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<p>Dear FISers,</p>
<p>quite many things have been said these days about our "family ghosts".
Everyone has a different opinion on the under-information matter,
and maybe that's healthy. Personally I have not changed very much
the vision with which FIS was started many years ago. See in the
descriptive text (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://fis.sciforum.net/about-fis/">http://fis.sciforum.net/about-fis/</a>): <span
style="color: #808080">"...At FIS, rather than the discussion of
a single particularized concept, information becomes the
intellectual adventure of developing a ‘vertical’ or
‘transdisciplinary’ science connecting the different threads and
scales of informational processes, which demands both a <em>unifying</em>
and a <em>multi-perspective</em> approach..."</span></p>
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<p>With time my impression, already expressed in this list, is that
there is a fundamental hiatus in our conceptions around biological
information so that a meaningful connection with the several infos
of the physical realm, and the miscellany of humanities can not be
worked out. In a couple of recent discussions I was close to see
with more clarity the problem, but again I feel blurred. It does
not mean at all that I have an abandonment attitude. Conversely I
think we are getting closer and closer. The fundamental fact of
our generation is the stupendous new panorama that computers and
the new technologies have opened on life, from the bioinformatics
to the neurodynamics and the "topodynamics". To say something more
concrete the big problem I see is how to enter the LIFE CYCLE as
the generalized source and sink of the information flows.</p>
<p>And then the Planckian Information theme presented by our new
colleague Sung looks quite intriguing. Why most of these
information flows and energy flows exchanges are caught under that
covering law? Anecdotally we (my research minigroup) are working
in the sociotype, understood as the social communication
structures surrounding the person. What is the average number of
friends and acquaintances that we can maintain meaninfully?
Probably you have heard about Dunbar's number (in between
150-200), but what sort of statistical distribution would you
obtain? Very easy, seemingly they follow a Planckian distribution.
We have limited mental resources and have to keep an "economy" on
our memory investment on other people... <br>
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<p>Anyhow, the present discussion session may be important to make
an indent on this curious commonality between the physical and the
biotic arrangement of exchanges.</p>
<p>All the best--Pedro<font size="+2"><br>
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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 0
50009 Zaragoza, Spain
Tfno. +34 976 71 3526 (& 6818)
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es">pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/">http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/</a>
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