[Fis] Concluding the Session on the Great Domains

[Pedro C. Marijuan]

Dear FIS Colleagues,

Current discussants are kindly asked to make a pause on the ongoing 
lateral exchanges, and leave attentional room for the Colophon of the 
Session that Moises and Ken are going to post these very days.

It is important that we keep a discussion balance "between the four 
domains themselves", as some of our informational challenges are clearly 
situated beyond the it/bit or the thermodynamic arguments: (to name but 
a few concerns) in the way that the biological should participate in the 
non-objective aspects of information; in the individual's production of 
adaptive behavior out from the inner/outer circulating information, as 
well as in the coordination of the resulting action within the 
complexity of social domains (all the different information flows around 
that  are so important and so exacerbated in contemporary societies). 
The advantage of the current slogans on the "information society" could 
be profited if we align properly new, consisting views in some of these 
(or other) fundamental aspects.

One of the important themes to be aligned concerns the vision of the 
overall system of knowledge, the multitude close to 10,000 
scientific-technological disciplines around. It is the very theme that 
Ken and Moises started two months ago and that all the exciting 
discussions post-Vienna have relatively left in the background. A basic 
constraint we have said nothing about it yet concerns the cognizing 
limitations of the individual, how they force the disciplinary diaspora, 
and how that "Babelization" process has to be somehow balanced by 
multiple communication and info flows among scientific communities, far 
more difficult as the sheer number and the inner complexity increase. It 
is one of the reasons for producing coherent views on the whole 
enterprise and the grouping of great domains that Rosenbloom initially 
proposed... At least it will help to make better sense on the 
combinatory game collectively played by all of us.

All the best--Pedro

PS. In a few days I will post the tentative discussion calendar for next 
months. Remember that all of you are invited to propose a short -or 
regular- discussion session about the info sci. theme of your own interest.

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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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