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<p>Dear FISers,</p>
<p>Just to provide some interesting contents for these vacation
weeks, I include herein fragments of a very useful compendium that
Annette Grathoff (at the IS4SI Secretariat) made on the
presentations of the Berkeley Conference.<br>
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<p><i>Here is a portfolio of links to pictures of some of the
Keynote speakers together with the topics of their
presentations so that you can find them using the link below
to a collection of youtube videos with all keynote
presentations:</i></p>
<p><strong><a
href="https://drive.google.com/a/berkeley.edu/file/d/1fqYF7Pz492f7-62fnEAuzLhKPohBKPkx/view?usp=drive_web"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"
moz-do-not-send="true"> Deacon.png</a></strong> <strong>“Perfecting
Behaviorism: Neural Nets as Subjects and Trainers”<br>
</strong><strong><a
href="https://drive.google.com/a/berkeley.edu/file/d/14zpZJinTzq1cZ-9arREVf6SMU7vZuhN3/view?usp=drive_web"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"
moz-do-not-send="true"> Duguid.png</a></strong> <strong>„Connecting
the Dots? ´Information´ in Historical Perspective“<br>
</strong><strong><a
href="https://drive.google.com/a/berkeley.edu/file/d/1GtAe6xHxcfUFb-BQznLjON9YasREHfrE/view?usp=drive_web"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"
moz-do-not-send="true"> Harris.png</a></strong> <strong>„Humane:
A New Direction for Tech“<br>
</strong><strong><a
href="https://drive.google.com/a/berkeley.edu/file/d/1mguMJ6Leit_Kb6c_vu9hyj9qCCXHOQfk/view?usp=drive_web"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"
moz-do-not-send="true"> Heylighen.png</a></strong> <strong>„</strong>
<strong>Return to Eden? Promises and Perils on the Road to a
Global Superintelligence”<br>
</strong><strong><a
href="https://drive.google.com/a/berkeley.edu/file/d/1mz4VShpuhn4R4K3llPlW-UHjg9W1kfpA/view?usp=drive_web"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"
moz-do-not-send="true"> Hylton.png</a></strong> <strong>„Thermodynamic
Computing“<br>
</strong><strong><a
href="https://drive.google.com/a/berkeley.edu/file/d/1P8M8o8cLeQuIQQaUo2QywGPm9rA8yEBD/view?usp=drive_web"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"
moz-do-not-send="true"> Lanier.png</a></strong> <strong>„In
Defense of Dualism“<br>
</strong><strong><a
href="https://drive.google.com/a/berkeley.edu/file/d/1AD0N_QwHYaBwWR_f7YvccVkDb1ybFYdY/view?usp=drive_web"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"
moz-do-not-send="true"> Leijnen.png</a></strong> <strong>„A
Taxonomy of the Neural Network Zoo“<br>
</strong><strong><a
href="https://drive.google.com/a/berkeley.edu/file/d/1Kdikb8LwofSv2foT5K6y3Icov-4fxdGx/view?usp=drive_web"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"
moz-do-not-send="true"> Mitchell.png</a></strong><strong>.
“The Barrier of Meaning”<br>
</strong><strong><a
href="https://drive.google.com/a/berkeley.edu/file/d/1uuiJIcoNOZkSx5biy81ERcbHaB_CYQdx/view?usp=drive_web"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"
moz-do-not-send="true"> Olshausen.png</a></strong> <strong>„Getting
the ´I´ into AI Some Clues from Biology and Mathematics“<br>
</strong><strong><a
href="https://drive.google.com/a/berkeley.edu/file/d/1hihcAhA6pqOd34UDcmdv1v2EINRbW5Ur/view?usp=drive_web"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"
moz-do-not-send="true"> Saffo.png</a></strong> <strong>„Lost
in a Forest of Exponentials“</strong></p>
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<p><i>You can find a Youtube playlist of videos of keynote
speeches and a panel discussion (between Heylighen, Leijnen,
Olshausen, Mitchell and Verschure) here:</i></p>
<p><a
href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeYtrzrsXQ2D9Iko7VSIJ5eDq1Q3K_PmP"
target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLeYtrzrsXQ2D9Iko7VSIJ5eDq1Q3K_PmP</a></p>
Needless to say that outdoors of the conference there were very
exciting exchanges. For instance, the idea of a possible
"manifesto" on the crossroads that AI and IT have reached. The
rarefied social polarization within many societies, the
accumulation of economic & communication power in the hands of
a few parties--almost adolescents!-- and the strange contest for
world hegemony between countries and their flagship companies do
constitute a new, strange panorama. "The Information New Order".
Indeed, more advanced information core ideas are needed to get
ahead our with collective views, and even to orientate oneself...</div>
<div dir="ltr">Anyhow, have a good time, or enter your discussion
themes or personal presentations into the list if you wish, and
let us prepare for the New Course.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">Best wishes to all<br>
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<div dir="ltr">--Pedro</div>
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<div dir="ltr"> PS. Remember that the archives of fis list may be
found at the Unizar register: <cite><a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://listas.unizar.es/pipermail/fis/">http://listas.unizar.es/pipermail/fis/</a><br>
</cite></div>
<div dir="ltr">And also more systematically ordered by discussion
sessions at:<cite>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://fis.sciforum.net/fis-discussion-sessions/">https://fis.sciforum.net/fis-discussion-sessions/</a></cite></div>
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