2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) †
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. President’s Theme Statement for the 2021 IS4SI Summit (Marcin J. Schroeder)
3. Organizing Committee of the Summit
- Syed Mustafa ALI (School of Computing and Communications, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK),
- Charalambos ALIFIERIS (Independent Scholar, Greece),
- Peter BOLTUC (University of Illinois, Springfield, MO, USA & Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland),
- Joseph BRENNER (Independent Scholar, Switzerland),
- Mark BURGIN (University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA),
- Zhicheng CHEN (IS4SI Vice-President for Special Inteest Groups, China),
- Gordana DODIG-CRNKOVIC (Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden),
- Raffaela GIOVAGNOLI (Faculty of Philosophy, Pontifical Lateran University, Vatican),
- Annette GRATHOFF (IS4SI Secretary General, Vienna, Austria),
- Masami HAGIYA (Department of Information Science, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan),
- Wolfgang HOFKIRCHNER (The Institute for a Global Sustainable Information Society, Vienna, Austria),
- David J. KELLEY (AGI Laboratory, Seattle, WA, USA),
- Hans-Jörg KREOWSKI (University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany),
- Robert LOWE (Department of Applied IT, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden),
- Pedro MARIJUÁN (Independent Scholar, Zaragoza, Spain),
- Dénes NAGY (President, International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry, Budapest, Hungary),
- Yasuhiro SUZUKI (Graduate School of Informatics, Nagoya University at Nagoya, Nagoya, Japan)
- Vera VIANA (Faculty of Architecture, The University of Porto, Porto, Portugal),
- Kun WU (Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China),
- Yixin ZHONG (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China).
4. Contributing Conferences
- Theoretical and Foundational Problems in Information Studies (TFP)
- Information in Biologically Inspired Computing Architectures (BICA)
- Digital Humanism (Dighum)
- Symmetry, Structure, and Information (SIS)
- Morphological Computing of Cognition and Intelligence (MORCOM)
- Habits & Rituals (H&R)
- 13th International Workshop on Natural Computing (IWNC)
- Philosophy and Computing (APC)
- 5th International Conference on Philosophy of Information (ICPI)
- Global Forum for Artificial Intelligence (GFAI)
5. Sessions of Plenary Program
- Opening Panel Discussion “What is the SI in IS4SI?” moderated by Marcin J. Schroeder (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)
- Autopoietic machines: Going beyond the half-brained AI and Church-Turing Thesis presented by Rao Mikkilineni (Ageno School of Business, Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA, USA)
- Research in the area of Neosentience, Biomimetics, and Insight Engine 2.0 by Bill Seaman (Computational Media, Arts and Cultures; Emergence Lab, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA)
- Mind, Nature, and Artificial Magic by Rossella Lupacchini (University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy)
- Non-Diophantine arithmetics as a tool for formalizing information about nature and technology by Michele Caprio, Andrea Aveni, and Sayan Mukherjee (Duke University, Durham, NC, USA)
- Ontological information—information as a physical phenomenon by Roman Krzanowski (The Pontifical University of John Paul II, Krakow, Poland)
- Materialization and Idealization of Information by Mark Burgin (University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
- Paradigm Shift, an Urgent Issue for the Studies of Information Discipline by Yixin Zhong (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China)
- Structural Analysis of Information: Search for Methodology, by Marcin J. Schroeder (Global Learning Center, IEHE, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)
- Quality of information by Krassimir Markov (ITHEA, Sofia, Bulgaria)
- A QFT Approach to Data Streaming in Natural and Artificial Neural Networks by Gianfranco Basti (Faculty of Philosophy, Pontifical Lateran University, Vatican City) and Giuseppe Vitiello (Department of Physics “E. R. Caianiello”, University of Salerno, Fisciano (Salerno), Italy)
- Arithmetic loophole in Bell’s theorem: Overlooked threat to entangled-state quantum cryptography by Marek Czachor (Institute of Physics and Computer Science, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland)
- Advanced NLP procedures as premises for the reconstruction of the idea of knowledge by Rafal Maciag (Institute of Information Studies, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland)
- Toward a Unified Model of Cognitive Functions by Pei Weng (Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA)
- A Nested Hierarchy of Analyses: From Understanding Computing as a Great Scientific Domain, through Mapping AI and Cognitive Modeling and Architectures, to Developing a Common Model of Cognition by Paul Rosenbloom (USC Institute for Creative Technologies, University of Southern California, Playa Vista, CA, USA)
- The Development and Role of Symmetry in Ancient Scripts by Peter Z. Revesz (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA)
- Symmetry and Information: An odd couple (?) by Dénes Nagy (President, International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry, Budapest, Hungary)
- Antinomies of Symmetry and Information by Marcin J. Schroeder (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan)
- SIS Conference Panel Discussion moderated by Dénes Nagy & Marcin J. Schroeder
- Digital Humanism by Julian Nida-Rümelin (Munich University, Munich, Germany)
- Humanism Revisited by Rainer E. Zimmermann(Institute for Design Science Munich Germany/Clare Hall, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK)
- The Indeterminacy of Computation: Slutz, Shagrir, and the mind by B. Jack Copeland (University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand)
- Falling Up: The Paradox of Biological Complexity by Terrence W. Deacon (University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA)
- Almost disjoint union of Boolean algebras appeared in Punch Line by Yukio Pegio Gunji (Department of Intermedia Art and Science, School of Fundamental Science and Technology, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan)
- Why do not hatching alligator eggs ever produce chicks? by Aaron Sloman (School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK)
- Morphogenesis as a model for computation and basal cognition by Michael Levin (Tufts Center for Regenerative and Developmental Biology, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA)
- Cross-Embodied Cognitive Morphologies: Decentralizing Cognitive Computation Across Variable-Exchangeable, Distributed, or Updated Morphologies by Jordi Vallverdú (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)
- Designing Physical Reservoir Computers by Susan Stepney (University of York, York, UK)
- The Aims of AI: Artificial and Intelligent by Vincent C. Müller (TU/e & University of Leeds, Turing Institute, Leeds, UK)
- Cognition through Organic Computerized Bodies. The Eco-Cognitive Perspective by Lorenzo Magnani (University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy)
- Digital Consciousness and the Business of Sensing, Modeling, Analyzing, Predicting, and Taking Action by Rao Mikkilineni (Ageno School of Business, Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA, USA)
- On Leveraging Topological Features of Memristor Networks for Maximum Computing Capacity by Ignacio Del Amo and Zoran Konkoli (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden)
- Habits and Rituals as Stabilized Affordances and Pregnances: A Semiophysical Perspective by Lorenzo Magnani (University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy)
- A neurocomputational model of relative value processing: Habit modulation through differential outcome expectations by Robert Lowe (Department of Applied IT, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden)
- Capability and habit by Matthias Kramm (Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen, The Netherland)
- Collective Intentionality and the Transformation of Meaning During the Contemporary Rituals of Birth by Anna M. Hennessey (Visiting Scholar, Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA)
- Habitual Behavior: from I-intentionality to We- intentionality by Raffaela Giovagnoli (Faculty of Philosophy, Pontifical Lateran University, Vatican)
- Machines computing and learning? by Genaro J. Mart’ınez (Artificial Life Robotics Laboratory, Escuela Superiorde C’omputo, InstitutoPolit´ecnico Nacional, M´exico & Unconventional Computing Lab, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK)
- Computing with slime mould, plants, liquid marbles, and fungi by Andy Adamatzky (Unconventional Computing Lab, UWE, Bristol, UK)
- IWNC Panel Discussion moderated by Marcin J. Schroeder
- Exploring open-ended intelligence using patternist philosophy by Ben Goertzel (Singularty Net Foundation & OpenCog Foundation)
- The Artificial Sentience Behind Artificial Inventors by Stephen Thaler (Imagination Engines Inc.)
- Potential Impacts of Various Inventorship Requirements by Kate Gaudry (Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP)
- Panel Commentary by Peter Boltuc (University of Illinois, Springfield, USA & Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland)
- On Two Different Kinds of Computational Indeterminacy by Oron Shagrir, Philippos Papayannopoulos, and Nir Fresco (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel)
- Cognitive neurorobotic self in the shared world by Jun Tani (Cognitive Neurorobotics Research Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST), Okinawa, Japan)
- The Future of Anthroposociogenesis—Panhumanism, Anthroporelational Humanism and Digital Humanism by Wolfgang Hofkirchner (The Institute for a Global Sustainable Information Society, Vienna, Austria)
- The Philosophy—Science Interaction in Innovative Studies by Yixin Zhong (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China)
- Information and the Ontic-Epistemic Cut by Joseph Brenner (Independent Scholar, Switzerland)
- A Chase for God in the Human Exploration of Knowledge by Kun Wu, Kaiyan Da, Tianqi Wu (Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China)
- The Second Quantum Revolution and its Philosophical Meaning by Hongfang L. (School of Marxism University of Chinese Academy of Sciences)
- Information and Disinformation with their Boundaries and Interfaces by Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic (Chalmers University of Technology and the University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden)
- A Quantum Manifestation of Information by Tian’en Wang (Shanghai University, Shanghai, China)
- Computation and Eco-Cognitive Openness-Locked Strategies, Unlocked Strategies, and the Dissipative Brain by Lorenzo Magnani (University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy)
- In what sense should we talk about the perception of other minds? by Duoyi Fei (China University of Political Science and Law, China)
- An a Priori Theory of Meaning by Marcus Abundis (Bön Informatics, Aarau, Switzerland)
- Some Problems of Quantum Hermeneutics by Guolin Wu (Institute for Advanced Study in Science, Technology and Philosophy, South China University of Science and Engineering, Guangzhou, China)
- The fast-changing paradigm of war calls for great wisdom of peace by Lanbo Kang (Department of Political Science, Engineering University, Xi’an, China)
- Technologies, ICTs and Ambiguity by Tomáš Sigmund (Prague University of Economics and Business, Czech Republic)
- The Data Turn of Scientific Cognition and the Research Program of Philosophy of Data by Xinrong Huang (Research Center of Management Philosophy, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics Nanchang, China)
- Testimony and Social Evidence in the Covid Era by Raffaela Giovagnoli (Faculty of Philosophy, Pontifical Lateran University, Vatican)
- Developments of research on the Nature of Life from the Information Theory of Individuality by Dongping Fan, Wangjun Zhang (South China Normal University, Institute for Science, Technology and Society, Center for Systems Science and Systems Management Research Guangzhou, Guangdong, China)
- On Information Interaction between the Hierarchy of the Material System by Zhikang Wang (Sun Yat-sen University, China)
- Informational Aesthetics and the Digital Exploration of Renaissance Art by John Douglas Holgate (St. George Hospital, Sydney, Australia)
- Practice, Challenges and Countermeasures of Accelerating the Development of new Generation of Artificial Intelligence in Xinjiang by Hong Chen (Party School of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Committee of the Communist Party of China, Xinjiang, Urumqi, China)
- A Basic Problem in the Philosophy of Information Science: Redundant Modal Possible World Semantics by Xiaolong Wan (Research Center “Philosophy, Logic, and History of Science and Technology”, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China)
- Paradigm Revolution Creates the General Theory of AI by Yixin Zhong(Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China)
- Two Approaches to Artificial Intelligence by Mark Burgin (University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
- Intelligence Science Drives Innovation by Zhongzhi Shi (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China)
- On the Essential Difference Between the Intelligence Body and the Program Body by HeHuacan (Northwestern Polytechnical University, China) and He Zhitao (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Beijing, China)
- Human body networks mechanisms of the Covid-19 symptoms by Pin SUN, Rong LIU, Shui GUAN, Jun-Xiu GAO, and Chang-Kai SUN (Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China)
- The Development and Characterization of A New Generic Wearable Single Channel Ear-EEG Recording Platform by Rong Liu (School of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China)
- Brain Imitating Method for Social Computing—Illumination of Brain Information Processing System by Liqun Han (College of Artificial Intelligence, Beijing Technology and Business University, Beijing, China)
- Research and Prospects of Artificial Intelligence in Traditional Chinese Medicine by Zixin Shu, Ting Jia, Haoyu Tian, Dengying Yan, Yuxia Yang, and Xuezhong Zhou (Institute of Medical Intelligence, School of Computer and Information Technology, Jiaotong University, Beijing, China)
- A Framework of “Quantitative⨁Fixed Image⇒Qualitative” induced by contradiction generation and Meta Synthetic Wisdom Engineering by Jiali Feng (Information Engineering College, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, China)
- Paradox, Logic, and Property of Infinity by Jincheng Zhang (101 College Entrance Examination Continuation School of Guangde County, China)
- A Call for Paradigm Shift in Information Discipline by Zhong Yixin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China)
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Schroeder, M.J.; Burgin, M. 2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI). Proceedings 2022, 81, 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2022081001
Schroeder MJ, Burgin M. 2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI). Proceedings. 2022; 81(1):1. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2022081001
Chicago/Turabian StyleSchroeder, Marcin J., and Mark Burgin. 2022. "2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI)" Proceedings 81, no. 1: 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2022081001