First Annual Conference on Integral Biomathics, Stirling, UK
29 August 2011 - 29 August 2011
United Kingdom
The First Annual Conference on Integral Biomathics will take place from 29 to 31 August 2011 in Stirling, UK.
With the rise of information technology in recent years, there seems to be a belief that computer systems can emulate anything (intelligence, awareness, consciousness), and that they can be used to simulate any system, including both living and non-living systems.
Underlying this view is a belief in the indefinite applicability of deterministic mathematical approaches. This says that digital computers can approximate deterministic mathematics to any required degree of precision, so that a philosophy of Newtonian science which has its roots in Pythagorean mathematics and Aristotelian physics seems to imply enormous applicability of digital computer based approaches, all the way through to the understanding of life and consciousness itself.
Organised by the EU-funded 'Integral biomathics support action' (Inbiosa) project, the conference programme will include presentations, poster sessions and Pecha-Kucha talks. Topics are set to include:
- transdisciplinary (unifying living and non-living) approaches to information processing;
- molecular, proteinand cellular-based information processing;
- mathematical approaches to living/non-living systems and biocomputation;
- modeling liveness, intelligence and consciousness;
- traversing life: from bits to ontologies and theories;
- natural philosophy and systems science: on life.
The project is investigating the imperatives of mathematics and computation by comprehending the fundamental principles of emergence, development and evolution in biology. The goal will be to create a set of novel mathematical formalisms capable of addressing the multiple facets of an integral model and a general theory of biocomputation within an adequate frame of relevance.For further information, please visit: http://www.inbiosa.eu/en/Workshops-And-Conferences-View.html?article=acib-11(opens in new window)
With the rise of information technology in recent years, there seems to be a belief that computer systems can emulate anything (intelligence, awareness, consciousness), and that they can be used to simulate any system, including both living and non-living systems.
Underlying this view is a belief in the indefinite applicability of deterministic mathematical approaches. This says that digital computers can approximate deterministic mathematics to any required degree of precision, so that a philosophy of Newtonian science which has its roots in Pythagorean mathematics and Aristotelian physics seems to imply enormous applicability of digital computer based approaches, all the way through to the understanding of life and consciousness itself.
Organised by the EU-funded 'Integral biomathics support action' (Inbiosa) project, the conference programme will include presentations, poster sessions and Pecha-Kucha talks. Topics are set to include:
- transdisciplinary (unifying living and non-living) approaches to information processing;
- molecular, proteinand cellular-based information processing;
- mathematical approaches to living/non-living systems and biocomputation;
- modeling liveness, intelligence and consciousness;
- traversing life: from bits to ontologies and theories;
- natural philosophy and systems science: on life.
The project is investigating the imperatives of mathematics and computation by comprehending the fundamental principles of emergence, development and evolution in biology. The goal will be to create a set of novel mathematical formalisms capable of addressing the multiple facets of an integral model and a general theory of biocomputation within an adequate frame of relevance.For further information, please visit: http://www.inbiosa.eu/en/Workshops-And-Conferences-View.html?article=acib-11(opens in new window)