[Fis] Greetings from Varna/FIS Summer School

Dear FIS Colleagues, The special GIT conference devoted to FIS topics just ended last Sunday. Five people of this list (Marcin, Karl, Joseph, Krassimir and myself) plus other researchers from Eastern countries participated in the sessions. The place was a wonderful resort in the seaside, and t

[Fis] end of session

Dear FIS colleagues, The ongoing session on information theory ("information: mystery solving") will be closed soon. At his convenience, Mark Burging will send the usual Colophon with his impressions and some synthesis. These are pretty complicate weeks for teaching and research, so some pau

[Fis] [announce] CfP: The Difference that Makes a Difference2011]--QTQ

Message from QTQ -- Dear Pedro and Fisers, The philosophical underpinnings of information? Information Being no Criterion for Truth. Information of an objective reality is non-unique, but could be very indefinite. This condition is named information rheology. Th

[Fis] [announce] CfP: The Difference that Makes a Difference 2011]--John Collier

Message from John Collier You are invited to *The Difference that Makes a Difference 2011*, a workshop to discuss the way that information has been conceptualised across a range of disciplines. Location: The Open University, Milton Keynes,

[Fis] The world of singularities, beyond language

Dear Joseph and colleagues, In some important respect, language is only a clever means to an end. It is a way for transmitting knowledge from an individual to another. Following Dunbar (2010), the real issue is the mental, cognitive mechanisms and abilities that underly language... and seeming

Re: [Fis] The world of singularities, beyond language]

Participants are reminded the rule of only two messages per week!! ---Pedro Rafael Capurro escribió: well... not exactly. This is the way Hegel (and others) looked at it, discarding the 'singulars' or including them into the particulars and so creating a dialectics of the universal and the par

[Fis] The world of singularities, beyond language - John Collier

Message from John Colier Hi all, This is interesting, as it brings up some ancient issues that continue to roil philosophy. I think that C.S. Peirce has the best answer to these puzzles (and does not eliminate the wonder). For his (realist) pragmatacism

[Fis] Discussion on INFORMATION THEORY--Stan

STAN On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 3:47 AM, Pedro C. Marijuan mailto:pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es>> wrote: Dear Joseph, On Similarity and Differences The human nervous system processes both the similarity and the diversity properties of the world (of the sensous impressions the or

[Fis] Note

Thanks, Rafael, for the nice posting. I should clarify however that the original message was from Karl. I re-entered it into the list but forgot to put the usual label at the beginning "message from...". These days spam filters are too active and I have to intervene quite often, thus it happen

Re: [Fis] replies to Quiao, Pedro, Krassimir & Loet---Stan

Message from Stan I have replied to Gordana's question offline, but will paste it in here: Gordana -- Good question! The specific answer is that in thermodynamics we now have the maximum energy dispersion principle (or, more generally, the maximum entropy production princip

[Fis] Reply to John Collier--Ted Goranson

characterization? I get the big picture, both as the notion of a big picture and with some concurrence on the extremes. But surely there is a more leverageable parsing of this space than a simple hierarchy, no? --Ted On Apr 29, 2011, at 6:37 AM, Pedro C. Marijuan wrote: > Message from John Coll

Re: [Fis] Discussion on INFORMATION THEORY--Karl

Dear Joseph, On Similarity and Differences The human nervous system processes both the similarity and the diversity properties of the world (of the sensous impressions the organs transmit). We polarise in our mental concepts based on evolutionary achievements. For the animal, it brings surviv

[Fis] Discussion on INFORMATION THEORY--J.Brenner

Message from Joseph Brenner - Dear Karl, In closing your note, you wrote: "and we shall have overcome a long division between those who employ the difference property between a and b, and those who apply the similarity property of a and b." One way

Re: [Fis] replies to Quiao, Pedro, Krassimir & Loet---John Collier

Message from John Collier -- At 10:27 PM 2011/04/27, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic wrote: Content-Language: en-US Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_5663F8A6694A73468C89A06AAE92B2B604436807642BMBXCLUSTERm_" Stan, I have a question. I don'

[Fis] Discussion on INFORMATION THEORY--Karl Javorszky

Message from Karl Javorszky - Information – A Culture Shock Dear Fis, We keep coming back to the Middle Ages. The real achievement of the Fis group is, that here professionals both from biology and the hard sciences

Re: [Fis] [Re: [Different GTI]

Dear Igor, Joseph, Krassimir, QTQ... and All, It is my contention that the most universal form of information is unattainable. Whatever the notion chosen, it is always feeding back and forwards with the subject him/herself and the conceptions or frame of thought which are momentarily held by t

[Fis] [Re: [Different GTI] --From K. Markov

east - to clear correspondences between theories we know well. Everybody is invited and every opinion is welcome! I hope the result will be a monograph. It may be published by ITHEA publishing house on paper, CD and free online. Friendly regards Krassimir *From:* Pedro C. Mari

[Fis] [Fwd: About payment of fees for GIT 2011]--K.Markov

Message from Krassimir Marvov -- Dear Pedro and FIS Colleagues, The registration fees for GIT 2011 may be paid at the conference desk. You can save money not paying bank commissions. The only what we need is to receive registration card to book hotel for you. Reg. card is

[Fis] [Different GTI] --From QTQ

Message from Qiao Tian-qing -- Dear FISers There is another general theory of information (GTI_A ). I consider, The customarily named information is the collection of three kinds of things´ attributes: things themselves (including cau

Re: [Fis] ON INFORMATION THEORY

Dear FIS colleagues, Many thanks to Mark for his elegant and stimulating kickoff--which has already achieved quite a few thought-provoking comments. Accumulation of work has precluded me an earlier participation. My brief point concerns the role of Shannon's theory and the unifying advancements s

[Fis] [Fwd: ON INFORMATION THEORY] Karl Javorszky

Message from Karl Javorszky Dear Mark and Fis, Re: Information and Mystery Solving Thank you for your opening statement and questions. Please allow me to make

[Fis] ON INFORMATION THEORY--Mark Burgin

Discussion session on information theory: * * *INFORMATION: MYSTERY SOLVING* *Mark Burgin* Professor & Visiting Scholar Department of Mathematics University of California at Los Angeles http://www.math.ucla.edu/~mburgin/ mbur...@math.ucla.edu On the one hand, information is the basic phenome

[Fis] Brief Response

Dear FIS colleagues, Just a brief response to some of the parties who recently commented my previous one. In particular, my greetings to Pridi, first member of Inbiosa who has posted. I have copied an excerpt below, of an ongoing manuscript on "practicalities" related to the knowledge recombin

[Fis] ANNOUNCING THE NEW SESSION

Dear FIS Colleagues, In a couple of days we will start the new discussion session on information theory: * INFORMATION: MYSTERY SOLVING* chaired by: *Mark Burgin* Professor & Visiting Scholar Department of Mathematics University of California at Los Angeles http://www.math.ucla.edu/~mburgin/

Re: [Fis] Discussion colophon--James Hannam. Orders and Ordering Principles

Dear FIS colleagues, I have some differences about the epistemic stance recently discussed by Karl, Loet (and in part, Joseph, but he looks more as trying to step on "the reality", whatever it is). Basically, their informational subject looks like the abstract, disembodied, non-situated, classi

[Fis] Discussion colophon--James Hannam

Dear all, Thank you very much to Pedro for asking me to suggest a discussion for the list and to everyone else for indulging me. As a historian, I have learnt that questions I naively thought were quite simple have turned out to be very complicated indeed. The purpose of history, I think,

Re: [Fis] Hannam's Contentious Postulate. The Peircean Mirror

Dear Gordana and colleagues, Your quotation "But I would rather risk such reproaches than accept the present situation, in which philosophers argue only with dead biologists and biologists only with dead philosophers... " is quite funny and descriptive. In my terms, the recombination of knowl

Re: [Fis] Hannam's Contentious Postulate

Dear FISers, Thanks to Loet for his modest proposal "Foundations of the Science of (DIS) Order"... (when managing the list I really agree!). The comments by Jerry are much appreciated, indeed: I am eagerly waiting for opinions and criticisms on the "knowledge recombination" theme. However, c

[Fis] [Fwd: Re: Hannam's Contentious Postulate---Karl J.

Message from Karl Javorszky Mensaje original Asunto: Re: [Fis] Hannam's Contentious Postulate---John Collier Fecha: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:32:25 +0100 De: karl javorszky Responder a:karl.javors...@gmail.com Para: Pedro C. Marijuan Referencias:<

Re: [Fis] Hannam's Contentious Postulate---John Collier

Message from John Collier Mensaje original Asunto: Fwd: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender Fecha: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:29:17 +0200 De: John Collier Para: Pedro C. Marijuan A response to Jerry A series of responses to recent posts of James

[Fis] Info in Science History

Dear FIS colleagues, First of all, a reminder about the GIT (General Information Theory) Conference, this June in Varna (www.ithea.org ). Joseph Brenner and me are trying to organize some decent fis session there: list people are cordially invited to accompany us in the e

[Fis] [Fwd: RE: Social Validation of Knowledge]--Gavin Ritz

Message from Gavin Ritz Stan SS: I think this view, given the obtuse attitudes of most academic scientists, requires a label, preferably one that shocks. Yes, this view was prefigured by logicians, and as well, most forcefully in my view,

[Fis] Social Validation of Knowledge

Dear FISers, I was intrigued with the recent exchange between James, Jerry and others. Taking the central topic --limitations of ancient science, particularly Aristotelian one, to develop into modern science-- from another angle, my contention is that the main transformations from Ancient to M

[Fis] FIS website

Dear FIS colleagues, Finally we are going to have an actualized FIS website! Please, have a glance at: http://infoscience-fis.unizar.es/ The site is in development, due to cooperation with FISer /Javier Garcia Marco/ of the University of Zaragoza (he posted a couple of weeks ago on "medieval

Re: [Fis] a FISer's mail

Dear Zhao, Thanks a lot for your elegant message days ago. I am including it again (below), for when I re-entered it into the list the message lost too many characters, and the nice figure at the bottom disappeared. While reading your enjoyable text, one feels that information can be a tremen

[Fis] [Fwd: Spring Season Greetings !] From Krassimir Markov

Message From Krassimir Markov -- Spring Season Greetings ! Dear FIS Colleagues, ITA 2011 Summer Session submission is opened and will be closed at the end of March. Please visit http://ita.ithea.org and submit your papers for GIT Int. Conference or any

[Fis] [ Re: please correct]--From Karl Javorszky

Message from Karl Javorszky -- Dear Qiao Tian-qing, thank you for inviting my opinion in your viewpoints re information. To the cultural embedding of the term "information": this cannot be otherwise. If we had a clear and precise definition of any one l

Re: [Fis] social combinatoric intelligence--From QTQ

IS2010, in Beijing Conference). Common features of information, i.e. things' attributes. Moreover, please take care of those false information based on nothing. Thanking the patience! Qiao Tian-qing -------- QTQ Pedro C. Marijuan escribió: Dear FISers, Thanks to

Re: [Fis] social combinatoric intelligence

Dear FISers, Thanks to Javier, for the beautiful posting. Apart from those personal factors he mentions, I would also include the organization of knowledge itself. The discipline of rhetorics, included within the Trivium, was an important cohesive force governing the relationships between disci

[Fis] social intelligence (& discussion prospects)

Dear FIS colleagues, One of the aspects of the discussion started by James concerns the medieval achievements on collective or social intelligence, so to speak. I mean, we can see how the crucial civil institutions for the emergence of modern societies in the Western world were started around

[Fis] (Monastic) Background to Modern Science]--Bob Ulanowicz

Peace, Bob - Quoting "Pedro C. Marijuan" : Dear James (& Krassimir, Jerry...) and all FIS colleagues, I tend to disagree with James about the relatively minor role assigned to monasteries in the development of medieva

[Fis] [Fwd: The Backround of Modern Science]---Karl

Form Karl (complete message) Further to Leonardo and why the outsider - he who proposes a wholly unusual idea - does better to remain in the dark. The reality concept is different between the avant-garde and the main body. They live in diffe

[Fis] [Fwd: Re: (Monastic) Background to Modern Science]--Krassimir Markov

emerged from Ancient Science adding new interconnections between scientists, i.e. between "monasteries" from all over the world. Friendly regards Krassimir P.S. Dear Pedro, please forward. -Original Message- From: Pedro C. Marijuan Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2011 3:13 PM To

[Fis] (Monastic) Background to Modern Science

Dear James (& Krassimir, Jerry...) and all FIS colleagues, I tend to disagree with James about the relatively minor role assigned to monasteries in the development of medieval science and technology. Let me ad a couple of further arguments: 1. Social complexity. Some FISers will remind Joseph T

Re: [Fis] [Fwd: Foundational Views of Shannon Information Theory]--From Gavin Ritz

Message from Gavin Ritz This is a very good post Jerry. The problem is the science has not got to grips with most of logic, * Declarative logic yes, (built on this)- True, false statements * Imperative logic: no, * Interr

[Fis] [Fwd: Re: Background to Modern Science]--From K. Markov

Message from Krassimir Markov Dear FIS Colleagues, Let me point two important characteristic of “Background to Modern Science” in addition of freedom to doubt the dogmas. (1) The freedom to make experiments (It is easy to remember Da V

[Fis] [Fwd: Foundational Views of Shannon Information Theory]--From Jerry Chandler

Note: a session on information theory is programmed just after the current one. Info theorists discussants are kindle requested to wait a little and keep on the present track. ---Pedro -- *Message f

Re: [Fis] Background to Modern Science--From James Hannam

Msg. From James Hannam -- * *Absences?** Joseph and Pedro brought up three subjects between them that impinge on the origins of modern science which I said little about. * * *Logic* As Joseph says, logic changed

Re: [Fis] The Background to Modern Science--From Krassimir Markov

Message from Krassimir Markov: --- a response to *"The Background to Modern Science"* *Introduction* The interrelations between scientific and non-scientific creating and perceiving the information and information models as well the

[Fis] [Fwd: Re: [Fwd: Info Theory]--From John Collier

xible and open to different approaches that they don't find intuitively or experientially appealing. John At 01:22 PM 1/31/2011, Pedro C. Marijuan wrote: *From:* Krassimir Markov <mailto:mar...@foibg.com> *Sent:* Sunday, January 30, 2011 2:13 AM *To:* fis@listas.unizar.es <mailto:fis@

[Fis] Announcing the New Session

Dear FISers We are heading now towards a new discussion session, on *"BACKGROUND TO MODERN SCIENCE".* It will be chaired by *Dr. James Hannan*. James Hannam has a BA in Physics from the University of Oxford and a PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge.

[Fis] [Fwd: Info Theory]--From Krassimir Markov

*From:* Krassimir Markov *Sent:* Sunday, January 30, 2011 2:13 AM *To:* fis@listas.unizar.es *Subject:* Re: [Fis] Info Theory Dear Colleagues, In the beginning of the XX-th century (approximately 100 years ago!) the great Bulgarian poet P

[Fis] preparations

Dear FIS colleagues, The next session is already arranged: James will start in around one week "The Background to Modern Science" (the announcement very soon). For the the following discussion about info theory, the idea is that we explore a new modality, "discussion express". Rather than spend

[Fis] comments & next session

Dear FIS colleagues, I found very intriguing the "fast & furious" messages of past days. One of the main triggers, I think, was Karl's response to Joseph's requests on his info theory... The logic of distinctions that Karl worked out years ago was in my view an outstanding contribution (the us

[Fis] ongoing discussion

Dear colleagues, Current discussants are kindly reminded that this is a very austere list: POSTING IS RESTRICTED TO TWO MESSAGES PER WEEK. Also, new people entering into the list are supposed to briefly self-introduce themselves. Sorry about the interruption--keep your best arguments for the co

[Fis] GIT (& FIS) conference at ITA 2011

FIS Friends, Within the ITA series of conferences planned by the ITHEA organization for this year, there will be the GIT (General Information Theory) Int. Conference which is co-organized with FIS. The GIT conference is announced from June 20 until June 26, with two plenary days June 25 and

Re: [Fis] Ostension and the Chemical / Molecular Biological Science. FROM STAN

I think that there is no objective evidence that the world apart from us, is logical. STAN -- On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 6:00 AM, Pedro C. Marijuan mailto:pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es>> wrote: Message From Jerry Chandler (Please post to FIS)

[Fis] Ostension and the Chemical / Molecular Biological Science

Message From Jerry Chandler --- (Please post to FIS) List, Stan: Are you serious about taking up scientific ostension? A. Lavoisier was the first to apply a systematic theory of information to ostensive but invisible and indivisible relations within materially

[Fis] Future discussions (of the Past?) --From Jerry Chandler

Message From Jerry Chandler - (Please post to FIS) Pedro, List: Your proposal to discuss the historical foundations of social information processing is welcomed. One of the frequent erroneous presuppositions of past discussions of FIS has been the implicit adoption

[Fis] Future discussions

Dear FIS Colleagues, Thanks to Yixin for his Colophon. I was a nice way to close the past discussion session on "Intelligence and Information" and to reconnect with our mail exchanges in this New Year. As for the coming sessions, there are a few commitments and possibilities prepared. --Theme:

[Fis] Discussion COLOPHON --From Y.X.Zhong

(Discussion COLOPHON --From Y.X.Zhong) Dear FIS friends and colleagues, It was very nice to have such a good discussion on the topic of "Intelligence and Information" during the past weeks. From every point of view, I should say that the discussion was really fruitful and hence successful. I

[Fis] [Fwd: Karl is all right, too...but] Msg From QTQ

disciplinary development --i.e., "what cannot be defined", in the present case. ---Pedro Mensaje original Asunto: Karl is all right, too. but Fecha: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:04:28 +0800 De: whhbs...@sina.com Para: Pedro C. Marijuan Dear Pedro Karl is all

Re: [Fis] Closing Comments? From Qiao T.Q.

An interesting message from Qiao Tian-qing Note: attachments are not much welcome by the host server of this list. --P. Mensaje original Asunto: I agree with you Fecha: Sat, 18 Dec 2010 10:52:38 +0800 De: whhbs...@sina.com Para: pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es D

Re: [Fis] Closing Comments?

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 in

[Fis] Closing Comments?

FIS Friends, Like in most of our excursions, in the present one we have stumbled upon a very interesting and exciting "attractor". Rather than throwing ourselves into a deep discussion about the modes of social knowing and their historical interrelationship my suggestion is that we sidestep t

Re: [Fis] reply to Javorsky. Plea for (responsible) trialism

Dear Stan and colleagues, Taking it literally, isn't it a pure contradiction, an oxymoron, attempting a "scientific" "mythology"? The mythos is the way of knowing purely based on tradition and on the firmest doubtlessness, where the source of authority comes only from magnificent ancestors...

[Fis] [Fwd: Gerald O'Grady on McLuhan]

Great posting received from Bob Logan, about the Centennial of Marshal McLuhan. No doubt that in the human realm McLuhan has been one of the most advanced thinkers on "information" and "intelligence"; indeed the great pioneer in "social information science." ---Pedro Mensaje original

Re: [Fis] Doctrine of Limitation. Starting Points

Dear Joseph, Walter, Stan... & FIS colleagues, Following the track of "dissipative systems" and the prebiotic or biotic conditions of cellular organization is fine. But concerning the connection between "information" and "intelligence" (somehow still responding to Yixin's first question) other

[Fis] New people in the FIS List

Dear FIS colleagues, this is to welcome (most of) the participants at the Beijing 2010 FIS conference. Actually all of them were already inscribed in late August, but due to a system failure a number of addresses disappeared (as I have accidentally discovered very recently!!). Sorry about that

[Fis] Doctrine of Limitation

Dear FISers, Thanks to Christophe for his agents "narrative" and to Joseph for openly "buying" populational thinking and the doctrine of limitation. As for the narrative, I concur that the link between intelligence and info implies the introduction of some "agent" thinking --what kind of agent

Re: [Fis] fis Digest, Vol 543, Issue 19

Dear FIS colleagues, very briefly stated (ugh, no spare time, devoured by ugly application forms!), I think that quantification as Guy demands can only occur in some small corners of our discussion areas, but not in the fundamental ideas, not well crafted yet. For instance, I take from a recent

Re: [Fis] fis Digest, Vol 543, Issue 19

Dear John and FIS colleages, I much agree (below) with the return to the biological; also Gordana and Raquel had already argued along these guidelines. It does not mean that things become very much clearer initially in the connection between information and intelligence, but there is room for

Re: [Fis] INTELLIGENCE & INFORMATION (by Y.X.Zhong)

Dear FIS colleagues, It is quite nice reading along the messages of this new discussion session. In particular, Krassimir's posting is very interesting for me in two senses. It represents an important research community of information scientists/engineering practitioners (strong in Easter Euro

Re: [Fis] INTELLIGENCE & INFORMATION (by Y.X.Zhong)

Dear Yixin and FIS colleagues, (at fis discussions the costume is to use first names!) Many thanks for your scholarly text. At first glance one can think that you have multiplied the problems: we barely cope with the information science discussion and now you ask us adding the scientific constr

[Fis] [Fwd: replying to colophon ] By John Collier

This message from John Collier after the colophon of the past discussion was rejected by the server last Friday; discussants willing to respond are kindly asked to do it off line. Pedro - Asun

[Fis] INTELLIGENCE & INFORMATION (by Y.X.Zhong)

*Intelligence and Information* *Yi-Xin-Zhong* /Beijing// University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing100876, China/ yxzh...@ieee.org * 1. The Study of Intelligence Science * Intelligence has been very well regarded as the most valuable wealth for mankind, compared with other attr

[Fis] [Fwd: Discussion Colophon] From J.Brenner

(For unknown reasons this message didn't went through last Tuesday---P.) Mensaje original Asunto: The Fluctuon Model; Colophon Fecha: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:44:48 +0100 De: Joseph Brenner Responder a:Joseph Brenner Para: Pedro C. Marijuan , fis Dea

[Fis] Towards a New Session

Dear FISers Many thanks to Joseph for his creative colophon to the current discussion session and for his diligent chairing --thanks to Kevin for his cooperation too. We are heading now towards a new discussion session, on "INTELLIGENCE AND INFORMATION". It will be chaired by Professor Yi-Xin-

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

this), that information cannot > be defined completely by reference to a sentential logic such as that > proposed by Karl. Further, I am very curious, and would welcome > comments on in relation to information, about progress in the theory > of dissipative systems that has been mad

[Fis] Recapping the discussion?

Dear FIS colleagues, A usual practice in past chaired discussions is that after the first round of debates, after three weeks or so like in the current session, the chairs recap the discussion by refocusing it on the most salient or relevant aspects, or just by pointing to some unnoticed connec

[Fis] [Fwd: replying to...]-From Guy Hoelzer

Mensaje original Asunto: [Fis] replying to Kevin and to Joseph Fecha: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 10:14:50 -0700 De: Guy A Hoelzer Para: Pedro Clemente Marijuan Fernandez CC: Stanley N. Salthe Stan et al., I certainly understand that the meaning of a bit of informat

[Fis] [Fwd: replying to...]-From Guy Hoelzer

Mensaje original Asunto: [Fis] replying to Kevin and to Joseph Fecha: Mon, 04 Oct 2010 10:14:50 -0700 De: Guy A Hoelzer Para: Pedro Clemente Marijuan Fernandez CC: Stanley N. Salthe Stan et al., I certainly understand that the meaning of a bit of informat

[Fis] [Fwd: physics and information]-From Jacob Lee

Mensaje original Asunto: physics and information Fecha: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 19:23:34 -0700 (PDT) De: Jacob I Lee Para: Pedro C. Marijuan CC: fis@listas.unizar.es Hello, The recent discussion of the fluctuon model has made me curious about how closely a

[Fis] [Fwd: RE: Beijing FIS Group]--From Yan Xueshan

discoveries behind the modern sciences by the title of Information, I personally admire very much Pedro C. Marijuan' words: “The advancement in the solution of this puzzling concept, entrenched into the foundations of numerous disciplines, may demand drastic changes in view” presented in

Re: [Fis] Revisiting... --From Dieter Gernert

(herewith a very interesting text received off-line from a newcomer to our list --welcome Dieter!---Pedro) -- 1. For many years I highly estimate the work of Michael Conrad -- whom I never could see or hear in person. So the

Re: [Fis] Revisiting the Fluctuon Model

Dear FISers, Thanks to Kevin and Joseph for their excellent texts --and to the many other responding parties. For my own argumentation purposes I find very useful the comments from Stan, Kevin Clark, Koichiro. There are three different aspects I would like to deal with. Given my burden of nasty

[Fis] Revisiting the Fluctuon Model

(The previous message was truncated, sorry. I am sending it again. ---P.) *THE NATURE OF MICROPHYSICAL INFORMATION:* *REVISITING THE FLUCTUON MODEL* *Kevin G. Kirby *Department of Computer Science Northern Kentucky University (US) *Joseph Brenner* International Center for Transdisciplinary

[Fis] Revisiting the Fluctuon Model

*THE NATURE OF MICROPHYSICAL INFORMATION:* *REVISITING THE FLUCTUON MODEL* *Kevin G. Kirby *Department of Computer Science Northern Kentucky University (US) *Joseph Brenner* International Center for Transdisciplinary Research Paris (France) 1. OPENING REMARKS (Kevin Kirby) In the standar

[Fis] ANNOUNCING THE NEW SESSION

Dear FIS Colleagues, In a couple of days we will start the new discussion session: THE NATURE OF MICROPHYSICAL INFORMATION: REVISITING THE FLUCTUON MODEL chaired by: Kevin G. Kirby Chair, Department of Computer Science Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights KY 41099 ki...@nku.edu (859

[Fis] Lauri Grohn--[Fwd: Re: Beijing FIS Group]

Mensaje original Asunto: Re: [Fis] Beijing FIS Group Fecha: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:06:30 +0300 De: Lauri Gröhn Para: Pedro C. Marijuan Referencias: <000301cb53b7$6af4f4b0$6400a...@viewsonic> <4c923c73.3050...@aragon.es> Dear colleagues, I won

Re: [Fis] Beijing FIS Group

Dear Xueshan and Beijing colleagues, After the salutation, given that the main business of the FIS list is discussion, let me make a few comments on your methodological point. > 3. OUR COMMON VISION ON INFORMATION SCIENCE: Within the > diversity of opinions of the group, a common position is > t

[Fis] Beijing FIS Group--Welcome!

Dear Xueshan, Dear Beijing FIS Group, Dear FIS colleagues, Very exciting news! The Beijing FIS Group is cordially welcome into the FIS discussion list and Info Science community. It is an impressive array of scholars; I am sure we all will benefit from their reflections and contributions. Also,

[Fis] Vacational Posting

Dear FISers, During next weeks I will be away (some vacations plus the Beijing conference), unable thus to do any maintenance on the list messages. In order to avoid rejection by the spam filters here, take care of sending the messages directly as "to" and not as "cc." In case of rejection, you

Re: [Fis] Curious chronicle

research question: how can we shape icts in order to foster real communities? wolfgang http://hofkirchner.uti.at/ Am 21.07.2010 um 12:10 schrieb Pedro C. Marijuan: Dear Rafael, Bob, and FIS Colleagues Thanks a lot for the erudite comment and the elegant Latin. I quite agree about that chal

[Fis] [Fwd: Re: Curious chronicle]

Mensaje original Asunto: Re: [Fis] Curious chronicle Fecha: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:32:39 +0200 De: Wolfgang Hofkirchner Para: Pedro C. Marijuan CC: fis@listas.unizar.es Referencias: <4c3c3ae4.8000...@aragon.es> <20100713064753.1253

Re: [Fis] Curious chronicle (msg. from R. Capurro)

Mensaje original Asunto: Re: [Fis] Curious chronicle (msg. from Jacob Lee) Fecha: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:49:20 +0200 De: Rafael Capurro Responder a:raf...@capurro.de Para: Pedro C. Marijuan , fis@listas.unizar.es >> "fis@listas.unizar.es&qu

Re: [Fis] Curious chronicle

Dear Rafael, Bob, and FIS Colleagues Thanks a lot for the erudite comment and the elegant Latin. I quite agree about that challenging aspect. However, I keep thinking that the whole new communication technologies are adding to the decreasing "sociotype" of individuals in todays' society. Like T

Re: [Fis] Curious chronicle (msg. from Jacob Lee)

(msg. to FIS from Jacob Lee) Richard Sipes' classic study found a direct correlation between combative sports and violent or war-like societies: SIPES, RICHARD G. 1973. War, Sports and Aggression: An Empirical Test of Two Rival Theories . American Anthropologist 75, no. 1: 64-86. doi:10.1525/aa.

Re: [Fis] Curious chronicle (msg. from J. Collier)

ny young men requires this kind of excitement because of their hormone mix. STAN On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Pedro C. Marijuan mailto:pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es>> wrote: Dear FISers, Looking for an informational explanation of soccer, or other sports, as was asking Jose

Re: [Fis] Curious chronicle

Dear FISers, Looking for an informational explanation of soccer, or other sports, as was asking Joseph, one can look at the internal side of the event. Then, as Jorge and Bob have done, one can discuss about the panorama of networking relationships or the "ascendancy" of the different elements

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