Discussion Sessions

2024 Sessions

• In preparation:  Arran Garre (on contemporary science)
• Starting now: Emotional Sentience and Information. Katherine Peil Kauffman. April 2024
  
• Can we go beyond the limits of formal systems?: Carlos Gershenson. February 5, 2024
• FIS New Year Lecture: “A Third Transition in Science?” Stuart Kauffman. January 4, 2024

2023 Sessions

• FIS New Year Lecture: “The Roots of Modern Civilisation”  Plamen L. Simeonov. January 6, 2023
• Emotions as experience of Information Flow: Konstantin Lidin. February 28, 2023
  
• Declaration on Paradigm Revolution in AI: Yixin Zhong. October 11, 2023
• Social Information in Artificial Social Intelligence: Eric Werner. October 12, 2023

2022 Sessions

• FIS New Year Lecture: “Molecular Brains” Youri Timsit. January 8, 2022
• How Molecules Became Signs: Terry Deacon. February 21, 2022
• Theory and Practice of Contrast: Mariusz Stanowski. April 2, 2022
• Biological Computation: Andrei Igamberdiev. June 13, 2022
• Godelian Self-referential Genomes: Sheri Markose. October 25, 2022

2021 Sessions

• FIS New Year Lecture: “Entropy, the Second Law, and Life” Arieh Ben Naim. January 4, 2021
• Electronic Symbiosis: Howard Bloom. February 14, 2021
• Intelligence Science: May 12, 2021
• Decretum: “Concordance of the Discordant” November 18, 2021
• The Greater Sea: Kahlil Gibran. November 25, 2021

2020 Sessions

• FIS New Year Lecture: “Structures of Information and Disinformation” Joseph Brenner. January 2, 2020
• Definition of Information Stan Stanley. March 4, 2020
• 10 Principles of Information Science Yixin Zhong. June 28, 2020

2019 Sessions

• FIS New Year Lecture: “Counciousness and Entropy” L. Perez-Velazquez & R. Guevara-Erra. January 04, 2019
• New Perspectives: interrelationship FIS & IS4SI Pedro C. Marijuan. June 11, 2020
• What is a Machine? Bruno Marchal. November 3, 2019
• The Age of Discord Pedro C. Marijuan. November 22, 2019

2018 Sessions

• FIS New Year Lecture: “Reflections on Evolution Theory” John S. Torday. January 03, 2018
• Is Dataism the end of classical hypothesis-driven research and the beginning of data-correlation-driven research? Alberto J. Schuhmacher. March 06, 2018
• Is information physical? Mark Burgin. April 25, 2018
• Focusing on Narratives Pedro C. Marijuan. October, 2018

 2017 Sessions

• FIS New Year Lecture: “A Curious Story” Otto E. Rossler. January 05, 2017
• Planckian Information: A New Measure of Order Sungchul Ji. March, 2017
• 10 Principles of Information Science Pedro C. Marijuán. September, 2017

2016 Sessions

• FIS New Year Lecture: “Information and the Forces of History” Howard Bloom. January 03, 2016

SESSIONS ON PHENOMENOLOGY & LIFE (February-May, 2016)

• From Biology  Maxine Sheets-Johnstone. February, 2016
• From Mathematics  Louis H. Kauffman. March, 2016
• From Bio/Cybersemiotics Soeren Brier. April, 2016
• From Physics Alex Hankey. April, 2016
• With a challenging subject in integrative medicine Plamen L. Simeonov. May, 2016
• “A Priori” Modeling of Information  Marcus Abundis. June 16, 2016
• Scientific Communication and Publishing Mark William Johnson. Sept-October, 2016
• Topology and Brain Function  Arturo Tozzi & James Peters. Nov 23, 2016

2015 Sessions

•  FIS New Year Lecture: “Steps to a Theory of Reference & Significance in Information“ Terrence W. Deacon. January 07, 2015
• The Frontiers of Intelligence Science Zhao Chuan. March 2, 2015
• A Dialog on the Informational as the 4th Great Domain of Science Moisés André Nisenbaum & Ken Herold. May 15, 2015
•  Informational Foundation of the Act. Fernando de Flores & Luis de Marcos. June 2015.
• Information and Locality Steven Ericsson-Zenith. September 09, 2015
• Sustainability Through Multilevel Reseach Nikhil Joshi. November 20, 2015

2014 Sessions

• FIS New Year Lecture: “Quantum Bayesianism (QBism) — An interpretation of quantum mechanics based on quantum information theory”  Hans von Baeyer. January 02, 2014

• On Collective Intelligence: The Future of IT-Mediated Crowds  John Prpic. March 04, 2014

2013 Sessions

• The Sociotype: Social Relationships and Beyond  Raquel del Moral. September 27, 2013

2012 Sessions

(The main topics discussed will be introduced soon)

2011 Sessions

• The Background to Modern Science  James Hannam. February 02, 2011
• On Information Theory: Information, Mystery Solving  Mark Burgin. April 08, 2011
• Chemical Information: a Field of Fuzzy Contours?  Michel Petitjean. September 16, 2011
  

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• Information, Autopoiesis, Life and Semiosis  Søren Brier, January 22, 2004
• Entropy and Information: Two Polymorphic Concepts  Michel Petitjean. April 05, 2004
• Consilience: When Separate Inductions Jump Together  Malcolm Forster. September 15, 2004

2003 Sessions

• Music & Information  Juan G. Roederer. May 03, 2003
• Molecular Recognition and the Fundamental Laws of Information  Shu-Kun Lin. July 14, 2003
• Ecological Economics and Information  Jerry L.R. Chandler & Luis Serra. October 24, 2003

2002 Sessions

• FIS 2002: Electronic Conference on Foundations of Information Science  (MDPI)
  
  • Information Physics. Koichiro Matsuno. May 06, 2002
  • Information & Neuroscience. Peter Erdi. June 04, 2002
  • Philosophy & Information. John Collier. June 30, 2002
  • Misconceptions and Paradoxes. John Holgate. September 17, 2002
  • Social and/or General Information. Wolfgang Hofkirchner. November 11, 2002
  • Apparent Fundamental Differences. Ted Goranson. December 09, 2002

2000-2001 Sessions

(The main topics discussed during this period will be introduced soon)

1998-1999 Special Messages

• Virtual Conference 1998
  • Information & Physics. Koichiro Matsuno. January 06, 1998
    
  • Biological Information. Ray Paton. February 13, 1998
  • The Language of Cells. Pedro C. Marijuan & José Pastor. February 26, 1998
  • Social Information. Bob Artigiani. October 28, 1998