Abstract (draft) for Session at INSC 2003

>Dear colleagues,
> The "International Nonlinear Sciences Conference Research and
>Applications in the Life Sciences 2003" will take place on February
>7th-9th, 2003 in Vienna (keynote speakers: Hermann Haken, Jack
>Cohen, Tönu Puu).
> For details on the conference see
><http://insc2003.societyforchaostheory.org/>http://insc2003.societyforchaostheory.org/
>and
><http://insc2003.societyforchaostheory.org/CFP.htm#address>http://insc2003.societyforchaostheory.org/CFP.htm#address
> There will be a session on "Foundations of Self-Organisation"
>at the conference (see the abstract that Wolfgang Hofkirchner and I
>submitted below). If someone wants to participate in it, please send
>me an abstract of a contribution per e-mail until Friday, October
>18th containing: title, author, affiliation (address), abstract (250
>word limit), contact information, four keywords.
> I will submit the abstracts I receive altogether.
> If you know other people who would like to join, please
>forward them this email.
> Please let me know if you are interested.
>Christian Fuchs

Details on the Session:
Title: Foundations of Self-Organisation

>Description: Since the sixties and the seventies, the disciplines of
>science have been increasingly focussing on self-organisation and
>complexity studies. Although interdisciplinarity is one of the main
>characteristics of self-organisation theory, the approaches are
>rather scattered and a unified theory of self-organisation remains
>to be established. The aim of this session is to explore foundations
>of such a yet-to-be-developed unification.
>Topics to be covered in this session include:
>*the exploration of the philosophical relationship of self-organisation
>theory and classical, modern and postmodern philosophy
>*the relationship of information and self-organisation
>*differences and similarities between physical, biological and
>social self-organisation
>_________________________________________
>Christian Fuchs
>Institute for Design and Technology Assessment

It is certainly very short time to prepare something properly,
however I might be willing to participate expressing something about
the following tentative assumption (I still must develop it):

Human gregariousness seems to motivate every mind to invite and even
encourage other minds to organize together anything that suddenly
seems to become the common concern of all those who recognize the
need of working together for the betterment of their common concern.

So far not so good because from time to time every human recognizes
that other humans are deeply concerned in doing or attaining
something that contradicts what he or she and his and her immediate
colleagues have determined as their main interest even as if it were
their reason for being alive.

The whole historical trajectory of humankind even before the so
called civilizing processes started to be conceived and organized has
been and continue being until today a sanguinary confrontation among
gregarious groups of people trying to disorganize what other
gregarious groups are trying to achieve

Most human actions can be considered self-organized by one or another
group of people

Today in the year 2002 humankind is facing the worst crisis ever
faced because many groups are trying to organize themselves their
capabilities in order to use unilaterally the capabilities of other
groups and also in order to destroy the achievements of other
self-organized groups and even to annihilate or massacre them.

However it can be assumed that there is still some hope for humans to
realize that they may cooperate through increasingly well
comprehended Weltanschauung Systems to identify how to make
complementary their very diverse appraisals, after recognizing that
human intelligence may play a sensible role on Earth learning
continuously to develop the perspectivism as a sensible
epistemological tool.

The development of self-organizing capabilities in human minds, after
their successful emergence, must bear in mind that human spontaneity,
based on simple common sense, is causing the human species to become
an endangered one

It is only a first draft for October 18th. 2002

Title:
Weltanschauungen and perspectivism derived from Bertalanffy's
thinking may help humans to self-organize their role on Earth

Name:
elohimjl

Address:
Schlossgasse 6/16, A3512 Mautern a. d. Donau. Tel 43 (0)2732 75096

Keywords:
gregariousness, contradictory, Weltanschauungen, perspectivism

-- 
elohimjl