<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Stanley N Salthe</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:ssalthe@binghamton.edu">ssalthe@binghamton.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 10:43 AM<br>Subject: Re: [Fis] New Course Novelties<br>To: Pedro C. Marijuan <<a href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es">pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Pedro, all -- Here is my unpacking of Pedro's three (I would make them out to be) stages of the emergence of coding<div><br></div><div>
<p><span> THE GREAT DIVIDE: ANIMATE VERSUS INANIMATE INFORMATION.</span></p>
<p><span> THE NUCLEAR INFORMATIONAL CONVERGENCE: CELLS, ORGANISMS, SOCIAL ENTITIES.</span></p>
<p><span> THE INFORMATION ERA SCHISM: INFO SCIENCE VERSUS INFO TECHNOLOGY (David vs. Goliath!).</span></p>
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<p><span>The emergence/evolution of CODING by way of elaborate correlations in living systems between codewords and the structural basis of life -- proteins.</span></p>
<p><span>The use of codes by organisms, as such in navigating the world, and as a means for organizing social living.</span></p>
<p><span>The elaboration of coding mechanistically in computer technology.</span></p><p><span><br></span></p><p><span>STAN</span></p></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 7:48 AM Pedro C. Marijuan <<a href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" target="_blank">pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Dear Marcin and colleagues,</div>
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<div>Nice to hear from you. I think it will
be quite fertile the new interaction between FIS list and IS4SI
board. On the one side, the concern we share about developing
further organization is very positive. In my personal opinion
there should be a few important quasi "continental" Chapters (eg,
US, China, EU, Japan, perhaps India & Latin America...), plus
national Sections, and individuals acting as promoters engaged
with the creation of Sections/Chapters. Calling them Ambassadors,
Delegates, or Representatives is a matter of taste. The role of
the Secretariat should be highlighted, I think, as it is along
this via that those promoters should be supported (perhaps
previously proposed by dedicated members of the board or the
acting chairs). My suggestion is that in the board discussions of
the Strategic Plan we settle the details of these matters. But in
the meantime, I suggest that we START TO ACT and send to Annette
the coordinates of those parties potentially interested in
building a national section/chapter somewhere. It is very
difficult creating a complex organization from scratch, we have to
advance step by step and also to take risks.<br>
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<div>And on the other side, perhaps we have
not been paying attention to the existing <u>symbiosis</u>
between FIS list and IS4SI. Actually, the latter was originated
from a FIS conference (Beijing 2010), and it is a fact that the
list has been playing a significant role of continuity in between
the successive conferences--Moscow, Vienna, Gotteburg, Berkeley.
But we have not been taking care of fertilizing that implicit
symbiosis. Plenty of attendants of those conferences could have
been inscribed in the list--young graduate and PhD students
particularly (as Gordana has commented me offline). IS4SI itself
lacks sufficient membership... Part of the problem is the lack of
a cohesive intellectual path for the "common future". For every
veteran FISer and every IS4SI board member represents a
differentiated intellectual interest and research program. Fine,
as it should be. But let us also devote some time to articulate a
few common directions.</div>
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<div>If someone would ask me to describe
just three headlines for those main directions, I would respond:
1) THE GREAT DIVIDE: ANIMATE VERSUS INANIMATE INFORMATION. 2) THE
NUCLEAR INFORMATIONAL CONVERGENCE: CELLS, ORGANISMS, SOCIAL
ENTITIES. 3) THE INFORMATION ERA SCHISM: INFO SCIENCE VERSUS INFO
TECHNOLOGY (David vs. Goliath!).<br>
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<div>And with this I have already spent my
"three cents" for this week...</div>
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<div>Greetings to all,</div>
<div>--Pedro<br></div></div></blockquote><div>---------------------------</div><div class="gmail-gE gmail-iv gmail-gt" style="cursor: auto;"><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><table cellpadding="0" class="gmail-cf gmail-gJ"><tbody><tr class="gmail-acZ"><td class="gmail-gF gmail-gK" style="width:852.172px"><table cellpadding="0" class="gmail-cf gmail-ix" style="width:852px"><tbody><tr><td class="gmail-c2"><h3 class="gmail-iw"><span class="gmail-qu" tabindex="-1"><span name="Pedro C. Marijuan" class="gmail-gD">Pedro C. Marijuan</span></span></h3></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td class="gmail-gH gmail-bAk"><div class="gmail-gK"><span id="gmail-:20f" class="gmail-g3" title="Oct 4, 2019, 12:38 PM" alt="Oct 4, 2019, 12:38 PM" tabindex="-1">12:38 PM (2 hours ago)</span><div class="gmail-zd gmail-bi4" title="Not starred" tabindex="0" style="outline:0px"><span class="gmail-T-KT"></span></div></div></td><td class="gmail-gH"></td><td class="gmail-gH gmail-acX gmail-bAm" rowspan="2"><div class="gmail-T-I gmail-J-J5-Ji gmail-T-I-Js-IF gmail-aaq gmail-T-I-ax7 gmail-L3" tabindex="0"><img class="gmail-hB gmail-T-I-J3" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/images/cleardot.gif" alt=""></div><div id="gmail-:1mp" class="gmail-T-I gmail-J-J5-Ji gmail-T-I-Js-Gs gmail-aap gmail-T-I-awG gmail-T-I-ax7 gmail-L3" tabindex="0"><img class="gmail-hA gmail-T-I-J3" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/images/cleardot.gif" alt=""></div></td></tr><tr class="gmail-acZ gmail-xD"><td colspan="3"><table cellpadding="0" class="gmail-cf gmail-adz" style="width:1104px"><tbody><tr><td class="gmail-ady"><div class="gmail-iw gmail-ajw"><span class="gmail-hb">to <span dir="ltr" name="me" class="gmail-g2">me</span></span></div><div id="gmail-:11l" class="gmail-ajy" tabindex="0"><img class="gmail-ajz" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/images/cleardot.gif" alt=""></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div id="gmail-:20j"><div class="gmail-qQVYZb"></div><div class="gmail-utdU2e"></div><div class="gmail-btm"></div></div><div class="gmail-"><div class="gmail-aHl"></div><div id="gmail-:uz" tabindex="-1"></div><div id="gmail-:20h" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt gmail-adO"><div id="gmail-:20i" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aXjCH"><div class="gmail-adM"></div><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div class="gmail-adM"></div><div>Thanks Stan, quite brilliant unpacking--I fully agree.</div><div>But why don't you send it to the list too?</div><div>Best--Pedro</div><div class="gmail-yj6qo gmail-ajU"></div></div></div></div></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>
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