia January 2014 I am honored and proud to be asked by Pedro to inaug