Please correct the typing error n --> l replace T. Poeschen by T. Poeschel

From: Prof.Dr. Werner Ebeling <[email protected]>
Date: Wed 12 Dec 2001 - 10:38:32 CET

On Tuesday 11 Dec 2001 5:05 pm, you wrote:
> 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 Wed Dec 12 10:38:59 2001

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