[Fis] Concluding the Session on the Great Domains - brief analysis

[Moisés André Nisenbaum]

Dear FIS Colleagues,

First, I want to thank Pedro and everyone the opportunity to introduce,
participate and observe the development of debate “THE FOURTH GREAT DOMAIN
OF SCIENCE: INFORMATIONAL?”

 I spent the last days documenting the posts related to this discussion. On
this basis, I will present some numbers and comments about these rich
discussions.


1) The debate has 114 posts in 26 subjects. The subjects were grouped by
similarity and the count is shown in the table below.


  Subject  # of posts

 THE FOURTH GREAT DOMAIN OF SCIENCE: INFORMATIONAL?

26

 It From Bit

26

 Philosophy, Computing, and Information - apologies!

16

 It-from-Bit and information interpretation of QM

12

 FIS newcomer

11

 What are "information" and "science"?

7

 Krassimir's Notes . . .

6

 QM and information

2

 We have different “fen clubs” depending of sympathy to one or other
definition of information

2

 Ada Lovelace inspires a question: why are so few women in FIS list?

2

 Concluding the Session on the Great Domains

1

 Thinking Out Loud – a “meaning (-ful/less) continuum”

1

 information as physical entity

1

 Garfield 1955 - organizing metadata for scientific literature

1

*Totals*

114



Of course, the subject of debate had the highest number of posts. The topic
"It from bit", brought by Ken through a video, philosophical discussions
about information was also of great interest.



2) 31 people participated in the debate. The number of each author posts
and the number of times each one have been cited are in the table below:
  Post authors and cited

Author

Cited

John Collier <collierj at ukzn.ac.za>

11

15

Loet Leydesdorff <loet at leydesdorff.net>

9

11

Marcus Abundis <55mrcs at gmail.com>

9

10

Joseph Brenner <joe.brenner at bluewin.ch>

8

8

Ken Herold <kherold at hamilton.edu>

7

5

Pedro C. Marijuan <pcmarijuan.iacs at aragon.es>

7

11

Francesco Rizzo <13francesco.rizzo at gmail.com>

6

2

Krassimir Markov <markov at foibg.com>

5

6

Moisés André Nisenbaum <moises.nisenbaum at ifrj.edu.br>

5

8

Stanley N Salthe <ssalthe at binghamton.edu>

5

4

Steven Ericsson-Zenith <steven at iase.us>

5

2

Xueshan Yan <yxs at pku.edu.cn>

4

1

Andrei Khrennikov <andrei.khrennikov at lnu.se>

3

2

Emanuel Diamant <emanl.245 at gmail.com>

3

4

Koichiro Matsuno <cxq02365 at nifty.com>

3

5

Robert K. Logan <logan at physics.utoronto.ca>

3

4

Bruno Marchal <marchal at ulb.ac.be>

2

2

Dai Griffiths <dai.griffiths.1 at gmail.com>

2

1

Howard Bloom <HowlBloom at aol.com>

2

3

Jeremy Sherman <mindreadersdictionary at gmail.com>

2

1

Jerry LR Chandler <Jerry LR Chandler_lr_chandler at me.com>

2

1

Rafael Capurro <rafael at capurro.de>

2

6

Robert E. Ulanowicz <ulan at umces.edu>

2

1

Srinandan Dasmahapatra <sd at ecs.soton.ac.uk>

2

2

Terrence W. DEACON <deacon at berkeley.edu>

2

2

Dino Buzzetti <dino.buzzetti at gmail.com>

1

2

Günther Witzany <witzany at sbg.at>

1

0

Søren Brier <sb.ibc at cbs.dk>

1

0

Søren <sb.ibc at cbs.dk>

0

1

witzany <witzany at sbg.at>

0

2

*Totals*

114

122



The posts were very interesting. Despite the limitation of two messages per
week, most of the participants contributed significantly. I believe that
was many private messages, which unfortunately I did not have how to
analyze. I had the opportunity to exchange a few private messages with
Pedro, Ken, Bob, Capurro, Jhon, Loet and Joseph, and all was precious,
thank you!

3) I also made a qualitative analysis of the posts that I will not bring
here because it is very extensive. In particular, the group brought several
topics from physics. This physical <---> information association is of
great interest to my research (I study interdisciplinarity between physics
and information science).



If anyone is interested in the raw data this little analysis, just ask me.



Thank you very much,



Um abraço for all!



Moisés


-- 
Moisés André Nisenbaum
Doutorando IBICT/UFRJ. Professor. Msc.
Instituto Federal do Rio de Janeiro - IFRJ
Campus Maracanã
moises.nisenbaum at ifrj.edu.br
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