Dear Colleagues, solving the puzzles of our generation certainly requires a co-ordinated effort from many sciences. Research into the functions of the human brain has unearthed some perceptional artefacts of humans. These methods of perceptions are optimised for the tasks of biologic entities - as hunt for prey, fight with carnivores, hiding and disguising, e.g. -, but can prove less optimal if dealing with the non-living world. Our nervous system has been optimised for tasks different to the task of solving problems of theoretical physics or of information theory, let alone theoretical genetics. Maybe the approach of un-doing the perceptional optimisiation results of our nervous system can be of some help.
Nature itself cannot be mysterious. If we experience a set of rules as non understandable, this can only be caused by our thinking habits. If we cannot understand how something works which obviously works (like magnetism, electricity, gravitation or genetics), the problem can only lie with our way of looking at it, not with the natural process itself. This brings us to the task of searching for ways where we make errors of judgement, where we are led by our nervous system to hold something for self-evident, although it is not. Maybe we have prejudices in believing some aspects of Nature to be important while they are important only in our eyes (and ears and skin and Golgi apparatus, etc...), or disregarding the importance of some aspects, because we are used to believe that these aspects are not important at all. Looking into which aspects we believe important and whioch aspects are there and what if we use less of prejudices on the subject of importance and relevance can be - in my beliefs - a practical inroad towards understanding how Nature actually works. After all, it must be a "no na", that is, a self-evident truism of no surprise. The oinly surprise we should encounter is that about how we managed not to notice the self-delusion we suffered before. I believe FIS is sufficiently competent to catch this EU pot of honey. There are quite many competent scientists in the rows of FIS and we have the openness of mind to achieve good results. The time may be right, also. Someone, somewhere will certainly start thinking about the perceptional artefacts we are used to and what if one discounts all that which has erroneously been thought to be important and not important among the aspects of a description of Nature. We should catch the opportunity. Karl 2009/9/19 Joseph Brenner <joe.bren...@bluewin.ch> > Dear Friends, > > The two FET projects Pedro describes are quite different, and there is > little that I feel I could contribute to the first. As far the FIS > enterprise is concerned, I was not present at its inception, but I feel it > has /potential/ as a topic, but that some additional structure as regards > its own 1) scope and objectives, 2) methods and 3) conclusions would be > necessary. > > If others think likewise, draft suggestions could be made in these > categories (and/or others), perhaps first to Pedro for compilation. > > Best wishes, > > Joseph > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Pedro C. Marijuan" <pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es> > To: "fis" <fis@listas.unizar.es> > Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 11:45 AM > Subject: [Fis] European Research? > > > Dear FIS colleagues, > > Herewith I am including the web address to download the "Future and > Emerging Technologies" document that has been proposed by the European > Union as a framework for "transformative research" and for "challenging > current thinking"... well, at least the funding is very good. > > The case is that some FIS parties are trying to articulate a preliminary > pre-draft about the quest for a "Neurodynamic Central Theory." We would > welcome (I am included) interested people from neurosciences and > closely related fields. Actually, the FIS enterprise itself could be > another potential topic to propose. > > best wishes > > Pedro > > > http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/fet-open/home_en.html > > in that page, at "latest documents", download: > "FET-Open in FP7 - Extract from 2009-2010 Work Programme" > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------- > Pedro C. Marijuán > Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group > Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud > Avda. Gómez Laguna, 25, Pl. 11ª > 50009 Zaragoza. España / Spain > Telf: 34 976 71 3526 (& 6818) Fax: 34 976 71 5554 > pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es > ------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > fis mailing list > fis@listas.unizar.es > https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis > > _______________________________________________ > fis mailing list > fis@listas.unizar.es > https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis >
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