http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=369 Publications of Auteurs Jerry LR Chandler fr 0 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3091 This communication was an introduction lecture of our Symposium about Science of Consciousness. We show that a pertinent study of human consciousness should be a pluri-disciplinary approach through Biochemistry, Biology, Biosemiotics, Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.), Language and Logic, Nanochemistry, Neurochemistry, Physics, Psychology. We ask many questions from relevant perspectives to scientific researchers. Fri, 06 Sep 2024 16:09:19 +0200 Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:17:38 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=3091 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2408 This article is devoted to the ecological problems of our planet and the relationships between Life, Humanity and Earth. The three parts of the present appeal successively deal with the following parts of the tragedy: (i) the technological and economical aspects; (ii) the social and philosophical implications; (iii) the moral and spiritual messages. A new way of thinking about identification of correct behavior and management that would allow the living community to evolve towards a optimum future is sketched and the whole of the scientific community is invited to contribute out of conflicts of interest to fill the appeal with the wisdom that Science should be able to bestow to humanity, in conjunction with Arts and Philosophy whose contribution is emphasized. Tue, 20 Aug 2024 10:14:16 +0200 Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:51:17 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=2408 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=363 A theory of organization of complexity was constructed in order to create a common semiotic lineage among the diverse symbol systems used by various disciplines (Chandler, t996, L997). The foundations of the theory are developed from observations on the nonlinear dynamics of organisms within ecoments -- ecoments being defined as the immediate surroundings of one hierarchical degree of an emergent system. Each system (sub-system, sub-sub-system ... ) is assigned four primitives attributes (closure, conformation, concatenation and cyclicity) which are subject to scaling and semiotic constraints. In principle, each of these four terms is enumerable for a local system. Degrees of organization (symbolized as Oo) are composed from lesser organized systems to higher organized systems in terms of the enumeration of the four primitives. The emergent organizations are enumerated: 1,2,3, ... The patterns of organization at any particular level, Oo, are composed from patterns at other levels. Thus, no particular science or philosophy is assigned a privileged role in the unfolding of the dynamics. Mathematically, the organized systems are composed under the scientific representations of categories as developed in Chandler, 1991, and Ehresmann and Vanbremeersch 1987, 1997. Categorical objects have the unique mathematical characteristic of creating a 'logical shell' for other classes of mathematical structures. (see S. Mac Lane, Mathematics, Form and Structure, 1986.) This 'logical shell' character of category theory is used here to construct hierarchical relationships between scientific observations and mathematical structures. This notation parallels natural history and allows the facile accounting of the molecular biological mechanisms within a living system. Implications of this theory of natural organization for the design of artifrcial hierarchical systems arc apparent. Wed, 26 Jun 2024 11:41:38 +0200 Fri, 28 Jun 2024 16:58:07 +0200 http://popups.lib.uliege.be/1373-5411/index.php?id=363