Vedr.: Advanced Draft

From: S�ren Brier <[email protected]>
Date: Thu 13 Dec 2001 - 20:20:33 CET

Dear Pedro

Sorry to be so late in response. I think you got around the most and that there have been some fine adjusting comments. You might consider adding concepts like second order cybernetics, autopoiesis theory, Cybersemiotics and socio-cybernetics, and topics like: the relation between information, communication and meaning in humans, animals, machine and inanimate nature. The concept of Information and various views of knowledge and cognition. Conditions for information theory /science to work as a transdisciplinary theory of self-organization, cognition and communication.

Regards

S�ren Brier

http://www.flec.kvl.dk/personalprofile.asp?id=sbr&p=engelsk

Ed. of Cybernetics & Human Knowing

http://www.imprint-academic.com/C&HK

>>> marijuan@posta.unizar.es 11-12-01 12:39 >>>
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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