[Fis] New Discussion Session: PLANCKIAN INFORMATION

2017-03-22 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear FIS Colleagues, Almost on the eve of the Göteborg summit IS4SI 2017, with a FIS conference there (http://is4si-2017.org/program/conferences/fis-2017/), it may be a good idea to re-ignite our discussions with a very enticing topic: the proposal of a specific type of information with

[Fis] Fwd: Re: WHY WE ARE HERE? ...AN UNPLEASANT ANSWER?! From Jerry Chandler

2017-03-09 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Mensaje reenviado Asunto: Re: [Fis] WHY WE ARE HERE? ...AN UNPLEASANT ANSWER?! Fecha: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 21:36:55 -0600 De: Jerry LR Chandler Para: fis Webinar CC: Pedro Marijuan ,

[Fis] Fwd: Unpleasant answer ? From Bruno Marchal

2017-03-10 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear Pedro, dear Jerry, dear List, On 07 Mar 2017, at 04:36, Jerry LR Chandler wrote: de Chardin has also cast a long and durable shadow over my mind for decades for decades. His writings both provides some guidance on the form of time and opens rich questions that bring fruit. While I

[Fis] Gothenburg 2017

2017-06-20 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear FIS Colleagues, The Third IS4SI Conference, and at the same time the Seventh of FIS, in Gothenburg 2017 is over. Many thanks to our colleague Gordana and the organization team around her for making possible the event. It was a very fine experience indeed. Like in Vienna 2015, there were

[Fis] Fwd: THANK YOU FOR IS4SI GÖTEBORG & POST-SUMMIT MATTERS

2017-06-20 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Mensaje reenviado Asunto: THANK YOU FOR IS4SI GÖTEBORG & POST-SUMMIT MATTERS Fecha: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 09:11:51 +0200 De: i...@sciforum.net Responder a:do...@chalmers.se Para: gordana.dodig-crnko...@chalmers.se DIGITALISATION FOR A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY Dear

[Fis] PRINCIPLES OF IS

2017-09-15 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear FIS Colleagues, As promised herewith the "10 principles of information science". A couple of previous comments may be in order. First, what is in general the role of principles in science? I was motivated by the unfinished work of philosopher Ortega y Gasset, "The idea of principle in

[Fis] Fwd: Re: PRINCIPLES OF IS

2017-09-19 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Mensaje reenviado Asunto: Re: [Fis] PRINCIPLES OF IS Fecha: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 09:21:51 +0200 De: Rafael Capurro <raf...@capurro.de> Responder a:raf...@capurro.de Para: Pedro C. Marijuan <pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es> Dear Pedro, a short comment t

Re: [Fis] Fwd: PRINCIPLES OF IS

2017-09-22 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
as 17:46, Michel Godron escribió: My remarks are written in red Bien reçu votre message. MERCI. Cordialement. M. Godron Le 20/09/2017 à 13:54, Pedro C. Marijuan a écrit : Dear FISers, Many thanks for all the comments and criticisms. Beyond concrete agreements/disagreements the discussion is li

Re: [Fis] Fwd: Re[2]: Heretic

2017-10-05 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear FIS Colleagues, There is no problem with heretics in this list. They are very welcome as they make us think on our favorite ideas in a different way or even from an opposed angle. We must always maintain the scholarly tone, that's the only condition! (well, apart from the "two messages

[Fis] CFP - 6th WORLD CONGRESS ON UNIVERSAL LOGIC - Vichy, June 2018 (From Jean-Yves)

2017-09-06 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear FIS colleagues, herewith an interesting announcement from Jean-Yves Beziau. Next week I will send some comments to start our discussions... Best postvacational greetings! --Pedro Mensaje reenviado Asunto: CFP - 6th WORLD CONGRESS ON UNIVERSAL LOGIC - Vichy, June

[Fis] FIS New Course discussions

2017-09-13 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear FIS Colleagues, The leisure time of vacations is over and it would be time to reassume the list exchanges. There were several interesting sessions which had been planned for this new course, but unfortunately none of them seems possible in a short term. In order that these "dry" months

Re: [Fis] Principles of IS

2017-09-29 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear FISers, I also agree with Ji and John Torday about the tight relationship between information and communication. Actually Principle 5 was stating : "Communication/information exchanges among adaptive life-cycles underlie the complexity of biological organizations at all scales."

Re: [Fis] Fw: PRINCIPLES OF IS. The Pre-Science of Information

2017-10-06 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
alism; computationalism /and /non- or natural computationalism; information as a physical /reality/ and a non-physical /appearance/. I look forward with great interest to the lines of development of this thread. Best wishes, Joseph - Original Message -

Re: [Fis] Verification of the Principle of Information Science

2017-10-19 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear All, After Xueshan clarion call, I partially change what I was writing. Of course I have to thank him for his support of the 10 principles. Actually, in connection with the recent exchanges, particularly with Gordana's and John (Torday) posts, I was working in some ideas further related

[Fis] Informatics of DNA (Sungchul Ji)

2017-11-29 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Message from Sungchul Ji It was too heavy for the list server. You can see the complete version at: http://fis.sciforum.net/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2014/11/Sung_informatics-of-DNA.pdf

[Fis] Info Meta-Science?

2017-11-30 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear FISers, The recent message by Sung (& Karl), and a previous one by John T. make me the impression that what they are considering becomes closer to a meta-science of information rather than to the nucleus of a possible information science discipline. Sung's and John's views are widely

[Fis] Fwd: Re: Informatics of DNA (From Sungchul)

2017-12-01 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
; were replaced by "information". Do you think is it feasible to replace all "gene" with "information" completely at last? Best wishes, Xueshan *From:*fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] *On Behalf Of *Pedro C. Marijuan *Sent:* Wedne

[Fis] some notes

2017-11-13 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear All, Herewith some notes on the exchanges of past weeks (sorry, I was away in bureaucratic tasks). 1. Agents & Information. There were very good insights exchanged; probably both terms make a fertile marriage. Actually I have been writing about "informational entities" or "subjects" as

[Fis] Abiding by the rule

2018-05-25 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Participants are reminded about the limit of two messages per week--those not abiding are sanctioned offline. Best--Pedro - Pedro C. Marijuán Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es

Re: [Fis] If always n>0 why we need log

2018-06-03 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Sorry Sung, you know about the rules of engagement in this list... you have gone to 5 msgs. And that means one and half weeks of sanction. Even more after having warned you privately several times. Anyhow, tomorrow I will make public an embarrassing bureaucratic procedure that the list has to

[Fis] Resetting of FIS List (Keep this message)

2018-06-04 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear FISers, The message below tells that the List has to follow the recent European Law on Data Protection. It means that everyone has to confirm and give explicit consent to participate in the list. I understand that today or during next days you will receive a confirmation message

[Fis] Fwd: Re: Verification of the Principle of Information Science--John Torday

2017-10-19 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
; Para: Pedro C. Marijuan <pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es> Dear All, I feel like the beggar at the banquet, having arrived at the FIS of late in response to Pedro's invitation to participate, having reviewed our paper on 'ambiguity' in Progress in Biolphyics and Molecular Biology (see atta

Re: [Fis] The two very important operations of Infos

2017-10-27 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear Loet and colleagues, One of the advantages of a new discipline is the simplification of discourse, the creation of a new space where you can easily build new knowledge without copious management of other unnecessary, circumstantial ideas. I have already quoted in this list the famous

[Fis] Code Biology

2018-01-11 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear FISers, this Conference in Code Biology may be of interest to some parties. It will be in beautiful Granada (Spain), next June. Although the deadline for abstract submission is too close, there would be a longer term if requested to the organizers. I hpe to see you there. Best--Pedro

Re: [Fis] New Year Lecture

2018-01-09 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear Soeren and Colleagues, The symbiogenesis theme (Margulis' endosymbiotic theory) is one of the aspects to reconsider/reenter into the basically evo-info (if I may say) novissima synthesis. Margulis views were received in the 70's and 80's with tremendous hostility from the Neo-Darwinian

[Fis] Summing up: New Year Lecture

2018-01-22 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear FISers, Going to the extreme, I think this year opening lecture can be summarized in three contentious points. 1. That life's physiology is based on the conjunction of a few principles: neguentropy, chemiosmosis, and homeostasis-homeorhesis. 2. That communication (cell signaling) is

Re: [Fis] Summing up: New Year Lecture--J.Torday

2018-01-23 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Mensaje reenviado Asunto: Re: [Fis] Summing up: New Year Lecture Fecha: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 07:02:42 -0800 De: JOHN TORDAY <jtor...@ucla.edu> Para: Pedro C. Marijuan <pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es> Dear FISers, I greatly appreciate Pedro's comments rega

Re: [Fis] Summing up: New Year Lecture

2018-01-30 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
the true nature of Nature can be fully understood. As for smaller increments, the work of Daniel Fels on electromagnetic communication between cells may hold the answer (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4793142/). Best, John On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 5:41 AM, Pedro C. Marijuan

[Fis] Season Greetings / Merry Christmas

2017-12-22 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear FIS Colleagues, Herewith the customary Christmas scene at El Pilar Basilica of Zaragoza. It is a really beautiful place that you should visit... I promise not to be a bad amphitryon ;) As for the next sessions, we will have the traditional New Year Lecture, and then another two sessions

[Fis] Reflections on Evolution Theory, by J. S. Torday

2018-01-04 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
­Given that the archive system does not preserve the attached files, I include herewith the whole text of the NY Lecture Best--Pedro --- New Year Essay for FIS *Reflections on

Re: [Fis] Summing up: New Year Lecture

2018-01-24 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
;From Cholesterol to Consciousness" (see attached) so I look forward to reading your comments about that idea as well, since it has the potential to fully integrate physics and biology in my humble opinion. On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 4:01 AM, Pedro C. Marijuan <pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.e

[Fis] TOWARDS A NEW SESSION

2018-04-24 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear FIS Colleagues, A very interesting discussion theme has been proposed by Mark Burgin --he will post at his early convenience. Thanks are due to Alberto for his "dataism" piece. Quite probably we will need to revisit that theme, as it is gaining increasing momentum in present "information

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

2018-03-27 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Thanks Plamen, very interesting references and comments. There are many new avenues opening around data, from nasty ones (recent politics) to the economic, biomedical and scientific in general. It is a very important "information" theme of our time. Perhaps I disagree that deep learning could

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