Re: [Fis] THE FOURTH GREAT DOMAIN OF SCIENCE: INFORMATIONAL? - What is a discipline?

2015-05-26 Thread Ken Herold
Hi Bob, One of the classic studies: *The study of information: interdisciplinary messages* Editors:Fritz Machlup http://dl.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100466573coll=DLdl=ACMtrk=0cfid=677888792cftoken=53847757Una Mansfield

Re: [Fis] THE FOURTH GREAT DOMAIN OF SCIENCE: INFORMATIONAL?

2015-05-24 Thread Bob Logan
I believe Moises meant this email for Pedro and all of fis so I am copying you with my reply to Moises On 2015-05-24, at 7:17 AM, Moisés André Nisenbaum wrote: Hi, Pedro, Bob and FISers. It is interesting that the original post lead us to a variety of very important subjects. Thank you

Re: [Fis] THE FOURTH GREAT DOMAIN OF SCIENCE: INFORMATIONAL? - What is a discipline?

2015-05-23 Thread Stanley N Salthe
Bob-- As one who has strayed from the Darwinian discipline of evolutionary biology (my erstwhile field), I can say that I have 'paid the price'. But I have had a wonderful time exploring wherever my thinking has gone. I think the discipline has in a sense guided me anyway, as turning away from it

[Fis] THE FOURTH GREAT DOMAIN OF SCIENCE: INFORMATIONAL? - What is a discipline?

2015-05-23 Thread Bob Logan
Dear Colleagues - I have been reading the posts in this thread and enjoying the conversation. I started playing with the notion of discipline and came up with these undisciplined playful thoughts which I believe provide an interesting or at least an alternative perspective on the notion of a

Re: [Fis] THE FOURTH GREAT DOMAIN OF SCIENCE: INFORMATIONAL?

2015-05-20 Thread Moisés André Nisenbaum
Physics students in Brazil do not read much about philosophy. They should read more :-). I remember I thought that the physical universe was entirely explained by mathematics. I found out later, for example, a huge number of mathematically possible universes. Then, I was then presented to the

[Fis] THE FOURTH GREAT DOMAIN OF SCIENCE: INFORMATIONAL?

2015-05-15 Thread Pedro C. Marijuan
*A Dialog on the Informational as the 4th Great Domain of Science* *Moisés André Nisenbaum Ken Herold* */PART 1: /**/Informational as the 4th Great Domain of Science/* (Moisés André Nisenbaum) To classify is human (BOWKER STAR 2000). The organization of scientific knowledge is concern of