Re: [Fis] Closing Comments?

2010-12-20 Thread Igor Gurevich
Dear Pedro C. Marijuan! Dear Dear Colleagues! DEFINITION OF CONCEPT “INFORMATION” 1) D. Doucette in work “Challenges for Those Constructing a Science of Information as an Evolving Unique Discipline” presented at Fourth International Conference on the Foundations of Information Science: Towards a

Re: [Fis] Closing Comments?

2010-12-20 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear FIS colleagues, Well, I am making a try on those tough questions... Q1. What is the correct concept of intelligence? It should refer to entities with capability to adjust (adapt) their inner processes and configurations to their environment, either following an autopoietic life cycle or

Re: [Fis] Closing Comments?

2010-12-20 Thread Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
Hello FIS colleagues, I like Igor's suggestion: “Information is heterogeneity, stable for some definite time”. A simpler general version is Bateson's: Information is the difference that makes the difference Best wishes, Gordana Gordana Dodig

Re: [Fis] Replies to Walter Loet

2010-12-20 Thread Stanley N Salthe
Replying to Loet -- On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 1:59 AM, Loet Leydesdorff l...@leydesdorff.netwrote: Replying to Loet -- Your distinction between the backward looking institutional viewpoint and the forward looking evolutionary perspective is cogent, but it plays down the fact that the