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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Dear Terry, Joseph, and Colleagues,</div>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thanks for the well crafted
      reflections. I quite agree. Nevertheless, disinformation has been
      a historical constant in human societies, even within oral
      cultures. We are quite used to it, on a daily basis, always having
      to "struggle" in the little or big attacks against our reputation.
      And socially as well. If we remind the great crisis (and wars) of
      the past century, the propaganda, lies, and fakes ("bulos" as we
      say in Spanish) were an important and even decisive part of the
      multiple confrontations. But you are right that the new media, the
      social networks, represent uncharted waters --amazingly
      dangerous-- for disinformation. Our cultures and institutions have
      not distilled appropriate strategies to counteract them yet... In
      any case, rather than trying to bring more discussion elements (we
      already had a NY Lecture last year about that) I would like to be
      practical:  <br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Why we do not think on a regular,
      stable working group about it? A few parties, in my opinion
      counting with your and Joseph's own leading involvement, could
      start thinking about the organizing details of the idea. For
      instance, in future months we could have a regular discussion
      session in the list --a well prepared one-- and see the progress.
      It can be done under the IS4SI banner, or FIS--or whatever we
      think convenient. <br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">We never talk in this list about
      McLuhan, but some of his views become enormously pertinent in this
      context.</div>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Best--Pedro<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">at El 30/11/2020 a las 20:00, Terrence
      W. DEACON escribió:<br>
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            Pedro, Joseph, and FIS colleagues.</p>
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          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">I
            want to thank Joseph Brenner for keeping us focused on an
            information science challenge that we ignore to our peril:
            disinformation. By blurring the distinction between the
            statistical, referential, and normative aspects of
            information, we have little chance of being able to confront
            this pragmatically important existential challenge; whether
            politically, medically, scientifically, or ecologically. I
            think that the disinformation issue highlights the need to
            overcome disputes over whose definition of information is
            best, and to dig deeper into these higher-order information
            concepts. In this respect, continuing to challenge each
            other to rethink the assumptions at the foundations of
            information science is more important than ever.
            Understanding the information/disinformation distinction is
            a foundational social evolution problem. So I am both
            receptive to Joseph’s critique and also encouraged to see
            how Pedro has helped to facilitate an exchange of ideas
            between information theorists and social-evolution
            theorists. </p>
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          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">The
            explosive and destructive “success” of the disinformation
            enterprise has been generated both extrinsically and
            intrinsically. Extrinsically, because of the geopolitical
            advantages gained by creating confusion and discord in the
            ranks of potential competitors—the old divide and conquer
            strategy. Intrinsically, it follows in the wake of radical
            postmodern skepticism about knowledge. This has fueled
            uncertainties about what’s fact and what’s opinion, blurred
            the science/belief distinction, and promulgated a sense that
            truth is a property best assessed by analyzing the
            messenger, not the message. I think that our work could
            address some of the intrinsic problems, and thereby help us
            to better counter any extrinsic challenges.</p>
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          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">Of
            course, disinformation is a social weapon with a long
            history. The current augmented power of disinformation is a
            function of the way its dissemination has been amplified by
            the runaway dynamic implicit in social media platforms. This
            has been an unanticipated side-effect of the capitalistic
            foundation of these communication systems as well as their
            unprecedented global extent and ubiquity. Their economic
            success has been based on algorithms that are structured so
            as to maximize the time that users spend in a company’s
            virtual domain; thus increasing the time users spend exposed
            to their content, clicking on their links, getting current
            users to ensnare additional users, and in so doing providing
            data useful for improving this same capacity. It’s a perfect
            disinformational pyramid-scheme that no one anticipated, and
            will be quite difficult to rein in.</p>
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          <p
style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;font-size:17px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">This
            is the information challenge of our era. It is an
            existential challenge, and not merely one of academic
            relevance. I applaud any effort to bring the informational
            and social evolutionary discussions together in the FIS
            forum and to continue to pay attention to these normative
            and pragmatic challenges at the intersection of these
            fields. </p>
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          <p
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            Terry</p>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 12:29
          AM Joseph Brenner <<a href="mailto:joe.brenner@bluewin.ch"
            moz-do-not-send="true">joe.brenner@bluewin.ch</a>> wrote:<br>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Lucida Sans
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                    style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans
                    Unicode";color:navy">Dear FISers,</span></font></p>
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                    style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans
                    Unicode";color:navy" lang="EN-GB">Please excuse
                    my failing to include one additional point in my
                    previous note: there has been some discussion of the
                    degree to which Trump believes the disinformation he
                    spreads. The conclusion of one commentator is that
                    it makes no difference. This is a question of his
                    individual psychopathology. The latter is of
                    scientific interest, but one needs to be more
                    concerned with the damage to society and how that
                    can be remediated.  </span></font></p>
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                    style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans
                    Unicode";color:navy" lang="EN-GB">Thanks again,</span></font></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US">From:</span></font></b><font
                    size="2" face="Tahoma"><span
                      style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma"
                      lang="EN-US"> Fis [mailto:<a
                        href="mailto:fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es"
                        target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es</a>]
                      <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Joseph
                      Brenner<br>
                      <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b>
                      lundi, 30 novembre 2020 09:01<br>
                      <b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b>
                      'Pedro C. Marijuan'; <a
                        href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es"
                        target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">fis@listas.unizar.es</a><br>
                      <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b>
                      Re: [Fis] New Dialog on Social Systems. The
                      Disinformation Society</span></font><span
                    lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Lucida Sans
                  Unicode" color="navy"><span
                    style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans
                    Unicode";color:navy" lang="EN-GB">Dear Pedro,</span></font></p>
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                    style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans
                    Unicode";color:navy" lang="EN-GB">There is no
                    disjunction between your information science ‘mill’
                    and our latest discussion of society. A little less
                    than a year ago, we had a very good discussion of
                    disinformation. In this period, we have had to
                    experience, and are still experiencing in the United
                    States, one of the most massive and vicious
                    disinformation campaigns in history. This one comes
                    complete with, and is served by, all the latest
                    information and communications technologies. In the
                    hands of right-wing ideologues and their Master
                    Puppet, they are causing a catastrophic “retreat
                    from reality”, as one U.S. journalist aptly named
                    it, by poorly prepared segments of the population. </span></font></p>
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                    style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans
                    Unicode";color:navy" lang="EN-GB">Information
                    science and philosophy thus must include the study
                    of the susceptibility of information to this kind of
                    distortion, misuse and instrumentalization. One
                    technique, which I might call totalitarian, is to
                    occupy as much as possible of the available
                    multi-dimensional information space.   </span></font></p>
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Lucida Sans
                  Unicode" color="navy"><span
                    style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans
                    Unicode";color:navy" lang="EN-GB">To combat
                    this, we should make, I think, a conscious effort to
                    better understand the complex ecological knowledge
                    systems in which we are embedded to see how they can
                    be furthered for the common good.</span></font></p>
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                    style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Lucida Sans
                    Unicode";color:navy" lang="EN-GB">Thank you and
                    best wishes,</span></font></p>
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style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US">From:</span></font></b><font
                    size="2" face="Tahoma"><span
                      style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma"
                      lang="EN-US"> Fis [mailto:<a
                        href="mailto:fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es"
                        target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es</a>]
                      <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Pedro
                      C. Marijuan<br>
                      <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b>
                      samedi, 28 novembre 2020 19:18<br>
                      <b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> <a
                        href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es"
                        target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">fis@listas.unizar.es</a><br>
                      <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b>
                      Re: [Fis] New Dialog on Social Systems</span></font><span
                    lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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                    Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt">Dear Joseph and
                      colleagues,</span></font></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New
                    Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt">Let me first
                      cordially thank to the contributors who have
                      chimed in the list and expressed their
                      appreciation. About your reflection, yes, it was a
                      neat transdisciplinary exercise. It was an initial
                      idea from Andrei that we two crystallized during
                      the IS4SI venue in Berkeley. In some sense it is
                      unusual business, given the compartmentalized
                      structure of most research, but at the same time
                      it may be the natural way to look at such
                      "information objects" of extreme complexity as
                      societies are. We need a bunch of the perspectives
                      capable of saying anything interesting or relevant
                      about them. For medieval thinker Raymond Lulli
                      this handling of heterogeneous perspectives was
                      the intellectual "Ars Magna".  It represents the
                      continued recombination processes withing the
                      "ecologies of knowledge" of our colleague Yixin.
                      And it was one of fundamental information
                      principles I presented last month.</span></font></p>
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                <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New
                    Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt">And to draw some
                      more water to my own mill, quite many principles
                      of those variegated disciplines might be put in
                      connection with the principles of information
                      science. Information science and information
                      philosophy would appear as the "unofficial
                      handlers" of that intuitive Art.</span></font></p>
              </div>
              <div>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New
                    Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></font></p>
              </div>
              <div>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New
                    Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt">Best regards</span></font></p>
              </div>
              <div>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New
                    Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt">--Pedro</span></font></p>
              </div>
              <div>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New
                    Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt"> </span></font></p>
              </div>
              <div>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New
                    Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt">El 28/11/2020 a
                      las 10:31, Joseph Brenner escribió</span></font></p>
              </div>
              <blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt"
                type="cite">
                <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Lucida Sans
                    Unicode ;color:navy" color="navy"><span
                      style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Lucida
                      Sans Unicode ;color:navy";color:navy">Dear
                      Pedro, Dear Andrei,</span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Lucida Sans
                    Unicode ;color:navy" color="navy"><span
                      style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Lucida
                      Sans Unicode ;color:navy";color:navy"> </span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Lucida Sans
                    Unicode" color="navy"><span><span
                        style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Lucida
                        Sans Unicode";color:navy" lang="EN-GB">Many
                        thanks to you both for the opportunity to have
                        participated in this remarkable project! I look
                        forward to reading all the papers, especially
                        those of some of the non-FIS contributors with
                        whom I have lost contact. It just occurred to me
                        that this <i><span style="font-style:italic">Special
                            Issue </span></i>is an exemplary <i><span
                            style="font-style:italic">Transdisciplinary
                          </span></i>Project, of the kind that IS4SI is
                        supposed also to help develop. We could either
                        just say: <i><span style="font-style:italic">Nous
                            faisons de la Transdisciplinarité sans le
                            savoir </span></i>or we could use this
                        concept in some way. I offer this thought for
                        your consideration during the 3<sup>rd</sup>
                        International Congress on Transdisciplinarity
                        which is in progress essentially on-line for the
                        next six months. Comments welcome.</span></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Lucida Sans
                    Unicode" color="navy"><span><span
                        style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Lucida
                        Sans Unicode";color:navy" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Lucida Sans
                    Unicode" color="navy"><span><span
                        style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Lucida
                        Sans Unicode";color:navy" lang="EN-GB">Best
                        wishes,</span></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Lucida Sans
                    Unicode" color="navy"><span><span
                        style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Lucida
                        Sans Unicode";color:navy" lang="EN-GB"> </span></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Lucida Sans
                    Unicode" color="navy"><span><span
                        style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Lucida
                        Sans Unicode";color:navy" lang="EN-GB">Joseph
                      </span></span></font></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" face="Arial"
                    color="navy"><span
                      style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy"
                      lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
                <div>
                  <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"
                    align="center"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
                        style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-US">
                        <hr width="100%" size="2" align="center"> </span></font></div>
                  <p class="MsoNormal"><b><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><span
style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold" lang="EN-US">From:</span></font></b><font
                      size="2" face="Tahoma"><span
                        style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma"
                        lang="EN-US"> Fis [<a
                          href="mailto:fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es"
                          target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">mailto:fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es</a>]
                        <b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Pedro
                        C. Marijuan<br>
                        <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b>
                        jeudi, 26 novembre 2020 20:20<br>
                        <b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b>
                        'fis'<br>
                        <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b>
                        [Fis] New Dialog on Social Systems</span></font></p>
                </div>
                <p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Times New
                    Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt" lang="EN-GB"> </span></font></p>
                <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
                      style="font-size:12pt">Dear FIS Colleagues,</span></font></p>
                <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
                      style="font-size:12pt">You may remember the
                      announcement that Andrei Igamberdiev and me
                      circulated last year on a special issue in
                      BioSystems on the "Evolutionary Dynamics of Social
                      Systems--Looking for a New Dialog". We are glad to
                      tell that the edition is finally over and the
                      contributions (more than 20) of this special issue
                      can be freely visited and downloaded during 50
                      days, until will 13 January 2021, in the link: <a
href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/biosystems/special-issue/107DGX9V85V"
                        target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/biosystems/special-issue/107DGX9V85V</a>
                    </span></font></p>
                <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
                      style="font-size:12pt">Quite a few contributors
                      belong to our list: <i><span
                          style="font-style:italic">Joseph Brenner &
                          Andrei Igamberdiev</span></i> (reflexive
                      transformation of reality), <i><span
                          style="font-style:italic">Loet Leydesdorff </span></i>(codes
                      in inter-human communications), <i><span
                          style="font-style:italic">Howard Bloom</span></i>
                      (biopolitics: bacterial roots of the new
                      autocracies) , <i><span style="font-style:italic">Yagmur
                          Denizhan </span></i>(from archaic to modern
                      myths), <i><span style="font-style:italic">Wolfgang
                          Hofkirchner </span></i>(the contemporary
                      Great Bifurcation), <i><span
                          style="font-style:italic">Pedro Marijuan &
                          Jorge Navarro</span></i> (acceleration of
                      cultural change).... There are also contributions
                      from the <i><span style="font-style:italic">Cliodynamics
                          school </span></i>(on political stability of
                      societies), from <i><span
                          style="font-style:italic">Adrian Bejan</span></i>
                      (constructal nature of social evolution), from <i><span
                          style="font-style:italic">Nicholas Christakis</span></i>'
                      team (selective mating in human evolution), from <i><span
                          style="font-style:italic">Andrei Khrennikov </span></i>(entropy
                      and quantum effects in decision making), etc. </span></font></p>
                <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
                      style="font-size:12pt">You may have a previous
                      glance on our editorial presenting the issue: <a
href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303264720301489"
                        target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0303264720301489</a></span></font></p>
                <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
                      style="font-size:12pt">Hope you will find it an
                      interesting and useful special issue.</span></font></p>
                <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
                      style="font-size:12pt">Best--Pedro</span></font></p>
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                <pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">Pedro C. Marijuán</span></font></pre>
                <pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group</span></font></pre>
                <pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font></pre>
                <pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt"><a href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es</a></span></font></pre>
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                <pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt"><fieldset></fieldset>_______________________________________________</span></font></pre>
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                <pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">INFORMACIÓN SOBRE PROTECCIÓN DE DATOS DE CARÁCTER PERSONAL</span></font></pre>
                <pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font></pre>
                <pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">Ud. recibe este correo por pertenecer a una lista de correo gestionada por la Universidad de Zaragoza.</span></font></pre>
                <pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">Puede encontrar toda la información sobre como tratamos sus datos en el siguiente enlace: <a href="https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas</a></span></font></pre>
                <pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">Recuerde que si está suscrito a una lista voluntaria Ud. puede darse de baja desde la propia aplicación en el momento en que lo desee.</span></font></pre>
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              <p><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span
                    style="font-size:12pt"> </span></font></p>
              <pre cols="72"><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">-- </span></font></pre>
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              <pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">Pedro C. Marijuán</span></font></pre>
              <pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt">Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group</span></font></pre>
              <pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span></font></pre>
              <pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt"><a href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es</a></span></font></pre>
              <pre><font size="2" face="Courier New"><span style="font-size:10pt"><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/</a></span></font></pre>
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            moz-do-not-send="true">Fis@listas.unizar.es</a><br>
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            rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis</a><br>
          ----------<br>
          INFORMACIÓN SOBRE PROTECCIÓN DE DATOS DE CARÁCTER PERSONAL<br>
          <br>
          Ud. recibe este correo por pertenecer a una lista de correo
          gestionada por la Universidad de Zaragoza.<br>
          Puede encontrar toda la información sobre como tratamos sus
          datos en el siguiente enlace: <a
href="https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas"
            rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas</a><br>
          Recuerde que si está suscrito a una lista voluntaria Ud. puede
          darse de baja desde la propia aplicación en el momento en que
          lo desee.<br>
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            target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">http://listas.unizar.es</a><br>
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      -- <br>
      <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">Professor Terrence W.
        Deacon<br>
        University of California, Berkeley</div>
      <br>
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Ud. recibe este correo por pertenecer a una lista de correo gestionada por la Universidad de Zaragoza.
Puede encontrar toda la información sobre como tratamos sus datos en el siguiente enlace: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas" moz-do-not-send="true">https://sicuz.unizar.es/informacion-sobre-proteccion-de-datos-de-caracter-personal-en-listas</a>
Recuerde que si está suscrito a una lista voluntaria Ud. puede darse de baja desde la propia aplicación en el momento en que lo desee.
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">-- 
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Pedro C. Marijuán
Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group

<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" moz-do-not-send="true">pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/" moz-do-not-send="true">http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/</a>
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