Suggestion for the coming e-conf on the 2nd of May 2002

Title: INFORMATION, what for?

Topics: For grasping where we (humans) are
        For learning where we might go
        For searching how we may evolve
        For making consistent our concerns
        For helping us to humanely behave
        For comprehending what our homosphere, biosphere and ecosphere are

It is only a first trial elohimjl

ps The topics were derived from an intended mapping of the previously suggested
        The title intend to be the synthesis of the topics derived

TOPICS

Darwinian evolution,
bioinformatics,
biosemiotics,
biological purpose,
machine intelligence,

self-organization,
consciousness,
brain processing,

information society,
economic and technological evolution,

cellular signalling,
organismic integration,
entropy,

conceptions & misconceptions of information in communication theory,
physics of information,
quantum interpretations,
molecular similarity,
agency,
symmetry,
complexity and nonlinear science,

>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
> =====================================================
> 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.

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
Received on Tue Dec 11 17:06:08 2001