Systems approaches to Information Ethics
Next week Tomáš Sigmund is guest at our center. He works as Assistant Professor at the Department of Systems Analysis that belongs to the Faculty of Informatics and Statistics at the University of Economics, Prague, and is preparing for his habilitation. Currently he is focusing on theoretical systems approaches towards information…
Transhumanism – Netizens – Information in Evolutionary Systems: Three sections at Gothenburg June 2017
The BCSSS Research Group on “Emergent systems, information and society” calls for papers and participation in three sections of the International Society for Information Studies Summit that will take place in Gothenburg from 12 to 16 June 2017. That Summit is the follow-up conference of the one that was held…
Visiting Students and Outgoing Scholars | Cooperation with the Jiaotong University, Xi’an
Thanks to the cooperation with the Jiaotong University in Xi’an and a scholarship from the Chinese Research Council the BCSSS welcomed a new Phd student in autumn 2016. Liang Wang will stay in Vienna for two years. During his research on the notion of “Information” the BCSSS will support him…
Gothenburg 2016 | Wolfgang Hofkirchner | Transdisciplinarity and Systems Thinking
Wolfgang Hofkirchner was invited to give a lecture in the course Transdisciplinarity Research Methods at the Department of Applied Information Technology, University of Gothenburg. At the same time, that lecture was part of the SCCIIL Interdisciplinary Center Research Seminar that connects to Chalmers University. SCCIIL is a center for interdisciplinary research in the intersection…
Die Qualität von Information – eine weise Gesellschaft? Wolfgang Hofkirchner über die Anforderungen der neuen Epoche
See the position on information, a wise society and the requirements of our age in: Karriere.DiePresse.com, Kolumne “Management im Kopf”, Folge 23, Komplexität meistern, von Maria Pruckner, published on 31. 10. 2016 (in German). Link
“Meaning“ did not emerge like a bolt from the blue
Recent literature suggests the appearance of information that is coupled to significance not only with the advent of biotic agents (“meaning” in living systems) but already with prebiotic environments, namely, with the existence of agents (non-living, physical systems) that – according to the fourth law of thermodynamics after Stuart Kaufmann – …
Hanover 2016 | Session | Relationality and Information in Leibniz
Members of the joint group Emergent systems, information and society were speakers at a session of the 10th International Leibniz Congress held in Hanover, Germany, during the week from 18 to 22 July 2016. The session was convoked by BCSSS Scientific Council Member Rainer E. Zimmermann and dedicated to Relationality and…
Symmetry Festival 2016
Symmetry Festival 2016 Arts & Science Programs. General Relativity 100! 18th – 22nd July 2016 The Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science is pleased to be this year’s cooperation partner of the World’s largest multidisciplinary Conference & Art Festival in Symmetry Studies organized by the Symmetrion, under the…
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