Re: [Fis] THE FOURTH GREAT DOMAIN OF SCIENCE: INFORMATIONAL? - What is a discipline?
Hi Bob, One of the classic studies: *The study of information: interdisciplinary messages* Editors:Fritz Machlup http://dl.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100466573coll=DLdl=ACMtrk=0cfid=677888792cftoken=53847757Una Mansfield http://dl.acm.org/author_page.cfm?id=81100259106coll=DLdl=ACMtrk=0cfid=677888792cftoken=53847757Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ http://dl.acm.org/inst_page.cfm?id=60003269CFID=677888792CFTOKEN=53847757 Publication:· BookThe study of information: interdisciplinary messages http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2578picked=proxpreflayout=tabsJohn Wiley Sons, Inc. New York, NY, USA ©1983 table of contents http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2578picked=proxcfid=677888792cftoken=53847757 ISBN:0-471-88717-X Regards, Ken On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Bob Logan lo...@physics.utoronto.ca wrote: Dear Colleagues - I have been reading the posts in this thread and enjoying the conversation. I started playing with the notion of discipline and came up with these undisciplined playful thoughts which I believe provide an interesting or at least an alternative perspective on the notion of a discipline. A discipline is a tool, a way of organizing ideas that result from scientific inquiry or any other form of scholarly activity and even artistic activity. Now every tool provides both service and disservice. All of the posts so far have dealt with the service of discipline. Here are some thoughts about the possible disservice of discipline. Please take the following with a grain of salt. I believe the notion of a discipline is anti-thetical to scientific inquiry in the sense that it confines ones thinking to the confines of a discipline. One should not be disciplined by a discipline but be free to go beyond the boundaries of that discipline. Note that the root of the word discipline is disciple. If one is to be free to explore new ideas and new phenomena one should not be a disciple of the scientists or thinkers that created a discipline. Now I am not saying that learning a discipline is a bad thing as it provides a solid training and an understanding of how a set of principles describes certain phenomena. It is a model of how a scientific, scholarly or artistic practice can be carried out. As long as one does not become a disciple of one's discipline or disciplines they can be very useful for creating a new discipline or going beyond ones discipline. Perhaps the notion of trans-disciplinary is not such a bad notion if one thinks of trans as beyond. ___ Fis mailing list Fis@listas.unizar.es http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis
[Fis] It From Bit video
Released recently--what about the biological? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ATWa2AEvIY -- Ken ___ Fis mailing list Fis@listas.unizar.es http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis
[Fis] Garfield 1955 - organizing metadata for scientific literature
FIS folks, Once again I need to step back into my niche role from the library side of things and share Garfield's breakthrough work from 60 years ago. http://www.library.fa.ru/files/Garfield.pdf Ken -- Ken Herold Director, Library Information Systems Hamilton College 198 College Hill Road Clinton, NY 13323 315-859-4487 kher...@hamilton.edu ___ Fis mailing list Fis@listas.unizar.es http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis
[Fis] Exploring Philosophies of Information
I am pleased to announce Library Trends, Winter 2015, special issue on exploring philosophies of information. https://muse.jhu.edu/journals/library_trends/toc/lib.63.3.html Regards, Ken -- Ken Herold Director, Library Information Systems Hamilton College 198 College Hill Road Clinton, NY 13323 315-859-4487 kher...@hamilton.edu ___ Fis mailing list Fis@listas.unizar.es http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis
Re: [Fis] Fis Digest, Vol 11, Issue 10
I agree, of course. I look ahead to these discussions. Regards, Ken On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Moisés André Nisenbaum moises.nisenb...@ifrj.edu.br wrote: Hi, Pedro. Yes, of course! It would be a very interesting discution :-) Best, Moisés 2015-02-17 9:00 GMT-02:00 fis-requ...@listas.unizar.es: Send Fis mailing list submissions to fis@listas.unizar.es To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to fis-requ...@listas.unizar.es You can reach the person managing the list at fis-ow...@listas.unizar.es When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Fis digest... Today's Topics: 1. Concluding the Lecture (Pedro C. Marijuan) -- Mensagem encaminhada -- From: Pedro C. Marijuan pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es To: 'fis' fis@listas.unizar.es Cc: Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 14:02:15 +0100 Subject: [Fis] Concluding the Lecture Dear FIS Colleagues, February is well advanced, and it is time to put a definite end to the New Year Lecture. We have had a very interesting discussion time, though rather silent in these final days. It was nice counting with Terry chairmanship, he has had a very hard work with all those responses--thanks a lot to him. Thanks are also due to Bob Logan for his implication in organizing the Lecture and to the Pirates thought collective for their participation. In the next session, in ten days or so, we will approach the global phenomenon of intelligence: artificial and natural, rational and emotional, scientific and artistic, East and West... let us wait and see. Also, hearing from Ken Herold on Library Science and from Moises Andre on interaction between disciplines was sort of a nice surprise: the connection between the traditional approach and the new one becomes a highly strategic goal for information science. Maybe it is one of the topics we have to address in a specific discussion session. Moises, Ken--does it sound interesting? Best wishes to all --Pedro -- - Pedro C. Marijuán Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Aragón (CIBA) Avda. San Juan Bosco, 13, planta X 50009 Zaragoza, Spain Tfno. +34 976 71 3526 ( 6818) pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/ - ___ Fis mailing list Fis@listas.unizar.es http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis -- Moisés André Nisenbaum Doutorando IBICT/UFRJ. Professor. Msc. Instituto Federal do Rio de Janeiro - IFRJ Campus Maracanã moises.nisenb...@ifrj.edu.br ___ Fis mailing list Fis@listas.unizar.es http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis -- Ken Herold Director, Library Information Systems Hamilton College 198 College Hill Road Clinton, NY 13323 315-859-4487 kher...@hamilton.edu ___ Fis mailing list Fis@listas.unizar.es http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis
Re: [Fis] Information-as-Process
=1.1.2filename=image001.png in which mailbox:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/pcmarijuan.iacs/ Datos%20de%20programa/Thunderbird/Profiles/2vg9i0k9.default/Mail/ pop3.aragon-1.es/Inbox?number=1793468636header=quotebodypart=1.1.3 filename=image002.pngcan be considered as the a posteriori and mailbox:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/pcmarijuan.iacs/ Datos%20de%20programa/Thunderbird/Profiles/2vg9i0k9.default/Mail/ pop3.aragon-1.es/Inbox?number=1793468636header=quotebodypart=1.1.4 filename=image003.pngthe a priori distribution. This dynamic information measure can be decomposed and aggregated. One can also develop measures for systemic developments and critical transitions. In other words, information as a process can also be measured in bits of information. Of course, one can extend the dimensionality (/i/) for the multivariate case (/ijk/…), and thus use information theory for network analysis (including time). Best, Loet References: ·Leydesdorff, L. (1991). The Static and Dynamic Analysis of Network Data Using Information Theory. /Social Networks, 13/(4), 301-345. ·Theil, H. (1972). /Statistical Decomposition Analysis/. Amsterdam/ London: North-Holland. Loet Leydesdorff /Emeritus/ University of Amsterdam Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) l...@leydesdorff.net mailto:l...@leydesdorff.net; http://www.leydesdorff.net/ Honorary Professor, SPRU, http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/University of Sussex; Guest Professor Zhejiang Univ. http://www.zju.edu.cn/english/, Hangzhou; Visiting Professor, ISTIC, http://www.istic.ac.cn/Eng/brief_en.htmlBeijing; Visiting Professor, Birkbeck http://www.bbk.ac.uk/, University of London; http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYJhl=en http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYJhl=en *From:* Fis [mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es mailto:fis-boun...@listas.unizar.es] *On Behalf Of *Steven Ericsson-Zenith *Sent:* Monday, December 08, 2014 10:22 PM *To:* Joseph Brenner *Cc:* fis *Subject:* Re: [Fis] Information-as-Process I am a little mystified by your assertion of information as process. What, exactly, is this and how does it differ fro information in general (Shannon). Is it related to Whitehead's process notions? In terms of neuroscience it is important to move away from connectionism and modern computational ideas I believe. It is not clear to me how information theory can be applied to the operation of the brain at the synaptic level because the actions and the decisions made are made across the structure and not at a single location. Recognition, for example, is not a point event but occurs rather when a particular shape is formed in the structure (of the CNS, for example) and is immediately covariant with the appropriate response (another shape) which may be characterized as a hyper-functor (which may or may not include neurons and astrocytes in the brain). Regards, Steven -- - Pedro C. Marijuán Grupo de Bioinformación / Bioinformation Group Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Aragón (CIBA) Avda. San Juan Bosco, 13, planta X 50009 Zaragoza, Spain Tfno. +34 976 71 3526 ( 6818) pcmarijuan.i...@aragon.es http://sites.google.com/site/pedrocmarijuan/ - ___ Fis mailing list Fis@listas.unizar.es http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis -- Ken Herold Director, Library Information Systems Hamilton College 198 College Hill Road Clinton, NY 13323 315-859-4487 kher...@hamilton.edu ___ Fis mailing list Fis@listas.unizar.es http://listas.unizar.es/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fis
