Dear Konstantin, Dear Zong-Rong,
In your joint work, I feel you make critical contributions to the theory of
information, its science and its philosophy on the one hand. On the other, you
insist on the necessity of applying this knowledge to real human problems,
individual and social. As a complex entity, with complex dualistic properties
�C material and (apparently) immaterial, present and absent, meaningful and
not-meaningful �C information can play, in the term of Mark Burgin, a unique
role as a social operator. These are some points that I noted in a first
reading:
a.. Informatics, information science, information theory and information
philosophy are terms that can coexist. Sometimes one is more appropriate or
suggestive than the other, but all are part of informationalism, an
informational worldview or “stance” (Wu Kun).
b.. Attention on information can reestablish the importance and value of less
obviously physical aspects of reality without falling back into pure idealism
or transcendentalism.
c.. Thus, an informational psychology is possible that overcomes the
one-sidedness of “physical” psychology (and I would add psychiatry and
sociology).
Pragmatically, an informational approach is capable of obtaining the attention
of people because they have learned to value information in its reduced sense
(technological advances at the lowest level). The result is the definition of a
humanistic, transdisciplinary program that deserves the best efforts of all of
us to implement.
Thank you and best wishes,
Joseph
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From: Zong-Rong Li
To: Raquel del Moral ; fis
Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2013 4:39 PM
Subject: Re: [Fis] A "young" science?--Zong-Rong LI
Dear all,
Please open the attached files and give comments. Thank you!
Best,
Zong-Rong
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>From："Raquel del Moral"
>To："fis"
>Subject：[Fis] A "young" science?
>Date：2013-06-07 00:07:31
Dear all,
Last week I posted into the list to present myself as a new collaborator
in the Fis secretariat, now I would like to talk about my other
"profile": I am a graduate student, making the PhD in neurosocial
information. I am working in the structure of human relationships,
social bonds, and in the dynamics of person-to-person communication from
an evolutionary point of view (I have done my degree on biology).
From hereon, I think that PhD students should try to enter into Fis
discussions more often (I am sure that among the 300 FISers there
should be several tens of PhDs!). We should be able to post our own
ideas and to coordinate a "junior" session too. I think FIS forums are a
great platform to exchange ideas and they could be very enriching to
develop our Theses. At least I will risk to post the central ideas of my
own thesis in a few weeks, with the hope that a good debate could be
established... isn't the new information science a "young" science??
Best,
Raquel
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Raquel del Moral
Grupo de Bioinformacion / Bioinformation Group
Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud
Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Aragón (CIBA)
Avda. San Juan Bosco 13, 50009 Zaragoza
Tfno. +34 976 71 44 76
e-mail.rdelmoral.i...@aragon.es
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