FIS

What is information? This question has haunted philosophers, scientists and technologists during the last three generations–at least. In this FIS web page, a new perspective on that phenomenon may be found (and quite many responses to the question too). Actually the main common thread is the advancement of a renewed information science, understood as one of the fundamental sciences, and leading one of the four Great Domains of Science: the Physical, the Biological, the Social, and the Informational (Computational?). Indeed, as in Escher’s engraving, “ingravid” information has generated a colossal castle in human societies, in biological evolution, and even at the cosmic scale…

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