RE: Advanced Draft

From: Allan Combs <[email protected]>
Date: Wed 12 Dec 2001 - 17:33:56 CET

I'M OK WITH EITHER TITLE, BUT WOULD LIKE TO STRESS BASIC QUESTIONS ABOUT THE
NATURE OF INFORMATION, OR INFORMATIONS (IF THERE IS MORE THAN ONE CATEGORY
COVERED BY THE WORD).

--ALLAN

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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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