Dear FISers: I would like to draw attention to this conference (2014 IEEE Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century, http://21stcenturywiener.org/) and CfP you may be interested in: _____
Call for Papers – Instructions to Authors and Students ( http://21stcenturywiener.org/call-for-papers-instructions-to-authors-and-students/ ) We invite you to the 2014 IEEE Conference on Norbert Wiener in the 21st Century. The conference will focus on Wiener’s work: past, present and future. With the theme Reintroducing Norbert Wiener, the conference will include: Examination of the subsequent development and importance of his research, including multi-disciplinary panels of experts examining specific questions related to his fields. A current look at the social impact and ethical challenges of technology that he foresaw Reminiscences of his life from people who knew him personally An important part of the conference will be sessions of research papers on contemporary work related to Wiener’s pioneering contributions. These will be selected from this open call for papers (CFP). Please submit papers at: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/NW21C2014/Default.aspx You can download the full Call For Papers in http://21stcenturywiener.org/call-for-papers-instructions-to-authors-and-students/ by selecting a desired language: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), English, Russian, Spanish 2013/11/14 <fis-requ...@listas.unizar.es> > Send fis mailing list submissions to > fis@listas.unizar.es > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > fis-requ...@listas.unizar.es > > You can reach the person managing the list at > fis-ow...@listas.unizar.es > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of fis digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: social exchanges (Bruno Marchal) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 22:08:30 +0100 > From: Bruno Marchal <marc...@ulb.ac.be> > Subject: Re: [Fis] social exchanges > To: Raquel del Moral <rdelmoral.i...@aragon.es>, fis Science > <fis@listas.unizar.es> > Message-ID: <4f2bbaea-d501-456c-a7e9-cd35a0909...@ulb.ac.be> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes > > > On 12 Nov 2013, at 17:03, Raquel del Moral wrote: > > > Dear FIS colleagues, > > > > Thanks for the comments received (basically Pedro and Bi Lin!). I am > > not > > much conversant today about cellular or bacterial communication (sorry > > Bruno...), as I try to discuss on person to person communication. > > > Oh! > > What makes you sure that a bacteria is not already supporting some > little person? > > I guess you try to discuss specifically communication on *human* > person to *human* person. > It is a very interesting subject. Very complex too. It is not my field > of expertise. > > It might benefit, or not, today or tomorrow, with or without the > computationalist assumption, from the study of the "communication" > between numbers, or finite entities, in arithmetic. > > The field is very vast, I don't want to push anyone in that direction. > Just that for numbers, and bacteria (and amoeba) we have some > explanations why they dream and communicate. Bin asked about the > necessity of conversation. This might throw light on the humans too, > perhaps. > > > > > > > About the empirical data of my research, of interest for Bi Lin, we > > published a poster in AAAS Meeting 2012. I will upload that poster and > > some new data once the FIS website is refurbished. The basic data are > > not very different from a paper in Science ("Are women really more > > talkative than men?" Science 2007, vol. 317, pp:82), although we are > > looking from a wider angle, concretely the correlation with Mental > > Health. The gender differences are very intriguing! > > I think computationalism can say something on this. It is related to > the first and third person points of view. > I really don't want take your precious time. It is theoretical, and > concerns ideally correct self-referential machines. It is computer > sciences. > > Best wishes in your projects, > > Bruno > > > > > > > For the new comers in the list, there is an archive with all the > > messages exchanged: > > https://webmail.unizar.es/pipermail/fis/ > > Interested parties may look for the current discussion session, which > > started on 27/09/2013. > > > > Best, > > Raquel > > > > > > El 12/11/2013 13:31, Bruno Marchal escribió: > >> Dear Bi, > >> > >> On 12 Nov 2013, at 09:55, bilin1001 wrote: > >> > >> > >>> Dear Raquel, > >>> > >>> I am also a PhD student, in Information Philosophy. My Thesis deals > >>> with > >>> "Mutual Meaning Space" in social exchanges (interpersonal > >>> communication). > >>> I am very interested in your work on the necessity of conversation: > >>> do > >>> you have empirical data about that? > >>> > >> Sex, which can be seen as molecular conversation, is an empirical > >> data > >> for the necessity of conversation, taken as exchange of information > >> (DNA). Bacteria do it, either directly, or through viruses (the "GSM" > >> of the bacterium). Its main role is in the sped up of creating > >> theories (the genome), and being able to refute them as much quickly > >> (selection). > >> Is there a first person notion associated with it? Probably. Hard to > >> know. > >> > >> Best wishes, > >> > >> Bruno > >> > >> > >> > >> http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> fis mailing list > >> fis@listas.unizar.es > >> https://webmail.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Raquel del Moral > > Grupo de Bioinformacion / Bioinformation Group > > > > Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud > > Avda. 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