Dear Bob, Terry and FIS colleagues,
Let me remember the possibility to organize conferences on FIS offerd by the
ITHEA ISS in Varna, Bulgaria.
Please see what we have done till now at
http://ithea.org/
You and all FIS colleagues are welcome !
Friendly regards
Krassimir
From: Bob Logan
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 6:45 PM
To: dea...@berkeley.edu
Cc: Greg Van Alstyne ; Guastello,Stephen ; Jutta (Academic) Treviranus ; Lenore
Richards ; off...@nesci.org ; Stuartkauffman ; stuart.kauff...@uvm.edu ;
yan...@nesci.org ; fis ; Stuart Kauffman
Subject: [Fis] Incomplete Nature - Completing the discussion that Terrystarted
Hi Terry - I just finished your book literally 2 minutes ago. I just had to
tell you what a brilliant and moving piece of work it is. I plan to go through
it and write a lengthy review of it just to attempt to nail down all the ideas
you developed in this amazing tome. And I agree "there is more here than
stuff".
The first thing that comes to mind is that a conference should be organized
around this book so we can discuss as a community the implication of the
challenges you have presented. This is an important piece of work the
implications of which need to be discussed.
I would be happy to help organize such a conference but I do not think I have
the resources to organize such a conference myself at OCAD University but I
will try. I can think of some organizations for which this idea would appeal.
Perhaps the complexity conferences organized by Yaneer at NESCI would be an
appropriate venue. I remember vividly a conversation that you and Stu had in
which I participated in a peripheral way at one of Yaneer's conferences a
number of years ago, which I believe was held in Boston.
Another possibility is the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology & Life
Sciences conference co-ordinated by Stephen Guastello
Another possibility is someone in the FIS group based primarily in Europe might
want to do something.
{If any of the groups I mentioned are interested in a conference on Terry's
book Incomplete Nature please contact me so I can volunteer to help}
I would want to involve Stuart Kauffman in such a conference as you refer to
him frequently. I am very proud that you began Chapter 13 with the quote from
Stu that was contained in the paper I co-authored with him and others.
Perhaps there is a conference already being planned in which case I would like
to participate.
Finally, you asked that I remind you to write a short piece for the special
issue of the e-journal MDPI Information. So this is another reminder. An
excerpt from your book would do as well.
Thanks so much for writing such a great book and stimulating so much thought.
Bob
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Robert K. Logan
Chief Scientist - sLab at OCAD
Prof. Emeritus - Physics - U. of Toronto
www.physics.utoronto.ca/Members/logan
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