[Fis] Wake up call
Pedro C. Marijuan
pcmarijuan.iacs at aragon.es
Tue May 11 21:40:18 CEST 2021
Dear FISers,
You will remember in those ancient times of travels and hotels (so
distant now!) the request in the front desk for a wake up call... we
should be on time for the presentations or for the shuttle to the airport.
In these strange times of ours, of unrelenting isolation, every month
our stamina reserves are little by little depleted, at least for those
not directly involved in the duties of academic life or institutional
research. How a wake up call might be arranged for those of us at the
brisk of depression?
In June 15th is the deadline for participating in the IS4SI 2021
conference. See https://summit-2021.is4si.org/
_I think we should massively participate._ Let us post our tentative
abstracts in the list, as Howard did, and let us have preliminary
discussions.
Personally, I will send an abstract to one of the sessions (still
undecided which one could be fitting) about
THE PARADIGM OF NATURAL INTELLIGENCE
It will be argued that intelligence is a universal phenomenon present in
all forms of life. It requires a new form of relationship with the
environment, implying not only openness to energy flows but to
information flows as well. External information processing, coupled with
internal information processing, may produce an adaptive life cycle that
manifests (natural) intelligence, produces meaning, and realizes fitness
value. Out from the basic prokaryotic conformation, the unit of natural
intelligence, it may develop hierarchically, via multicellularity, and
particularly with the evolution of nervous systems. Then, natural
intelligence fully develops up to the point, in the human case, of
exhibiting pieces of artificial intelligence that mimic some of the
basic properties of the former. It will be finally argued that without a
proper understanding of natural intelligence, the scientific foundations
of artificial intelligence will be shaky--notwithstanding the
technological grandeur it is effectively achieving. But unbridled,
half-understood technologies are not a panacea for societies. Often the
opposite.
Best regards to all!
--Pedro
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Pedro C. Marijuán
Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group
pcmarijuan.iacs at aragon.es
http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/
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