Western and Eastern Thought Traditions : A Necessary Conjunction for
Exploring the Nature of Mind and Life
THE Necessary Conjunction
of Western and Eastern
Thought Traditions for
Exploring the Nature
of Mind and Life
A Necessary
Conjunction of the Western and Eastern Thought Traditions for Exploring
the
Nature of Mind and Life
Special issue on Integral Biomathics:
Editors: Tom
Blundell and Denis Noble
Guest Editors (GE): Plamen L. Simeonov, Arran Gare, Koichiro Matsuno, Abir U. Igamberdiev, Alex Hankey
Guest Editors (GE): Plamen L. Simeonov, Arran Gare, Koichiro Matsuno, Abir U. Igamberdiev, Alex Hankey
Timeline:
Deadline for abstracts: 1st October 2016
Deadline for submitting papers: 1st May, 2017
Deadline for submitting revised papers: 1st August, 2017
Final deadline for GE’s to accept all papers: 1st October, 2017
Publication deadline: November/December 2017
Deadline for submitting papers: 1st May, 2017
Deadline for submitting revised papers: 1st August, 2017
Final deadline for GE’s to accept all papers: 1st October, 2017
Publication deadline: November/December 2017
Scope
This special journal issue continues the
tradition of the previous three volumes of the series on Integral Biomathics in
2015, 2013 and 2012 ([1, 2, 3]), which originated from the 2011 EC FP7
collaboration initiative INBIOSA [4] (www.inbiosa.eu) and a 2010 programme
vision paper [5] and its 2013 and 2015 updates [6, 7].
The project is now carried forward as a
periodic JPBMB focused report made possible by the generous support of Prof.
Denis Noble, FRS and the members of our worldwide multidisciplinary research
community.
This time we take on an essential aspect of
our discourse that was touched upon in some of the previous contributions, but
still has not been considered sufficiently in contemporary biomathematical and
biocomputational models.
We experience a global crisis in many aspects
of science and philosophy today [5, 8-15]. Therefore, the intention of this
volume is to put the emphasis on the connection between the Eastern and Western
thought traditions because we consider this relation and exchange as central
and leading elements of scientific development.
Well-known examples in this respect are the
Einstein-Tagore and Bohm-Krishnamurthi discussions, as well as Capra’s book
“The Tao of Physics”. But now we wish to explore how life sciences can be
advanced by Eastern thought.
Eastern and Western approaches to knowledge are
opposite:
1.- The West demands primary emphasis on
objective (reproducible) experiments to test research hypotheses specified in
crisp and logically sound (causal) language.
2.- The East holds that our language employed
for addressing possible implications latent in the reported experiments may
allow for an infusion of something [vague]1.
The Eastern tradition implies methods to
acquiring knowledge such as the practices of Taoism (Wu Wei) and Buddhism
(Sahaja) that have not been systematically studied in the West.
This special issue on Integral Biomathics
intends to elucidate the complementation between the Eastern and Western paths
to exploration, and show how the foundations of a unified approach to knowledge
and science can be rigorously formulated to accommodate both approaches.
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Are welcome original contributions exploring
the borderlines between Eastern philosophy and cognitive science, neuroscience,
biology, ecological/ environmental science, biosemiotics, autopoiesis,
second-order cybernetics, artificial intelligence, pure mathematics and
computation, chaos and complexity science. They can be developed along the
lines of thought of both Eastern and Western philosophical traditions in
exploring the nature of mind and life.
Note to Authors
Manuscripts and their abstracts should be written in clear, straightforward language suitable for an interdisciplinary readership. The Guest Editors are happy to discuss the substance of papers with authors, but, since we do not have copy editors for our Special Issue, we ask authors to assume responsibility for their own copy editing (spelling, grammatical construction, consistency, etc.).
Manuscripts and their abstracts should be written in clear, straightforward language suitable for an interdisciplinary readership. The Guest Editors are happy to discuss the substance of papers with authors, but, since we do not have copy editors for our Special Issue, we ask authors to assume responsibility for their own copy editing (spelling, grammatical construction, consistency, etc.).
Abstracts should be submitted by October 1st,
and should not exceed 400 words.
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Organization
For more information about the project please contact: Plamen L.
Simeonov, email: plamen@simeio.org
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