[Fis] "The Travellers"

[Pedro C. Marijuan]

Dear FIS colleagues,

Regarding the theme of physical information raised by Igor and Joseph, 
the main problematic aspect of information (meaning) is missing there. 
One can imagine that as two physical systems interact, each one may be 
metaphorically attributed with meaning respect the changes experimented. 
But it is an empty attribution that does not bring any further 
interesting aspect. Conversely we see "real" elaboration of meaning in 
the cellular structures of life, particularly in brains, and we see in 
our societies how scientific, technological, and economic advancements 
are bringing together more and more flows of information around (social 
complexity and information completely dovetail, and that's a very 
important feature). Together with physical information (information 
theory, logics, symmetry, etc.) each one of those realms has something 
important to tell us regarding the unifying perspective necessary to 
make sense of the different approaches to information: we have to 
carefully listen to all of them. Thus, at the time being, the mission of 
information science --or FIS at least-- would remind "The Travellers", 
those people in the UK and Ireland, pretendedly "gypsies", who live a 
nomadic life camping from site to site...  It may look unfortunate for 
the disciplinarily specialized parties, but  we cannot settle any 
permanent info camp --seemingly for quite a long time.

best --Pedro

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Pedro C. Marijuán
Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group
Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud
Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Aragón (CIBA)
Avda. San Juan Bosco, 13, planta X
50009 Zaragoza, Spain
Tfno. +34 976 71 3526 (& 6818)
pcmarijuan.iacs at aragon.es
http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/
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