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Some reflections about Prof. Sedlak
by
Zbigniew William Wolkowski(Paris)
Before meeting Sedlak, I had obtained a habilitation in physical sciences at the University of Paris in 1971. Since then, in 1998, I obtained another habilitation at The University of Paris X - Nanterre, in letters and humanities (specialty: history of the contemporary world), on the subject: the evolution of certain physical, mathematical and philosophical concepts in the life sciences in the 20th century.
Professor Sedlak is clearly among the ten persons who have most influenced my intellectual quest. We met some twenty five years ago, when attending a conference on philosophy in Germany. At that time I was involved in publishing the Proceedings of the Symposium on Interaction of non-ionizing
EM radiations with living systems, held at Versailles in May 1979, with A. Szent-Györgyi as president. We presented two papers: "On the utility of bioelectronics and of the bioplasma concept in the study of biological terrain and its equilibrium", and another one devoted to "The plasmic mechanism of the reception of EM radiation".
Subsequent discussions with Sedlak, and the study of his writings helped me to develop a transdisciplinary approach to biological systems, and to search for new conceptual tools. In April 1983, I created a seminar at postdoctoral level, unprecedented at any European University. It was entitled "Synergy and Coherence in Biological Systems". Over one hundred eminent scientists have participated in this research project, and several volumes of proceedings have been published (for reference see: the Library of Congress Catalog). In 1983, I introduced the phoron concept (or information-carrying field, a two-sided, physical and cybernetic tool), in an attempt to decrease the incompleteness of the scientific exploration of living systems. This concept has since found applications in the study of hierarchical interactions in biophysics, medicine and agriculture.
My research, again stimulated by the philosophical underpinnings of the writings of Sedlak, encouraged me to convene and publish the First International Symposium on Gödel's Theorems in Paris in May 1991 (http://www.ccr.jussieu.fr/godel) a transdisciplinary investigation of what is being confirmed as one of the most seminal theorems of the 20th century.
The new opportunities offered by transdisciplinary cybersymposia (http://www.ccr.jussieu.fr/scbs/) can now be applied in different directions: for the study of Curies' contribution to world knowledge, {to niech będzie linkiem do} www.ccr.jussieu.fr/curie.100 Gödel's theorems, synergy, hierarchy, coherence and meaning, (http://www.ccr.jussieu.fr/h.m.c.) but also to cultural Adam Mickiewicz (http://www.ccr.jussieu.fr/mickiewicz.200) , Juliusz Słowacki (http://www.chez.com/slowacki), Cyprian K. Norwid (http://www.multimania.com/norwid) as well as transcultural topics (Frédéric Chopin (http://pages.infinit.net/chopinfr/). I invite readers to visit these cyberfora, and discover for themselves, with gratitude, the multiple and subtle consequences of our meeting with Wlodzimierz Sedlak a quarter of a century ago.
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