World (Virtual) Congress

on

RELATIONISM

PLACE:

WORLD WIDE WEB @ RELATIONAL SYSTEMS.NET

FORMAT:

PRE-ARRANGED ONGOING RECORDED CONFERENCE CALLS WTH NEAR REAL-TIME RE-DISTRIBUTION OF THE VOICE RECORD TRANSCRIBED TO TEXT, SUPPORTED AS NEEDED BY VARIOUS OF IM'S, EMAILS, CHATS, BLOGS, AND THE LIKE, ALL LEADING TO PERIODIC AUDIO-VIDEO WEBCASTS RELATING DISTINGUISHING MARKS IN RELATIONAL SYSTEMS RESEARCH

DATE:

BEGINNING PLANNING, SUMMER 2004

HOST:

AHAINSTITUTE

CO-SPONSORS:

AS IT IS INc. and THE AUTOGNOMICS INSTITUTE, INC.

ORGANIZERS:

DEJON HAMANN AND JON RAY HAMANN.

SELECTED (By JR Hamann) POTENTIAL RESEARCH FOCI FOR INITIATING THE CONGRESS:

MAE-WAN HO, TOWARDS A NEW ETHIC OF SCIENCE

GREGORY CAJETE, NATIVE SCIENCE: NATURAL LAWS OF INTERDEPENDENCE

EDWINA TABORSKY, DYNAMICS OF THE INFORMATIONAL INTERFACE

ROBERT L. FRY, MAXIMUM ENTROPY AND BAYESIAN METHODS and NEURAL MECHANICS

RANDALL R. DIPERT, THE MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURE OF THE WORLD:
                                 THE WORLD AS GRAPH

RODOLPHE GASCHE, OF MINIMAL THINGS: STUDIES ON THE NOTION OF RELATION

THEME:

COMPARATIVE/CONTRASTUAL EXAMINATION OF "RELATIONALISM VS. RELATIONISM" (Jon Ray Hamann http://www.relationalsystems.net//RImageS.htm --"CREATING THE WHOLE: A Note on the Primacy of Relation")

NOTE: The word "RELATIONISM" is used as a convenience by the author to distinguish his treatment of "RELATIONAL SYSTEMS" from the millennia-old and varied treatments most generally referred to under the term "RELATIONALISM". The primary distinction is that in the latter the notion of RELATION seems foundationally definitionally constrained by the notion of SYSTEM whereas in the former (RELATIONISM or RELATIONAL SYSTEMS as herein explicated) the notion of RELATION depends ontologically on both the notions of SYSTEM and RELATION, but uniquely with the emphasis on the latter.