Re: [Fis] further comments: AAAS

>In another order of things, an officer of the AAAS (American Ass.
>Adv. of Science) contacted me some weeks ago, through Wolfgang
>intermediation. Seemingly, they are trying to organize an
>'Information Science' symposium and track for their annual meeting,
>next year in Seattle. Amazingly, they were already aware of FIS
>proposals, and they consider very promising the critical
>examination of 'information foundations' we are making. Let us hope
>that as the present ominous circumstances clear out, their project
>will survive and will get ahead...

That's my doing, through Dale Doucette. I hope I did well, because I
focused on the more technical and promising of our discussions as a
real attempt at reinventing science. Some recent trends to somehow
drag politics into the discussion, to conflate an examination of
science with some "crisis" or another in world events, and to assume
that better system science will make the world heavenly makes me
question my recommendation.

Really Pedro. Naturally there are lively discussions we can all have
about human justice and moral action, but it is a very slim
connection with the nature of information, even in the context of
self-organizing human societies unless you rely on a sophomoric gloss.

Best, Ted

-- 
Ted Goranson
Advanced Enterprise Research Office
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