Re: fis2002

dear werner, yes i have to agree with you.
i already mentionned this point with wolfgang hofkirchner
best wishes
norbert fenzl

> minutiae & technicalities
>
> Remarks on the preparation of our conference fis2002
>
> Dear Pedro, dear All,
>
> preparing our contributions to the conference FIS 2002 we looked again at
> the big material of the fis-discussion REALISM and INFORMATIONon the WEB
> (sorry that we did not participate actively in this discussion, but we
> studied most of the contributions). Frankly speaking we are not so happy
> about the tendency of some of the participants to escape into a purely
> philosophical discussion. We remember a discussion with our friend the
late
> Michael Conrad about the first period of fis-discussions about 5 years ago
> in which he still actively participated (some of his views we find in the
> good book 'The Quest on a Unified Theory of Information' edited by
Wolfgang
> Hofkirchner). Michael said after this first round of fis that close
> connections to problems of the natural sciences are very important for
> fis-discussions and that fis should not loose the contact to our concrete
> problems on earth. Being working also in natural sciences we share
Michaels
> opinion.
> What we would propose is that the contributions to the planned conference
> fis2002 are a good mixture between principal questions and such
> applications which are related to conceptual questions. We hope that there
> will be interesting contributions in this direction.
>
>
> Werner Ebeling & Thorsten Poeschel from Berlin
>
>
>
Received on Fri Feb 15 15:55:50 2002