Re: [Fis] POSTS ON TERRY' S BOOK - PRESENTED BY DEACON

2012-05-04 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan

Dear Gordana, Hector and colleagues,

I keep thinking that the theme of absences is really fundamental for 
advancing the foundations of information science, but I am disappointed  
by the way Terry has oriented the book. Both style and contents are 
inadequate for my taste. He continues to do what he did in previous 
papers, highly promising ones (as some parties discussed in past 
messages we had in the list); pointing to exciting new absential aspects 
but finally focusing in the physical ones (without much new enlightenment).


In my opinion the most appropriate direction to advance an absential 
calculus of sorts is the language of SYMMETRY. Several parties in this 
list have already discussed the theme (me included). Symmetry breaking 
and symmetry restoration and related formal tools are the way to tackle 
the absential dimension in the genuine informational entities: cells, 
nervous systems, societies (and the vacuum!!). To reiterate that the 
fundamental point is not about computation, but about self-construction. 
Those absences refer to gaps,  functional voids in the 
self-construction cycles/processes of those entities --there might be 
'natural computation' associated, eg, in cellular signaling systems, but 
finally the ruling aspect is about self-maintenance and reproduction. We 
could also enlist McLuhan in this critical position regarding the 
physicalist-computationalist interpretations, I think.


So, after a glance in the whole book, I am now in the detailed reading 
of Chapter 4, with mounting disappointment... Incomplete Book!! Deeper 
exploration needed!!


best

---Pedro



Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic escribió:

Dear Hector,

This might be a good way, Terry Deacon presenting his book:
http://fora.tv/2012/04/18/Incomplete_Nature_How_Mind_Emerged_From_Matter 


What I find fascinating with this book is the whole dynamical framework,
from thermodynamics, to morphodynamics and teleodynamics.
See also: 
http://www.american.edu/cas/economics/info-metrics/pdf/upload/Beavers-Oct-2011-presentation.pdf

For sure, Deacon is not computationalist and his ideas of information and 
computation are pretty classical ones.
But it does not matter in this context. For a computationalist all three kinds 
of dynamics are computational processes,
and corresponding structures are informational structures.

With best wishes,
Gordana


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Behalf Of Hector Zenil
Sent: den 27 april 2012 22:40
To: Pedro C. Marijuan
Cc: fis@listas.unizar.es
Subject: Re: [Fis] POSTS ON TERRY' S BOOK

Could someone summarize why Terrence Deacon's book is such a presumed
breakthrough judging by the buzz it has generated among FIS
enthusiasts?

Thanks.


On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Pedro C. Marijuan
pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es wrote:
  

Dear colleagues,

Krassimir Markov's suggestion is excellent. Next year we could have a
FIS conference in his place, centered in the exploration of the new info
avenue drafted by Terrence Deacon's book, and started by Stuart Kauffman
and others. Previously my suggestion is that we have a regular
discussion session (like the many ones had in this list). A couple of
voluntary chairs, and an opening text would be needed. Sure Bob Logan
could handle this (perhaps off list) and we would have a fresh
discussion session for the coming months.

Technical Note: the current messages are not entering in the list; the
filter is rejecting them as there are too many addresses together.
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as Cc. Otherwise I will have to enter them one by one.

best

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Re: [Fis] POSTS ON TERRY' S BOOK - PRESENTED BY DEACON

2012-05-04 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Dear colleagues, 

 

Differently from “The Symbolic Species,” “Incomplete Nature” is “too
naturalistic” for my taste. It seems to me that the incompleteness and
absences are consequential to selection mechanisms operating. Selections can
operate recursively and lead to hyper-selection, trajectory formation (some
selections can be selected for stabilization), or regime formation (some
stabilizations can be selected for globalization).

 

Adding reflection to systems (such as in symbolic species) adds layers of
selection; for example, by distinguishing between meaning-processing and
information-processing. Selection mechanisms can only be hypothesized (as
genotypical to systems). A naturalistic approach will not capture this
knowledge-based layer of discursive selections, in my opinion. 

 

Perhaps, I missed the message.

 

Best wishes,

Loet

 

  _  

Loet Leydesdorff 

Professor, University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), 
Kloveniersburgwal 48, 1012 CX Amsterdam. 
Tel.: +31-20- 525 6598; fax: +31-842239111
l...@leydesdorff.net  mailto:l...@leydesdorff.net ;
http://www.leydesdorff.net/ ;
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYJ
http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYJhl=en hl=en 

 

From: fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] On
Behalf Of Pedro C. Marijuan
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 11:35 AM
To: Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
Cc: fis@listas.unizar.es
Subject: Re: [Fis] POSTS ON TERRY' S BOOK - PRESENTED BY DEACON

 

Dear Gordana, Hector and colleagues,

I keep thinking that the theme of absences is really fundamental for
advancing the foundations of information science, but I am disappointed  by
the way Terry has oriented the book. Both style and contents are inadequate
for my taste. He continues to do what he did in previous papers, highly
promising ones (as some parties discussed in past messages we had in the
list); pointing to exciting new absential aspects but finally focusing in
the physical ones (without much new enlightenment). 

In my opinion the most appropriate direction to advance an absential
calculus of sorts is the language of SYMMETRY. Several parties in this list
have already discussed the theme (me included). Symmetry breaking and
symmetry restoration and related formal tools are the way to tackle the
absential dimension in the genuine informational entities: cells, nervous
systems, societies (and the vacuum!!). To reiterate that the fundamental
point is not about computation, but about self-construction. Those
absences refer to gaps,  functional voids in the self-construction
cycles/processes of those entities --there might be 'natural computation'
associated, eg, in cellular signaling systems, but finally the ruling aspect
is about self-maintenance and reproduction. We could also enlist McLuhan in
this critical position regarding the physicalist-computationalist
interpretations, I think.

So, after a glance in the whole book, I am now in the detailed reading of
Chapter 4, with mounting disappointment... Incomplete Book!! Deeper
exploration needed!! 

best

---Pedro



Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic escribió: 

Dear Hector,
 
This might be a good way, Terry Deacon presenting his book:
http://fora.tv/2012/04/18/Incomplete_Nature_How_Mind_Emerged_From_Matter 
 
What I find fascinating with this book is the whole dynamical framework,
from thermodynamics, to morphodynamics and teleodynamics.
See also:
http://www.american.edu/cas/economics/info-metrics/pdf/upload/Beavers-Oct-20
11-presentation.pdf
 
For sure, Deacon is not computationalist and his ideas of information and
computation are pretty classical ones.
But it does not matter in this context. For a computationalist all three
kinds of dynamics are computational processes,
and corresponding structures are informational structures.
 
With best wishes,
Gordana
 
 
-Original Message-
From: fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] On
Behalf Of Hector Zenil
Sent: den 27 april 2012 22:40
To: Pedro C. Marijuan
Cc: fis@listas.unizar.es
Subject: Re: [Fis] POSTS ON TERRY' S BOOK
 
Could someone summarize why Terrence Deacon's book is such a presumed
breakthrough judging by the buzz it has generated among FIS
enthusiasts?
 
Thanks.
 
 
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Pedro C. Marijuan
 mailto:pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es wrote:
  

Dear colleagues,
 
Krassimir Markov's suggestion is excellent. Next year we could have a
FIS conference in his place, centered in the exploration of the new info
avenue drafted by Terrence Deacon's book, and started by Stuart Kauffman
and others. Previously my suggestion is that we have a regular
discussion session (like the many ones had in this list). A couple of
voluntary chairs, and an opening text would be needed. Sure Bob Logan
could handle this (perhaps off list) and we would have a fresh
discussion session for the coming months.
 
Technical Note: the current messages

Re: [Fis] POSTS ON TERRY' S BOOK - PRESENTED BY DEACON

2012-05-04 Thread Krassimir Markov
Dear Gordana, Pedro ans FIS colleagues,

Now I am too busy with the summer conferences and have no time to explain in 
deep what I think about Terry’s book.

Shortly I can say that many already clear phenomena in the book are presented 
as “just invented or to be invented”.

At the first place the idea of “constraint” which is well know phenomena of 
valences and processes of resolving them.

Yes, Pedro, the “symmetry” is the right way because it closely correlate with 
well known “reflection” :-)
And from many years there exist “Theory of reverberation” concerned to it.

The conference is just the place where we may discuss all ideas.

Friendly regards
Krassimir






From: Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic 
Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 1:08 PM
To: Pedro C. Marijuan 
Cc: fis@listas.unizar.es 
Subject: Re: [Fis] POSTS ON TERRY' S BOOK - PRESENTED BY DEACON

Dear Pedro,

 

I am sure that Terry Deacon would agree with you – the book is incomplete, and 
it leaves host of open questions.

But that is what makes it attractive. It is a book that moves and provokes 
thoughts. 

So the idea to organize a conference about Incomplete Nature is a very good 
idea.

 

All the best,

Gordana

 

 

 



Dr Dr Gordana Dodig Crnkovic, 

Associate Professor

School of Innovation, Design and Engineering

Mälardalen University

Sweden

http://www.mrtc.mdh.se/~gdc/

 

Organizer of the Symposium on Natural/Unconventional Computing, 
the Turing Centenary  World Congress of AISB/IACAP

https://sites.google.com/site/naturalcomputingaisbiacap2012  

 

 

 

 

From: Pedro C. Marijuan [mailto:pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es] 
Sent: den 4 maj 2012 11:35
To: Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
Cc: Hector Zenil; fis@listas.unizar.es
Subject: Re: [Fis] POSTS ON TERRY' S BOOK - PRESENTED BY DEACON

 

Dear Gordana, Hector and colleagues,

I keep thinking that the theme of absences is really fundamental for 
advancing the foundations of information science, but I am disappointed  by the 
way Terry has oriented the book. Both style and contents are inadequate for my 
taste. He continues to do what he did in previous papers, highly promising ones 
(as some parties discussed in past messages we had in the list); pointing to 
exciting new absential aspects but finally focusing in the physical ones 
(without much new enlightenment). 

In my opinion the most appropriate direction to advance an absential calculus 
of sorts is the language of SYMMETRY. Several parties in this list have already 
discussed the theme (me included). Symmetry breaking and symmetry restoration 
and related formal tools are the way to tackle the absential dimension in the 
genuine informational entities: cells, nervous systems, societies (and the 
vacuum!!). To reiterate that the fundamental point is not about computation, 
but about self-construction. Those absences refer to gaps,  functional 
voids in the self-construction cycles/processes of those entities --there 
might be 'natural computation' associated, eg, in cellular signaling systems, 
but finally the ruling aspect is about self-maintenance and reproduction. We 
could also enlist McLuhan in this critical position regarding the 
physicalist-computationalist interpretations, I think.

So, after a glance in the whole book, I am now in the detailed reading of 
Chapter 4, with mounting disappointment... Incomplete Book!! Deeper 
exploration needed!! 

best

---Pedro



Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic escribió: 

Dear Hector, This might be a good way, Terry Deacon presenting his 
book:http://fora.tv/2012/04/18/Incomplete_Nature_How_Mind_Emerged_From_Matter  
What I find fascinating with this book is the whole dynamical framework,from 
thermodynamics, to morphodynamics and teleodynamics.See also: 
http://www.american.edu/cas/economics/info-metrics/pdf/upload/Beavers-Oct-2011-presentation.pdf
 For sure, Deacon is not computationalist and his ideas of information and 
computation are pretty classical ones.But it does not matter in this context. 
For a computationalist all three kinds of dynamics are computational 
processes,and corresponding structures are informational structures. With best 
wishes,Gordana  -Original Message-From: fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es 
[mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] On Behalf Of Hector ZenilSent: den 27 
april 2012 22:40To: Pedro C. MarijuanCc: fis@listas.unizar.esSubject: Re: [Fis] 
POSTS ON TERRY' S BOOK Could someone summarize why Terrence Deacon's book is 
such a presumedbreakthrough judging by the buzz it has generated among 
FISenthusiasts? Thanks.  On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Pedro C. 
Marijuanmailto:pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es wrote:  Dear colleagues, Krassimir 
Markov's suggestion is excellent. Next year we could have aFIS conference in 
his place, centered in the exploration of the new infoavenue drafted by 
Terrence Deacon's book, and started by Stuart Kauffmanand others. Previously my 
suggestion is that we have a regulardiscussion session (like

Re: [Fis] POSTS ON TERRY' S BOOK - PRESENTED BY DEACON

2012-05-04 Thread Bruno Marchal


On 04 May 2012, at 11:35, Pedro C. Marijuan wrote:


Dear Gordana, Hector and colleagues,

I keep thinking that the theme of absences is really fundamental  
for advancing the foundations of information science, but I am  
disappointed  by the way Terry has oriented the book. Both style and  
contents are inadequate for my taste. He continues to do what he did  
in previous papers, highly promising ones (as some parties discussed  
in past messages we had in the list); pointing to exciting new  
absential aspects but finally focusing in the physical ones (without  
much new enlightenment).


In my opinion the most appropriate direction to advance an absential  
calculus of sorts is the language of SYMMETRY. Several parties in  
this list have already discussed the theme (me included). Symmetry  
breaking and symmetry restoration and related formal tools are the  
way to tackle the absential dimension in the genuine informational  
entities: cells, nervous systems, societies (and the vacuum!!). To  
reiterate that the fundamental point is not about computation, but  
about self-construction. Those absences refer to gaps,   
functional voids in the self-construction cycles/processes of those  
entities --there might be 'natural computation' associated, eg, in  
cellular signaling systems, but finally the ruling aspect is about  
self-maintenance and reproduction. We could also enlist McLuhan in  
this critical position regarding the physicalist-computationalist  
interpretations, I think.



I dare to insist that computationalism and physicalism are in complete  
opposition. If computationalism is correct then physicalism is  
provably false, and if physicalism is correct then computationalism is  
provably false.


The widespread confusion between materialism and mechanism (or  
physicalism and computationalism) arises from a reductionist view on  
the machines themselves.


-- Bruno Marchal





So, after a glance in the whole book, I am now in the detailed  
reading of Chapter 4, with mounting disappointment... Incomplete  
Book!! Deeper exploration needed!!


best

---Pedro



Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic escribió:


Dear Hector,

This might be a good way, Terry Deacon presenting his book:
http://fora.tv/2012/04/18/Incomplete_Nature_How_Mind_Emerged_From_Matter

What I find fascinating with this book is the whole dynamical  
framework,

from thermodynamics, to morphodynamics and teleodynamics.
See also: 
http://www.american.edu/cas/economics/info-metrics/pdf/upload/Beavers-Oct-2011-presentation.pdf

For sure, Deacon is not computationalist and his ideas of  
information and computation are pretty classical ones.
But it does not matter in this context. For a computationalist all  
three kinds of dynamics are computational processes,

and corresponding structures are informational structures.

With best wishes,
Gordana


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From: fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es 
] On Behalf Of Hector Zenil

Sent: den 27 april 2012 22:40
To: Pedro C. Marijuan
Cc: fis@listas.unizar.es
Subject: Re: [Fis] POSTS ON TERRY' S BOOK

Could someone summarize why Terrence Deacon's book is such a presumed
breakthrough judging by the buzz it has generated among FIS
enthusiasts?

Thanks.


On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Pedro C. Marijuan
pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es wrote:


Dear colleagues,

Krassimir Markov's suggestion is excellent. Next year we could  
have a
FIS conference in his place, centered in the exploration of the  
new info
avenue drafted by Terrence Deacon's book, and started by Stuart  
Kauffman

and others. Previously my suggestion is that we have a regular
discussion session (like the many ones had in this list). A couple  
of
voluntary chairs, and an opening text would be needed. Sure Bob  
Logan

could handle this (perhaps off list) and we would have a fresh
discussion session for the coming months.

Technical Note: the current messages are not entering in the list;  
the

filter is rejecting them as there are too many addresses together.
Please, send the fis address single, and all the others separated  
or as

as Cc. Otherwise I will have to enter them one by one.

best

---Pedro
(fis list coordination)

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Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group
Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud
Avda. Gómez Laguna, 25, Pl. 11ª
50009 Zaragoza, Spain
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[Fis] POSTS ON TERRY' S BOOK - PRESENTED BY DEACON

2012-05-02 Thread Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic
Dear Hector,

This might be a good way, Terry Deacon presenting his book:
http://fora.tv/2012/04/18/Incomplete_Nature_How_Mind_Emerged_From_Matter 

What I find fascinating with this book is the whole dynamical framework,
from thermodynamics, to morphodynamics and teleodynamics.
See also: 
http://www.american.edu/cas/economics/info-metrics/pdf/upload/Beavers-Oct-2011-presentation.pdf

For sure, Deacon is not computationalist and his ideas of information and 
computation are pretty classical ones.
But it does not matter in this context. For a computationalist all three kinds 
of dynamics are computational processes,
and corresponding structures are informational structures.

With best wishes,
Gordana


-Original Message-
From: fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] On 
Behalf Of Hector Zenil
Sent: den 27 april 2012 22:40
To: Pedro C. Marijuan
Cc: fis@listas.unizar.es
Subject: Re: [Fis] POSTS ON TERRY' S BOOK

Could someone summarize why Terrence Deacon's book is such a presumed
breakthrough judging by the buzz it has generated among FIS
enthusiasts?

Thanks.


On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Pedro C. Marijuan
pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es wrote:
 Dear colleagues,

 Krassimir Markov's suggestion is excellent. Next year we could have a
 FIS conference in his place, centered in the exploration of the new info
 avenue drafted by Terrence Deacon's book, and started by Stuart Kauffman
 and others. Previously my suggestion is that we have a regular
 discussion session (like the many ones had in this list). A couple of
 voluntary chairs, and an opening text would be needed. Sure Bob Logan
 could handle this (perhaps off list) and we would have a fresh
 discussion session for the coming months.

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Re: [Fis] POSTS ON TERRY' S BOOK

2012-04-30 Thread Bruno Marchal

Dear Colleagues,

On 27 Apr 2012, at 23:32, Steven Ericsson-Zenith wrote:


Dear Hector,

What, exactly, is your objection to it[Terrence Deacon's book]? It's  
anti-reductionism (that I would object to also) or it's claim that  
Turing computation is insufficient (to which I have no objection)?


Turing computation is provably insufficient to define the truth, and  
many other things, about ... the Turing machine's themselves. So the  
expression Turing computation is insufficient is ambiguous.


My very basic objection to Deacon's idea is that if we assume  
mechanism, i.e. the idea that the brain (or some generalization of it)  
is Turing emulable, then mind cannot emerge from matter, but matter  
has to emerge from the mind, itself emerging from number relations. So  
matter does not emerge from the human mind, but from all number's  
mind.


Number's mind can be defined by what number's do, relatively to a  
universal number.
A universal numbers is basically a relative code of a computer. If  
phi_i is a fixed enumeration of the partial recursive functions, a  
number u is universal if phi_u(x,y) = phi_x(y), with (x,y) some fixed  
bijection from NxN to N (N is the set of natural numbers). Note that  
an expression like ph_i(j) = k, can be entirely stated in elementary  
(first order) arithmetic. In particular the existence of universal  
number is a theorem of arithmetic. The generality of the notion of  
universal needs Church's thesis (or equivalent one by Turing or Post).


So, with the digital mechanist thesis, computer science and  
information sciences appears to be more fundamental than the physical  
sciences, and this in a constructive way: you can derive physics from  
(intensional) number theory.
This makes the computationalist theory scientific, that is empirically  
refutable.


The logic of the observable propositions has already been derived,  
(accepting comp + the classical theory of knowledge) and up to now, it  
fits rather well with quantum logic, although it is still an open  
problem if we can derive the existence of quantum computing in our  
neighborhood.


I have often heard of rumors that a flaw has been found in the  
derivation, but usually, when I succeeded to get such claims  
communicated, it contains elementary error in logic and/or computer  
science (if not crackpot statement like the assertion that the mind- 
body problem is solved, which I do no more try to debunk).


The result can be shocking for fundamentalist Aristotelians,  
obviously, who believe dogmatically in Aristotle metaphysical notion  
of *primary* matter, and have developed a tradition to put the mind- 
body problem (or the first-person/third person relation problem) under  
the rug.


On the contrary,  it should please, I think, to people open to the  
idea that reality might be more informational than substantial.


I have begun some explanations here, notably from posts by Loet and  
Robin, but it is a bit hard to do this, with the two posts per week  
rule, and I suggest, if interested, to read the paper I have referred  
too, and which can be downloaded from my url (see below). You can then  
ask any question on the everything list, or on the FOAR list, where  
its is currently explained, and where I take time to debunk or correct  
arguments, and with some luck I can ameliorate the exposition, or  
correct minor flaws (see below). So if you study the papers, and have  
any question, it might be simpler to address them there.
But if there is no flaw, it is necessarily matter and physics which  
emerges from the mind, and not the contrary. Like with Everett QM, the  
theory explains very well why it *looks* different. Its main weakness  
is that it leads to complex open problem in number theory and computer  
science.


Of course, all this does not prevent Terry's book to contain very  
interesting remarks and analyses, and my critics here bears only on  
his most fundamental preconception.


Sincere respects,

- Bruno Marchal

PS:
A short but complete paper:  
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/publications/SANE2004MARCHALAbstract.html
FOAR mailing list:  http://groups.google.com/group/foar?hl=en





Dr. Steven Ericsson-Zenith
Institute for Advanced Science  Engineering
http://iase.info







On Apr 27, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Hector Zenil wrote:


Could someone summarize why Terrence Deacon's book is such a presumed
breakthrough judging by the buzz it has generated among FIS
enthusiasts?

Thanks.


On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Pedro C. Marijuan
pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es wrote:

Dear colleagues,

Krassimir Markov's suggestion is excellent. Next year we could  
have a
FIS conference in his place, centered in the exploration of the  
new info
avenue drafted by Terrence Deacon's book, and started by Stuart  
Kauffman

and others. Previously my suggestion is that we have a regular
discussion session (like the many ones had in this list). A couple  
of
voluntary chairs, 

[Fis] POSTS ON TERRY' S BOOK

2012-04-28 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
Dear colleagues,

Krassimir Markov's suggestion is excellent. Next year we could have a 
FIS conference in his place, centered in the exploration of the new info 
avenue drafted by Terrence Deacon's book, and started by Stuart Kauffman 
and others. Previously my suggestion is that we have a regular 
discussion session (like the many ones had in this list). A couple of 
voluntary chairs, and an opening text would be needed. Sure Bob Logan 
could handle this (perhaps off list) and we would have a fresh 
discussion session for the coming months.

Technical Note: the current messages are not entering in the list; the 
filter is rejecting them as there are too many addresses together. 
Please, send the fis address single, and all the others separated or as 
as Cc. Otherwise I will have to enter them one by one.

best

---Pedro
(fis list coordination)

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Pedro C. Marijuán
Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group
Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud
Avda. Gómez Laguna, 25, Pl. 11ª
50009 Zaragoza, Spain
Telf: 34 976 71 3526 ( 6818) Fax: 34 976 71 5554
pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es
http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/
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