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<DIV>Dear Pedro and FIS Colleagues,</DIV>
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<DIV>I agree that now it is not good approach to try to have common "general
info doctrine" but it is important to define personal understanding when one is
discussing some problems connecting the "information". I other case, there is no
common sense in the written sentences.</DIV>
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<DIV>About Vienna and Varna conferences - they are quite different and no
conflicting.</DIV>
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<DIV>FIS and ISIS are specialized societies only to foundations of information
sciences.</DIV>
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<DIV>ITHEA is more large society than FIS - about 3000 members - and covers all
fields of informatics ( see <A href="http://www.ithea.org">www.ithea.org</A>
)</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Because of this, I stay on the position that Vienna conference
is the right place for FIS meeting next year.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Unfortunately, the Vienna conference will be in the heavy time
for me due to preparing Varna conference and it is really impossible for me to
take part.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4>Friendly regards</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4>Krassimir</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=4><A href="mailto:president@ithea.org">president@ithea.org</A>
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<DIV>-----Original Message----- </DIV>
<DIV>From: Pedro C. Marijuan </DIV>
<DIV>Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 1:14 PM </DIV>
<DIV>To: fis@listas.unizar.es </DIV>
<DIV>Subject: Re: [Fis] FIS in Varna </DIV>
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<DIV>Dear FISers,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Just a few brief points on the many themes open.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Pridi's morphogenesis: The new computer fabrication techs based on 3D
</DIV>
<DIV>printers are opening a new realm of artificial morphogenesis. We are </DIV>
<DIV>achieving, finally, something very similar to the intususpection growth
</DIV>
<DIV>of life, which is based on cellular signaling strategies coupled to </DIV>
<DIV>force fields and electrical fields. This signaling involvement, </DIV>
<DIV>basically in the control of the cellular life-cycle, is very interesting
</DIV>
<DIV>to me and have done some work . We could have an special section about
</DIV>
<DIV>that, maybe in a "New Biology" session next year in Varna, and maybe </DIV>
<DIV>also in Vienna. Also with a European Projects and Innovation transfer
</DIV>
<DIV>session.</DIV>
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<DIV>Perennial information question: given the open-ended characteristic of
</DIV>
<DIV>information and the proliferation of hundreds of "definitions", </DIV>
<DIV>advocating for a consensus is the most prudent strategy. Also it is </DIV>
<DIV>needed a new way of thinking consolidating different approaches to
</DIV>
<DIV>"informational entities" from a naturalistic and empirical perspective.
</DIV>
<DIV>The prejudice of looking for a general info doctrine out from physical
</DIV>
<DIV>fields, or from classical info theory, or from logics, keeps us into our
</DIV>
<DIV>beloved "cul de sac".</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Information flow: in the same way that understanding the "energy flow"
</DIV>
<DIV>in the biosphere, in the 50's and 60's (eg, Morowitz, Margalef) changed
</DIV>
<DIV>quite a bit the bioenergetic panorama, establishing the "laws" of the
</DIV>
<DIV>"information flow" could do the same effect in information science </DIV>
<DIV>today; not only in biology, think also in enterprises, cities, </DIV>
<DIV>countries, etc. I already posted on new urban science, how it relies on
</DIV>
<DIV>information flows (legitimately!). Quite a panoply of "informational </DIV>
<DIV>entities" are based in communication and self-production intertwining of
</DIV>
<DIV>flows. Communication is held for the sake of self-production.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Great Domains of Science: Information Science(s) constitute with the </DIV>
<DIV>Social, the Biological, and the Physical the four great domains of </DIV>
<DIV>contemporary science (echoing Rosenbloom, modified)--that should be our
</DIV>
<DIV>working perspective. Not just that we are enlarging classical Library
</DIV>
<DIV>Science.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Varna's, Vienna's ... Both are we are quite complementary. Fortunately
</DIV>
<DIV>we are counting with two channels for our face-to-face communication.
</DIV>
<DIV>One devoted to the most general, and the other for the link with </DIV>
<DIV>research & technical fields. Next week I will make some comments on
</DIV>
<DIV>Wolfgang's text, as I think it needs a little bit more of scientific </DIV>
<DIV>contents (say related to info science & natural science) in order to
</DIV>
<DIV>attract active researchers in these fields.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>best greetings</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>--Pedro</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>-- </DIV>
<DIV>-------------------------------------------------</DIV>
<DIV>Pedro C. Marijuán</DIV>
<DIV>Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group</DIV>
<DIV>Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud</DIV>
<DIV>Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Aragón (CIBA)</DIV>
<DIV>Avda. San Juan Bosco, 13, planta X</DIV>
<DIV>50009 Zaragoza, Spain</DIV>
<DIV>Tfno. +34 976 71 3526 (& 6818)</DIV>
<DIV>pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es</DIV>
<DIV>http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/</DIV>
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