<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">Dear Pedro and FIS Friends,<br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">Thank you Pedro for the reminder about the IS4SI Summit. If someone did not consider yet their participation in the Summit, please visit the website <a href="https://summit-2021.is4si.org/" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://summit-2021.is4si.org/</a>. <b>The deadline for submission of extended abstracts is June 15, 2021.</b> Participation in the Summit is free from any conference fee. There will be multiple choices for the publication of papers presented at the Summit's eleven conferences. There is an option to present different papers at more than one conference. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">Once again, thank you Pedro for the "wake-up call".</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">Regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif">Marcin</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"times new roman",serif"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman,serif" size="4">Marcin J. Schroeder, Ph.D.</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="1">Specially Appointed Professor </font></div><div><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:x-small">Global Learning Center </span><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"> </font></div><div><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:x-small">IEHE (Institute for Excellence in Higher Education) </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:x-small"> </span><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:x-small">(</span><font face="Arial" style="font-size:x-small">高度教養教育・学生支援機構) </font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:x-small"> </span><font size="1"></font></div><div><font face="times new roman,serif" size="1"><font face="Arial">Tohoku University </font></font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:x-small">(</span><font face="Arial" style="font-size:x-small">東北大学)</font><font face="times new roman,serif" size="1"><font face="Arial"> </font></font><font size="1" style="color:rgb(0,109,33)"> </font></div><a style="color:rgb(0,27,160);font-size:14px" href="https://www.bing.com/search?q=philosophies+mdpi&form=EDGSPH&mkt=en-us&httpsmsn=1&msnews=1&plvar=0&refig=b9ed598367f44bce8af0a68f11994568&PC=HCTS&sp=-1&pq=philosophies+mdpi&sc=0-17&qs=n&sk=&cvid=b9ed598367f44bce8af0a68f11994568#" target="_blank"></a><div><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:x-small">41 Kawauchi, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8576 JAPAN </span><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:x-small">(</span><font face="Arial" style="font-size:x-small">〒980-8576 仙台市青葉区川内41) </font></div><div><font face="times new roman,serif"><font face="Arial"><font face="times new roman,serif"><font style="color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="mailto:schroeder.marcin.e4@tohoku.ac.jp" target="_blank">schroeder.marcin.e4@tohoku.ac.jp</a> </font></font></font></font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span><font face="times new roman,serif"><font face="Arial"><font face="times new roman,serif"><br></font></font></font></div><div><font face="times new roman,serif">Professor Emeritus</font></div><div><font face="times new roman,serif">Akita International University, Akita Japan</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman,serif"><a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="mailto:mjs@aiu.ac.jp" target="_blank">mjs@gl.aiu.ac.jp</a> </font><font face="times new roman,serif" size="1"> </font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="times new roman,serif" size="1"> </font><font face="Times New Roman" size="1"> </font><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:x-small"> </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:x-small">Editor-in-Chief President</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:x-small"><i>Philosophies </i> (MDPI Basel Switzerland) </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:x-small"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:x-small">International Society for the Study of Information</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:x-small"> (IS4SI) </span></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="1" style="color:rgb(0,109,33)"><a style="color:rgb(0,109,33)" href="https://www.mdpi.com/journal/philosophies" target="_blank">https://www.mdpi.com/journal/philosophies</a> </font><font size="1" style="color:rgb(0,109,33)"> </font><font size="1"><a style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" href="http://is4si.org/about-is4si/organisation/board/" target="_blank">is4si.org/about-is4si/organisation/board/</a></font></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:x-small"><br><br><br></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 4:41 AM Pedro C. Marijuan <<a href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es">pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Dear FISers,</p>
<p>You will remember in those ancient times of travels and hotels
(so distant now!) the request in the front desk for a wake up
call... we should be on time for the presentations or for the
shuttle to the airport. <br>
</p>
<p>In these strange times of ours, of unrelenting isolation, every
month our stamina reserves are little by little depleted, at least
for those not directly involved in the duties of academic life or
institutional research. How a wake up call might be arranged for
those of us at the brisk of depression?</p>
<p>In June 15th is the deadline for participating in the IS4SI 2021
conference. See <a href="https://summit-2021.is4si.org/" target="_blank">https://summit-2021.is4si.org/</a></p>
<p><u>I think we should massively participate.</u> Let us post our
tentative abstracts in the list, as Howard did, and let us have
preliminary discussions. <br>
</p>
<p>Personally, I will send an abstract to one of the sessions (still
undecided which one could be fitting) about</p>
<p>THE PARADIGM OF NATURAL INTELLIGENCE</p>
<p>It will be argued that intelligence is a universal phenomenon
present in all forms of life. It requires a new form of
relationship with the environment, implying not only openness to
energy flows but to information flows as well. External
information processing, coupled with internal information
processing, may produce an adaptive life cycle that manifests
(natural) intelligence, produces meaning, and realizes fitness
value. Out from the basic prokaryotic conformation, the unit of
natural intelligence, it may develop hierarchically, via
multicellularity, and particularly with the evolution of nervous
systems. Then, natural intelligence fully develops up to the
point, in the human case, of exhibiting pieces of artificial
intelligence that mimic some of the basic properties of the
former. It will be finally argued that without a proper
understanding of natural intelligence, the scientific foundations
of artificial intelligence will be shaky--notwithstanding the
technological grandeur it is effectively achieving. But unbridled,
half-understood technologies are not a panacea for societies.
Often the opposite.</p>
<p>Best regards to all!</p>
<p>--Pedro<br>
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Pedro C. Marijuán
Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group
<a href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" target="_blank">pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es</a>
<a href="http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/" target="_blank">http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/</a>
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