[Fis] list discussions

Dear FIS colleagues, It is a long time that we do not have discussions in the list. I have not been able to arrange any other "planned session" after Bob Logan's one, due to work reasons (changing to a new job months ago). It is not sure at all that in a few weeks there will be a new session

[Fis] Info Science Comments

DearFISers, I am athome, incubating a flu, and during a week or so I will be out of touch –justwith Morpheus. About the comments received, not having the messages here, Iwill try to remember the initial bunch of contents. In Rafael’squestion on the info status of our concepts, I would take

[Fis] news from Beijing

Dear FIS colleagues,The conference in Beijing is over. Both in contents discussions, and in organizational advancements, a remarkable success has been achieved.Such an exciting time we have have had! Important novelties concerning future discussion-sessions in the list, new research possibilities

Re: [Fis] Fw: Recapping the discussion? Joseph's Recap

Forwarded message, From Jamie Rose De James Rose integr...@prodigy.net Fecha Fri, 15 Oct 2010 06:42:39 -0700 (PDT) A fis@listas.unizar.es CC ro...@home.ease.lsoft.com Asunto Re: [Fis] Recapping the discussion? Joseph's Recap And not to be overlooked is Robert Rosen's

[Fis] FW: The Background to Modern Science

From: James Hannam [mailto:b...@bede.org.uk] Sent: 02 February 2011 13:17 To: 'fis@listas.unizar.es' Subject: The Background to Modern Science Dear FIS list members,My sincere thanks to Pedro for asking me to contribute to a discussion on the origins of modern science.  The subject is vast and

Re: [Fis] Background to Modern Science

Dear James and FIS colleagues,Thanks for the scholarly text! I much appreciate allthe contents of your well-framed essay –so the task of establishing adiscussion on its contents is not easy at all. Given my general agreement with the structureof “presences” you have established,  Iwill go for

Re: [Fis] Our condolences to Japan colleagues for the earth quake tragedy in Japan --K.Markov

We all join Krassimir's message of solidarity and condolences with our FIS colleagues of Japan. Such a tragic event... ---Pedro - Mensaje original - Krassimir Markov mar...@foibg.com Saturday 12 March 2011, 11:33 am Our condolences to Japan colleagues for the earth quake tragedy in Japan

Re: [Fis] There is no Information Science.

Dear FIS colleagues,Thanks toMarcin for his well-thought reinterpretations of the blind men parable. Time ago Iwas concerned about the reactions that the FIS project would provoke amidstclassical information science practitioners (very susceptible blind men type).I was invited to some

[Fis] Information Dichotomies

Dear FISers, Just a couple of comments on the many subjects raised last week. When Koichiro Matsuno discusses several dichotomies related to information, the disjunction he makes between treatment or description by first person and by third person is quite intriguing. I think that in every

[Fis] ongoing FIS discussion

- Mensaje original - Message from Bruno Marchal--Hi Jerry, hi List, On 06 Jun 2012, at 17:43, Jerry LR Chandler wrote: but offhand it seems to me to depedn on a sort of idealism that I do not accept. It does not. It does rely on Church thesis,

Re: [Fis] The Information Flow

Dear FISers, Continuing with the comments on the how versus the what, it is an important topic in mammalian (vertebrate) nervous systems. They are subtended by mostly separate neural tracts (though partially interconnected), it is the dorsal stream, specialized in the how where, and the

Re: [Fis] The Information Flow

Dear FISers, Is it interesting the discussion on wether those informational entities contain realizations of the Aristotelian scheme of causality or not? The cell, in my view, conspicuously fails --it would be too artifactual an scheme. Some parts of the sensory paths of advanced nervous

Re: [Fis] The Information Flow

Dear colleagues, Yes, the foundations are trembling... as usual during quite long a time. Maybe too many aspects have to be put into line in order to have new, more consistent foundations for human knowledge. Until now the different crisis of Mechanics, the dominant scientific culture, have

Re: [Fis] Dark Matter (R.Ulanowicz)

- Mensaje original - De: Robert Ulanowicz u...@umces.edu Fecha: Sábado, 29 de Diciembre de 2012, 4:26 pm ** Stan, We know that the Fine-Structure Constant, alpha, has changed over the course of the universe

Re: [Fis] Step Six

Sorry for the delay, Karl. Here it is.  ---Pedro - Mensaje original - De: Karl Javorszky karl.javors...@gmail.com Fecha: Martes, 18 de Diciembre de 2012, 3:55 pm Asunto: spam filter A: Pedro C. Marijuan pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es Hi Pedro, happy Xmas and New Year! The spam filter

Re: [Fis] FIS News (Moscow 2013)

Dear Joseph and FIS colleagues, Thanks for the friendly message. Let me introduce you all the organizing team of the Open University conference: Magnus Ramage, David Chapman, and Chris Bissell --they did a great job there and we are fortunate that they have joined our list too. As I invited

Re: [Fis] Information Revolution/ What next? --Msg from V.A.

- Mensaje original - De: vann1936 vann1...@gmail.com Fecha: Jueves, 2 de Mayo de 2013, 9:06 am Asunto: Fwd: Information Revolution/ What next? A: Marijuan Pedro C. pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es Dear Pedro Sorry to disturb you by a communication problemI failed to send this message to

[Fis] SOCIOTYPE SESSION

Dear FISers, We are starting the new course 2013-14. Lets begin by ANNOUNCING THE NEXT DISCUSSION SESSION: - THE SOCIOTYPE: SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND BEYOND Raquel del Moral (Bioinformation Group, IACS)

Re: [Fis] social flow

: jueves, 21 de noviembre de 2013 20:22 Para: Roly Belfer; PEDRO CLEMENTE MARIJUAN FERNANDEZ Cc: fis@listas.unizar.es Asunto: Re: [Fis] social flow Dear Roly, Dear Pedro, Thank you for taking this thread in a for me very interesting direction. As you know, interesting means what I find my logical

Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture

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

[Fis] RV: Nomino-realism and QM? Modal Possibilty or Modal Necessary Logic?

De: en nombre de Jerry LR Chandler [jerry_lr_chand...@mac.com] Enviado el: viernes, 03 de enero 2014 List, Joseph: On Jan 3, 2014, at 2:55 AM, fis-requ...@listas.unizar.esmailto:fis-requ...@listas.unizar.es wrote: Happy New Year and Goodwill to all FIS'ers and

[Fis] RV: Encoding and Decoding information-- From Jerry Chandler

De: mailman-boun...@listas.unizar.es [mailman-boun...@listas.unizar.es] en nombre de Jerry LR Chandler [jerry_lr_chand...@me.com] Enviado el: domingo, 02 de febrero de 2014 6:33 Para: fis-ow...@listas.unizar.es Asunto: Re: Encoding and Decoding information

[Fis] FIS 20, Summer in Varna

Dear FISers, this is a reminder about the FIS Summer Conference in Varna to celebrate the 20 years of this initiative. Below I include the basic technical information of the meeting. An important point: the period for early inscription and important discount in hotel prices will end the next 28

Re: [Fis] MEPP

Terry, about the below, it is quite correct; you don't need to respond all messages, even more if they leave the main theme. Usually the two messages per week rule terminates automatically those chained responses and counter-responses. In any case, it is upon you, our invitee. best --Pedro

Re: [Fis] Steps to a theory of reference significance

Para: PEDRO CLEMENTE MARIJUAN FERNANDEZ Cc: fis Asunto: Re: [Fis] Steps to a theory of reference significance Hi Pedro, Jeremy Sherman here, a long-time pirate. Pleased to meet you. You say: I am also critical with the autogenesis model systems--wouldn't it be far clearer approaching

[Fis] RV: Response to Pedro's first comments. --Bob Ulanowicz

Message from Bob Ulanowicz De: Robert E. Ulanowicz [u...@umces.edu] Enviado el: viernes, 09 de enero de 2015 19:30 Para: fis@listas.unizar.es Asunto: Re: [Fis] Response to Pedro's first comments: Terry Deacon wrote: 3. The self-regulating self-repairing

Re: [Fis] RV: THE FOURTH GREAT DOMAIN OF SCIENCE: INFORMATIONAL? (R.Capurro)

De: Rafael Capurro [raf...@capurro.de] Enviado el: martes, 19 de mayo de 2015 14:06 Para: PEDRO CLEMENTE MARIJUAN FERNANDEZ Asunto: Re: Fwd: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender ...then the problem is, how can a 'realist' detach theoretical problems from

[Fis] RV: What are information and science?

Dear FIS colleagues, The message (below) is quite interesting, as were several others e.g., the ongoing exchange between Moises and Loet. The clever work on the maps of science can help quite a bit to provide a more firm grounding to the whole informational enterprise (domain) and to others

[Fis] RV: FIS List – Locality? From Marcus

The list is now working well, all should address their messages directly... --Pedro De: Marcus Abundis [55m...@gmail.com] Enviado el: lunes, 28 de septiembre de 2015 17:57 Para: Steven Ericsson-Zenith Cc: PEDRO CLEMENTE MARIJUAN FERNANDEZ Asunto: FIS List

[Fis] RV: Tragedy in USA (from Krassimir)

De: Krassimir Markov [mar...@foibg.com] -Original Message- Dear Michel and FIS Colleagues, Please, let me share the sorrow about victims of the terror! Now the world is under great danger! Civilization could not stop the aggression! We need to

Re: [Fis] January Lecture--Information and the Forces of History

Dear Howard and Colleagues, Many thanks for your contribution! This is the third time we have a New Year Lecture, and the first one devoted to humanities. Well, to the "inhumanities" should I say, as what you have depicted succinctly with the Lucifer Principle describes the main evil that has

[Fis] NEW YEAR LECTURE

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,

Re: [Fis] January Lecture--Information and the Forces of History

to all (and particularly thanks to Hans for his hyper-kind comment!) --Pedro ____ De: howlbl...@aol.com [howlbl...@aol.com] Enviado el: miércoles, 06 de enero de 2016 0:37 Para: PEDRO CLEMENTE MARIJUAN FERNANDEZ; fis@listas.unizar.es Asunto: Re: [Fis] January Lecture--Inform

[Fis] NEW DISCUSSION SESSION: THE BIOLOGIC

Dear FISers and New Colleagues, Louis H. Kauffman (Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago) is going to start another short discussion session, this time it will be focussed on the biologic. He will concentrate on the relationships of

[Fis] TOWARDS A NEW SESSION: SOEREN BRIER

Dear FISers, Tomorrow we will start the new session on Infobiosemiotics, by Soeren Brier. Before so, let me pen some comments. First, to join Plamen and others in thanking Louis. Particularly interesting for me was his last text on recursive distinctioning. Quite curiously, an old work of

[Fis] TOWARDS A NEW DISCUSSION SESSION (A. HANKEY)

Dear FIS colleagues, Thanks to Soeren for his presentation, as usual several themes remain lingering and may resurface during future exchanges. But now it is the time of ALEX HANKEY. He will post quite soon his presentation about "Phenomenology of Life." (Next Monday I will be able to upload

Re: [Fis] Towards a 3φ integrative medicine

Dear Plamen and FIS Colleagues, Discussing on integrative attempts in medicine is really challenging. I do not think that the marriage proposed by Stan, yoking medicine with semiotics in films grounds, will have much progeny. Rather, if we disentangle medical practice from biomedical research

[Fis] FIS Survey for PhD research.

Dear FIS Colleagues, A member of our list, Moises Andre Nisenbaum, is investigating for his PhD the interdisciplinary links between Physics and Information Science. One of the data sources of his empirical research is the FIS mailing list itself. Because of this, he wants to directly ask list

Re: [Fis] WHY WE ARE HERE? ...AN UNPLEASANT ANSWER?!

The exchange below between Arturo and Otto is interesting. I donate one of my two cents to relay it. Greetings to all--Pedro De: tozziart...@libero.it [tozziart...@libero.it] Enviado el: sábado, 25 de febrero de 2017 8:25 Para: Otto E. Rossler Cc: PEDRO CLEMENTE

Re: [Fis] Scientific communication (from Mark)

De: Mark Johnson [johnsonm...@gmail.com], Dear Dai, Rafael, Loet and all, Thank you for your comments - the theological connection interests me because it potentially presents a paradigm of a more vulnerable and open dialogue. Loet, clearly the

Re: [Fis] Is quantum information the basis of spacetime?

Andrei, have you tried with information as "distintion on the adjacent"? It would neatly apply to the living but also to the physical, i think. Best --Pedro Enviado desde mi dispositivo Samsung Mensaje original De: Andrei Khrennikov Fecha:

Re: [Fis] Lecture in London: Biophysical Motion, Feeling and Thinking, Response (ERICSSON)

-- Forwarded message -- From: Steven Ericsson-Zenith > Date: Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 8:55 PM Subject: Lecture in London: Biophysical Motion, Feeling and Thinking, Response To: fis@listas.unizar.es I will be in

[Fis] Intelligence Science in Chengdu

Dear FIS Colleagues, During past days a conference on Intelligence Science was hold in Chengdu. It was organized by Zhao Chuan (fis member, who presented in this list about the same topic last year), and was chaired by Yixin Zhong (well known in this list too). Western FIS parties who attended

[Fis] A Curious Story

De: Otto E. Rossler [oeros...@yahoo.com] Enviado el: miércoles, 04 de enero de 2017 17:51 Para: PEDRO CLEMENTE MARIJUAN FERNANDEZ Asunto: NY session -- A Curious Story Otto E. Rossler, University of Tübingen, Germany Maybe I am the only one who finds

[Fis] New Year Lecture

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

[Fis] RV: Something positive (From Arturo Tozzi)

De: tozziart...@libero.it [tozziart...@libero.it] Enviado el: jueves, 22 de diciembre de 2016 14:08 Para: fis@listas.unizar.es; PEDRO CLEMENTE MARIJUAN FERNANDEZ Asunto: Something positive Dear FISers, it's excruciating... We did not even find an unique definition of information, life, brain

[Fis] Concluding the Session (& Picture)

Dear FISers, I have been requested the URL of the Nativity scene (blocked by some servers). It is in a very beautiful and monumental Church (El Pilar) worth some google exploration. Here it is the address:

Re: [Fis] WHY WE ARE HERE? ...AN UNPLEASANT ANSWER?!

Beatiful ideas. Poetic prose in action... Great, Bruno! --Pedro Enviado desde mi dispositivo Samsung Mensaje original De: Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> Fecha: 3/3/17 19:08 (GMT+01:00) Para: PEDRO CLEMENTE MARIJUAN FERNANDEZ <pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es>, fis

Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture

Pedro On Wed, 3 Jan 2018 07:15:43 -0800 JOHN TORDAY wrote: Dear FIS Colleagues, I have attached my New Year Lecture at the invitation of Professor Pedro Clemente Marijuan Fernandez. The content relates a novel perspective on the mechanism of evolution from a cellular-molecular vanta

[Fis] End of the NY Lecture

Dear FISers, Like in previous years, we conclude the Opening Lecture within the first week of February. Many thanks to John Torday and all the participants--maybe he is willing to pen some concluding comments. Otherwise we will be heading towards a new session. Best regards --Pedro PS. By

Re: [Fis] What is the “mental model”?

Dear Krassimir and FIS colleagues, Many thanks for your message & effort to prepare the compilation to be published soon. It is good counting with dissemination works that take these information debates to different environments so that new insights and conceptual cross fertilizations may

[Fis] New Year Lecture

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

Re: [Fis] Is Dataism the end of classical hypothesis-driven research and the beginning of data-correlation-driven research?

Dear Alberto, Many thanks for the kickoff text. I will try to produce a couple of direct comments. You have reminded me of the early 70's, when I first approached science. A few computers had made their entrance in the university halls. During those years, and for some decades to come, a new

Re: [Fis] Is Dataism the end of classical hypothesis-driven research and the beginning of data-correlation-driven research?

actions, often with huge potential. Why do not try to elevate them to the level that they deserve?  I am not sure if the FIS forum members can follow me. Can you? All the best. Plamen On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 6:15 PM, PEDRO CLE

[Fis] Meta-observer?

Dear FISers, Although I share Terry's concern, I do not think that expostulating one's general framework is going to facilitate the discussions. Perhaps oposite, as it will introduce a trend towards generalization that fortifies the perspectival differences and makes the rhetorics less