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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">Dear FIS Colleagues,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">The new discussion session "Phenomenology,
Life, and Information Science" is the interactive continuation of the
recently published</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="DE" style="font-family:Arial"><a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00796107/119/3"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:rgb(16,60,192)">2015 JPBMB Special
Issue on Integral Biomathics: Life Sciences, Mathematics and Phenomenological
Philosophy</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">(with
free access to all articles, incl. those of the following 5 presenters until
July 19th, 2016).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">The
announcement is here: <a href="http://fis.sciforum.net/fis-discussion-sessions/">http://fis.sciforum.net/fis-discussion-sessions/</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">As Pedro already mentioned, it
is planned to continue for about three months (ending around May 30th), with
2-3 weeks devoted to each theses. Most of the authors of this volume and from a
few related projects are joining the FIS list for this series of discussions in
the following weeks.</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">All participants are encouraged to provide their
feedback to the presenters. Please take care to make thorough and concise statements
when commenting and inquiring about details of the authors’ theses, while
limiting to the FIS customary <u>two messages per week</u>. Depending on the
intensity of the exchange traffic a limit of one message per week per user may
be established. The responses of the presenters and the moderators are the only
exceptions according to the FIS rules. For those who are new in the FIS
community I strongly recommend to explore the web site </span><span lang="DE" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://fis.sciforum.net"><span lang="EN-US">http://fis.sciforum.net</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial"> before the discussion. </span><div><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px"><br></span></font></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">Here is again the list of
contributors for the particular fields:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">- Maxine Sheets-Johnstone:
from Biology</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">- Louis H. Kauffman: from
Mathematics</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">- Soeren Brier: from
Bio/Cybersemiotics</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">- Alex Hankey: from Physics</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">- Plamen L. Simeonov: with a
challenging subject in integrative medicine<br>
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</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">I am going to moderate the
discussions along with Pedro. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">We will start now with <b>Maxine Sheets-Johnstone</b>’s theme “<b><u>Phenomenology and Evolutionary Biology</u></b>”.
</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">She is an
interdisciplinary scholar affiliated with the Department of Philosophy at the
University of Oregon where she taught periodically in the 1990s and where she
now holds an ongoing Courtesy Professor appointment. She has a B.A. in French
and Comparative Literature, an M.A. in Dance, a Ph.D. in Dance and Philosophy,
and an incomplete second doctorate in Evolutionary Biology.</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family:Arial"> </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Maxine began her career as a
choreographer/dancer, professor of dance/dance scholar. She has published near
80 articles in humanities, science, and art journals. Her book publications
include The Phenomenology of Dance; Illuminating Dance:</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family:Arial"> </span><span lang="DE" style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Philosophical Explorations; the “roots” trilogy: The Roots of
Thinking, The Roots of Power: Animate Form and Gendered Bodies, and The Roots
of Morality; Giving the Body Its Due; The Primacy of Movement; The Corporeal
Turn: An Interdisciplinary Reader; Putting Movement Into Your Life; A
Beyond Fitness Primer, and (forthcoming 2016) Insides and Outsides:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Animate Nature. She was awarded a
Distinguished Fellowship at the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham
University, UK, in 2007 for her continuing research on xenophobia, an Alumni
Achievement Award by the School of Education, University of Wisconsin in 2011,
and was honored with a Scholar’s Session by the Society of Phenomenology and
Existential Philosophy in 2012.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial;color:red"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">Maxine, you have the word.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:Arial">@All: Enjoy your discussion.</span></p>
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Best regards</span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Arial">Plamen <br>
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</span><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif">__ ___ ___<br><br>Dr. Plamen L. Simeonov <br>mobile: +49.17.37.81.63.37</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="georgia, serif">URLs: <a href="http://www.simeio.org" target="_blank">www.simeio.org</a> / </font><a href="http://lnkd.in/aqn39k" target="_blank"><font face="georgia, serif">LinkedIn</font></a><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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