Re: Advanced Draft

Pedro: Is the week of May 6-10 also acceptable for the FIS conference?
Barry

At 12:39 11.12.01 +0100, you wrote:
>Dear colleagues,
>
>Here there are some further preparations for the coming e-conf on the 2nd
of May 2002. We already have the basic ingredients to start work on the web
pages & email announcement. But the coin is in the air yet about the title
(perfect draw in supports between the shorter one penned below, and the
longuish: THE NATURE OF INFORMATION: CONCEPTIONS, MISCONCEPTIONS, AND
PARADOXES). So, there might be small changes yet on this preliminary info
before putting it into the web. Any suggestion (particularly about
shortening the list of topics) will be welcome.
>Many thanks to a number of people (Ted, James, Koichiro, Jim, Werner,
John, Bob, etc.) who have contributed with ideas and opinions to the text &
topics of this preliminary presentation--actually it sort of continues the
discussion started by Jerry and Allan a few days ago... bests --Pedro
>
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>
> ON INFORMATION: ITS NATURE, ITS PARADOXES
>
>Inconsistencies and paradoxes in the conceptualization of information can
>be found throughout numerous fields of natural, social and computer sciences.
>Rather than strictly focusing on the quest for a unifying
>conceptualization, this FIS (Foundations of Information Science)
>e-conference also explores the "reverse" approach: what information is not.
>Thus, the conference aims to introduce new categories
>and unifying theories, as well as to critically analyze conceptual
>stumbling-blocks that may be acting as inefficient surrogates in strategic
>areas of information-related disciplines. Given the contemporay social
>context of booming information technologies and widespread proclamations
of the
>"information society", reassessing the very status of information within
>the system of the sciences becomes a timely enterprise.
>
>
> TOPICS
>
>Conceptions & misconceptions of information in communication
theory,machine intelligence, economic and technological evolution,
information society, agency, consciousness, brain processing, cellular
signalling, organismic integration, Darwinian evolution, bioinformatics,
biosemiotics, biological purpose, molecular similarity, physics of
information, self-organization, complexity and nonlinear science, entropy,
quantum interpretations, symmetry.
>
>
>SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD
>
>R. Artiguiani, B. Banathy, J. Barham, S. Brier, J. Chandler, J. Collier,
A. Combs, G. Darvas, W. Ebeling, P. Erdi, T. Goranson, W. Hofkirchner, A.
Igamberdiev, R. Kampfner, K. Matsuno, R. Paton, T. Poeschen, I.
Rojdestvenski, E. Taborsky
>
>SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIAT
>P.C. Mariju�n
>
>TECHNICAL SECRETARIAT
>S.K. Lin
>B. Hardy
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Received on Tue Dec 11 15:37:35 2001