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by csaba pleh

Kedves Kognitiv Nepek ! Mig mi itt az eletet szervezzuk, csendben megjelent Kampis gyorgz es Kavetzky Peter veretes forditasaban: Danile Dennett: Darwin veszelyes ideaja. Typotex. Igen olcso, csak 266 Forint. E helyett azonban aki elore kp. kifizet Kurgyis kolleganak 2000 Ft-ot az annyiert kapja. kurgyis(a)izabell.elte.hu levelcimen lehet erdeklodni, egyebkent izabella 46, III. e., 311 Ja, es gondolom addigra Jozsi azt is kifundalja, hogy mekkora kedvezmenyt ad az Osiris a szinten most megjeklent masik Dennettre: Az intencionalitas filozofiaja. Bolti ara: 1120 Ft. Egyedi valogatas, nem azonos az Intentional Stance konyvvel, bar atfedesek vannak. Mindenkit udvozlok CsabaCsaba Pleh associate professor Dept General Psychology Eotvos Lorand U Budapest 64 P.O. Box 4 Hungary 1378 T.: 36 13423130 Fax: 36 13423109 Home: 36 23453933

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Speci: Tanulorendszerek I

by Andras Lorincz

Kedves Erdeklodok! Az Informatika Tanszekcsoport eloadasai kereteben meghirdetesre kerul a kovetkezo specialkollegium: TANULORENDSZEREK I. Bevezetes a megerositeses tanulas (RL) elmeletebe es gyakorlataba Eloado: Lorincz Andras (http://iserv.iki.kfki.hu/New/pub.html) Jelentkezes: alorincz(a)mail.matav.hu 1. Bevezetes (RL helye a tanulasi algoritmusok kozott, HUMAN SZINTU EREDMENYEK sakkban, backgammonban, szabalyozasban) 2. Kiertekelo visszacsatolas 3. Az RL problema (Az ugynok-kornyezet interface, Celok es jutalmak, Markov dontesi folyamatok, Ertekfuggveny, Optimalis ertekfuggveny) 4. Dinamikus programozas (Politika kiertekelese, Politika javitasa, Politika iteralasa, Ertek iteracio, Altalanositott politika-iteracio) 5. Monte Carlo modszerek 6. Konnekcionista eszkozok (Perceptron es a Delta-szabaly, Tobbretegu perceptron es a visszaterjeszteses tanulas, Informaciot orzo ritka reprezentacio) 7. Idodifferenciak (TD) modszere (Veges allapotter problemaja, TD predikcio, a TD modszerek elonyei, Ritka reprezentacio es linearis approximacio) 8. Alkalmazasok (TD-gammon, Liftrendszer, TD-sakk, Folytonos feladatok) 9. Modularis RL (A "kosarlabdazo" Khepera, Fogalomalkotas - allapotabsztrakcio) 10. Kitekintes: tanulorendszerek II (Biologiai relevancia, Neuroprotezis vakoknak es suketeknek, Mesterseges rendszerek IQ-ja?) AJANLOTT: programozo matematikusoknak, matematikusoknak, fizikusoknak, vegyeszeknek. Szukseges: alapfoku linearis algebra es alapfoku valoszinusegszamitasi ismeretek Az eloadassorozat alapjat R.S. Sutton es A.G. Barto "Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction" (Bradford Book, MIT Press, Cambridge 1998) konyve kepezi. A konyv kivonatos valtozata elerheto Sutton honlapjan (http://www-anw.cs.umass.edu/~rich/) Udvozlettel, Lorincz Andras

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Rose on Biology/Freedom: BBS Call for Book Reviewers

by Stevan Harnad

Below is the abstract of the Precis of a book that will shortly be circulated for Multiple Book Review in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS): BIOLOGY, FREEDOM, DETERMINISM PRECIS FOR BBS MULTIPLE REVIEW by Steven Rose http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/bbs.rose.html or ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/.WWW/bbs.rose.html BBS is an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Reviewers must be BBS Associates or nominated by a BBS Associate. To be considered as a reviewer for this book, to suggest other appropriate reviewers, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please send EMAIL to: bbs(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk or write to: Behavioral and Brain Sciences Department of Psychology University of Southampton Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/ http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/ ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/ ftp://ftp.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/bbs/ gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals If you are not a BBS Associate, please send your CV and the name of a BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar with your work. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, please give some indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring your areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a commentator. An electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection with a WWW browser, anonymous ftp or gopher according to the instructions that follow after the abstract. Please note that it is the book, not the Precis, that is to be reviewed. It would be helpful if you indicated in your reply whether you already have the book or would require a copy. ____________________________________________________________________ LIFELINES: BIOLOGY, FREEDOM, DETERMINISM PRECIS FOR BBS MULTIPLE REVIEW Steven Rose Professor of Biology and Director of the Brain and Behaviour Research Group Open University Milton Keynes MK7 6AA UK s.p.r.rose(a)open.ac.uk KEYWORDS: Neurogenetics, Homeodynamics; evolutionary theory, reductionism, ultra-Darwinism, autopoiesis; Metabolic webs, self-organisation; developmental trajectories; Human behaviour ABSTRACT: There are many ways of describing and explaining the properties of living systems; causal, functional and reductive accounts are all necessary, but no one has primacy. The history of biology as a discipline has given excessive authority to reductionism, which collapses higher level accounts, such as social or behavioural, into molecular ones. Such reductionism becomes crudely ideological when applied to the human condition with its claims for genes 'for' everything from sexual orientation to compulsive shopping. The current enthusiasm for genetic and ultraDarwinist accounts, with their selfish gene metaphors for living processes misunderstand both the phenomena of development and the interactive role that DNA and the fluid genome play in the cellular orchestra. DNA is not a blueprint, and the four dimensions of life (three of space, one of time) cannot be read off from its one-dimensional strand. Both developmental and evolutionary processes are more than merely instructive or selective; the organism constructs itself, a process known as autopoiesis, through a lifeline trajectory. Because organisms are thermodynamically open systems, living processes are homeodynamic, not homeostatic. The self-organising membrane-bound and energy-utilising metabolic web of the cell must have evolved prior to so-called naked replicators. Evolution is constrained by physics, chemistry and structure; not all change is powered by natural selection, and not all phenotypes are adaptive. Finally, therefore, living processes are radically indeterminate; we, like but to an even greater degree than all other living organisms, make our own future, though in circumstances not of our own choosing. -------------------------------------------------------------- To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable from the World Wide Web or by anonymous ftp or gopher from the US or UK BBS Archive. Ftp instructions follow below. Please do not prepare a commentary on this draft. Just let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant expertise you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the article. The URLs you can use to get to the BBS Archive: http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/ http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/bbs.rose.html ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/bbs.rose ftp://ftp.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/bbs/Archive/bbs.rose gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals To retrieve a file by ftp from an Internet site, type either: ftp ftp.princeton.edu or ftp 128.112.128.1 When you are asked for your login, type: anonymous Enter password as queried (your password is your actual userid: yourlogin(a)yourhost.whatever.whatever - be sure to include the "@") cd /pub/harnad/BBS To show the available files, type: ls Next, retrieve the file you want with (for example): get bbs.rose When you have the file(s) you want, type: quit

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Harnish

by csaba pleh

Figyelem ! Michael Harnish oraja csutortokon 13 orakor lesz. Talalkozas: 316-os szobanal, Izabella utca 46. Pleh Csaba Csaba Pleh associate professor Dept General Psychology Eotvos Lorand U Budapest 64 P.O. Box 4 Hungary 1378 T.: 36 13423130 Fax: 36 13423109 Home: 36 23453933

27 years, 9 months

ICON 7

by Dr. Czigler Istvan

Kedves Kollegak! 1999 junius 27 es julius 3 kozott rendezzuk Budapesten az ICON 7 (International Conference on Cognitive Neuroscience) konferenciat. A konferenciasorozat azokat a szakembereket gyujti ossze, akik neurofiziologiai modszereket alkalmaznak megismeresi folyamtok tanulmanyozasara. A konferenciaval kapcsolatban szivesen adunk tovabbi felvilagositast. Elozetes regisztracios lehetosegek: http://www.cogpsyphy.hu/icon/prereg.html WWW hozzaferes hianyaban az icon(a)cogpsyphy.hu cimre irt levelre valaszkent kuldunk regisztracios urlapot, melyet e-mail-en kerunk visszakuldeni. Czigler Istvan, Csepe Valeria, Karmos Gyorgy, Molnar Mark es Winkler Istvan Az ICON 7 szervezoi -- Istvan Czigler PhD DSc Institute for Psychology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Mail: P.O.Box 398 H-1394 Budapest, Hungary Phone: (36-1) 1533 244 Fax: (36-1) 2692 972 e-mail: czigler(a)CogPsyPhy.hu

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Logika doktori orak

by Andras Mate

A Filozofia Doktoriskola logika programtagozatanak orai az oszi felevben: Bevezetes a kategoriaelmeletbe Sain Ildiko tud. fmts. (sain(a)math-inst.hu, MTA Mat. Kut. Int., 1364 Bp. Pf. 127) A matematika hagyomanyos megalapozasa arra koncentralt, hogy egyaltalan korrekt megalapozas letrejojjon. A kategoriaelmeleti alapozas viszont, szellemeben, sokkal inkabb filozofiailag motivalt. Az utobbinal az uralkodo kerdesfelteves az, hogy ``jo fogalmat hasznalunk-e''. A kategoriaelmelet valamilyen foku ismerete nelkulozhetetlen annak, aki foglalkozni kivan a matematika filozofiai kerdeseivel. Megemlitjuk meg, hogy mivel a strukturalizmus mint tudomanyfilozofiai iranyzat a kategoriaelmeletre epul, a strukturalizmus irant erdeklodoknek is ajanljuk a kategoriaelmelet tanulmanyozasat. Matematikafilozofia szeminarium Charles Parsons vendegprofesszor Mate Andras docens A felev temaja a matematika strukturalista filozofiaja. Ez az iranyzat, bar fontos elozmenyei vannak, az utobbi tiz evben bontakozott ki. Viszonylag kevesse fugg ossze a Bourbaki-kor korabbi, azonos cimke alatt futo elkepzeleseivel. Lenyege az, hogy a matematika objektumait es a veluk kapcsolatos ontologiai kerdeseket masodlagosaknak tekinti, azt allitvan, hogy ilyen objektumokra kizarolag valamilyen struktura kontextusaban van ertelme hivatkozni, a matematika sajatossaga pedig eppen ezeknek a strukturaknak a tanulmanyozasa. A strukturalizmussal osszefuggesben kerult eloterbe az a lehetoseg, hogy a matematika alapjainak kutatasaban ne a halmazelmelet, hanem a kategoriaelmelet legyen a kiindulopont. A ket kurzus kozos oramegbeszelese: szept. 10 du. 2., Bolcseszkar Logika tanszek Pesti B. u. 1. A ep. felem. 24. Erdeklodoknek keresre kuldok teljesebb kurzusleirast. mate andras ============================================================================== Andras Mate CSc, assoc. prof. -- Dept. of Symbolic Logic Lorand Eotvos University Budapest, Faculty of Arts and Humanities H-1364 Budapest, POB 107 Phone: (36 1) 266 9100/5328 -- TAD/Fax: (36 1) 266 41 95 e-mail:mate@isis.elte.hu Home: H-1119 Budapest, Nandorfehervar koz 11 / Phone: (36 1) 204 0489

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Kampis orai, PhD diakok, etc.

by Gergely Csibra

Rejected message: sent to koglist(a)cogpsyphy.hu by GK(a)CAESAR.ELTE.HU follows. Reason for rejection: sender not subscribed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kedves Kollegak, annak akit illet> Tanszekunk a TTK Lagymanyosi campusara koltozott, ahol folyik az infrastruktura kiepitese. Lopas miatt hatrahagyott szerverunk is leszakadt, ezt kobaltaval vesem bele az eterbe. Ha le tudom szedni a cimlistaimat valahonnan, akkor irok direk is, egyelore kulon ertesites helyett> minden oram, megbeszelesem etc. szept 21. utan kezdodik ill. lesz, addig surgos esetben tel. 209 0555/6688 titkarno, mas telefon nincs, vagz otthon 29 na, 200 9635, nincs delete . Ez egyebkent a TTK hivatalos kezdesi ideje az erintett egysegek reszere, tehat ne tessek aggodni, nem lustasag vagy mas egyeni akvcio ez. Elnezest a formatlan elvelert, aki tudja adja at etc udv kgy -- Gergely Csibra Medical Research Council Research Scientist Cognitive Development Unit g.csibra(a)cdu.ucl.ac.uk 4 Taviton Street tel: (44) 171 387 4692 London WC1H 0BT fax: (44) 171 383 0398 United Kingdom As of October 1, 1998: Centre for Brain & Cognitive Development Department of Psychology Birkbeck College 32 Torrington Square London WC1E 7HX United Kingdom

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ELTE kognitiv doktori orak, 1998 osz

by csaba pleh

Kedves Ifjusdag es erdeklodok ! Az ELTE Kognitiv Doktori alprogrammjaiban nehany kozerdeklodser is aszonmt tarthato ora (mas is van ez most ami a kezemben van). A nyelv neuropszichologiaja. Szamos eloadoval. Keressetek Konya Anikot Michael Harnish: Introduction to cognition. csutortok, 13 - 14H30. talalkozo Pleh Csaba szobajanal, elso ora: 1998. szeptember 10. Angol nyelven, egyedi tematikaval. Konya Aniko: Narrativ kutatas. megbesz. szerint. Gergely Gyorgy: Erzelem es megismeres. Megbesz. szerint. Pleh Csaba: A reprezentacio fogalmi kerdesei. hetfo 4-6, 201. Udv PlehCsaba Pleh associate professor Dept General Psychology Eotvos Lorand U Budapest 64 P.O. Box 4 Hungary 1378 T.: 36 13423130 Fax: 36 13423109 Home: 36 23453933

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Barsalou on Perceptual Symbol Systems: BBS Call for Commentary

by Stevan Harnad

Below is the abstract of a forthcoming BBS target article on: PERCEPTUAL SYMBOL SYSTEMS by Lawrence W. Barsalou This article has been accepted for publication in Behavioral and Brain Sciences (BBS), an international, interdisciplinary journal providing Open Peer Commentary on important and controversial current research in the biobehavioral and cognitive sciences. Commentators must be BBS Associates or nominated by a BBS Associate. To be considered as a commentator for this article, to suggest other appropriate commentators, or for information about how to become a BBS Associate, please send EMAIL to: bbs(a)cogsci.soton.ac.uk or write to: Behavioral and Brain Sciences Department of Psychology University of Southampton Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ UNITED KINGDOM http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/ http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/ ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/ ftp://ftp.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/bbs/ gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals If you are not a BBS Associate, please send your CV and the name of a BBS Associate (there are currently over 10,000 worldwide) who is familiar with your work. All past BBS authors, referees and commentators are eligible to become BBS Associates. To help us put together a balanced list of commentators, please give some indication of the aspects of the topic on which you would bring your areas of expertise to bear if you were selected as a commentator. An electronic draft of the full text is available for inspection with a WWW browser, anonymous ftp or gopher according to the instructions that follow after the abstract. ____________________________________________________________________ PERCEPTUAL SYMBOL SYSTEMS Lawrence W. Barsalou Department of Psychology Emory University Atlanta, GA 30322 http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~barsalou/ barsalou(a)emory.edu KEYWORDS: analogue processing, categories, concepts, frames, imagery, images, knowledge, perception, representation, sensory-motor representations, simulation, symbol grounding, symbol systems ABSTRACT: Prior to the twentieth century, theories of knowledge were inherently perceptual. Since then, developments in logic, statistics, and programming languages have inspired amodal theories that rest on principles fundamentally different from those underlying perception. In addition, perceptual approaches have become widely viewed as untenable, because they are assumed to implement recording systems, not conceptual systems. A perceptual theory of knowledge is developed here in the contexts of current cognitive science and neuroscience. During perceptual experience, association areas in the brain capture bottom-up patterns of activation in sensory-motor areas. Later, in a top-down manner, association areas partially reactivate sensory-motor areas to implement perceptual symbols. The storage and reactivation of perceptual symbols operates at the level of perceptual components--not at the level of holistic perceptual experiences. Through the use of selective attention, schematic representations of perceptual components are extracted from experience and stored in memory (e.g., individual memories of green, purr, hot). As memories of the same component become organized around a common frame, they implement a simulator that produces limitless simulations of the component (e.g., simulations of purr). Not only do such simulators develop for aspects of sensory experience, they also develop for aspects of proprioception (e.g., lift, run) and for introspection (e.g., compare, memory, happy, hungry). Once established, these simulators implement a basic conceptual system that represents types, supports categorization, and produces categorical inferences. These simulators further support productivity, propositions, and abstract concepts, thereby implementing a fully functional conceptual system. Productivity results from integrating simulators combinatorially and recursively to produce complex simulations. Propositions result from binding simulators to perceived individuals to represent type-token relations. Abstract concepts are grounded in complex simulations of combined physical and introspective events. Thus, a perceptual theory of knowledge can implement a fully functional conceptual system while avoiding what it is becoming increasingly apparent would be problems for amodal symbol systems. Implications for cognition, neuroscience, evolution, development, and artificial intelligence are explored. -------------------------------------------------------------- To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable from the World Wide Web or by anonymous ftp or gopher from the US or UK BBS Archive. Ftp instructions follow below. Please do not prepare a commentary on this draft. Just let us know, after having inspected it, what relevant expertise you feel you would bring to bear on what aspect of the article. The URLs you can use to get to the BBS Archive: http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/bbs/ http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/bbs/Archive/bbs.barsalou.html ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/BBS/bbs.barsalou ftp://ftp.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/pub/bbs/Archive/bbs.barsalou gopher://gopher.princeton.edu:70/11/.libraries/.pujournals To retrieve a file by ftp from an Internet site, type either: ftp ftp.princeton.edu or ftp 128.112.128.1 When you are asked for your login, type: anonymous Enter password as queried (your password is your actual userid: yourlogin(a)yourhost.whatever.whatever - be sure to include the "@") cd /pub/harnad/BBS To show the available files, type: ls Next, retrieve the file you want with (for example): get bbs.barsalou When you have the file(s) you want, type: quit

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American Scientist E-Publishing Debate: Call for Participation

by Stevan Harnad

AMERICAN SCIENTIST, published by SIGMA XI, the Scientific Research Society invites you to contribute to an On-Line Forum On: Free Internet Access to Traditional Journals Walker, T.J. (1998) American Scientist 86(5) http://www.amsci.org/amsci/articles/98articles/walker.html Moderated by: Stevan Harnad Cognitive Sciences Center Department of Electronics and Computer Science Southampton University Highfield, Southampton SO17 1BJ United Kingdom harnad(a)soton.ac.uk harnad(a)princeton.edu http://www.princeton.edu/~harnad/intpub.html http://cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/intpub.ht Subscribe to: listserv(a)amsci.org Send message: subscribe september-forum Or link to: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/september-forum.html After subscribing send messages to: september-forum(a)amsci-forum.amsci.org Best wishes, Stevan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Moderator's Introduction: (Please don't just read this, but the Walker target article too.) FOR WHOM THE GATE TOLLS? FREEING THE ON-LINE-ONLY REFEREED JOURNAL LITERATURE Stevan Harnad Southampton University It is a foregone conclusion that the refereed journal corpus will all soon be available on-line. The question is: Will access to it have to continue to be blocked by financial firewalls as in the era of paper publication? This is not just a matter of marginal conveniences or utopian details: The difference between free and fee-based access is the difference between a seamless, completely interlinked learned literature at the fingertips of every scholar and scientist in the world and a jerry-rigged agglomeration of toll-ridden proprietary packages -- the on-line counterparts of exactly what we have now in the trade world of scholarly paper journals, funded through Subscriptions, Site-Licenses and Pay-Per-View (tear-sheets, photocopy, interlibrary loan) (S/SL/PPV) tolls, And for the author, the difference is even greater than for the reader, for it is the difference between free versus toll-gated access to one's work, work that one has submitted to the journal for free with the express wish of having it certified and then made public. What will the true cost of certification and publication be once everything is on-line-only? In other words, what will be the cost of quality control for content (refereeing/editing) and form (copy-editing/mark-up) once all expenses associated with paper production are gone? Paper publishers say they will not be much lower (30% at most), but today's brave new on-line-only publishers are finding otherwise (70% at least). If the latter are right, then it will no longer make sense to recover those reduced costs from S/SL/PPV, with its attendant restrictions on access: Author pages charges, funded by University savings from journal subscription cancellations, could cover them up-front, and all authors, readers, and Learned Inquiry itself would be the beneficiaries. Suppose we agree that this outcome would be the best one: How do we get there (page-charge-based free access to all) from here (access restricted by S/SL/PPV)? Thomas Walker (1998) recognises that making the refereed journal literature in all disciplines on-line and free for all, with no financial firewalls, is the optimal and inevitable solution for science and scholarship, and he proposes the following transition scenario: Let journals -- immediately, while we are still in the hybrid paper/on-line era -- finance free access to on-line reprints out of author page-charges (for about the same price as paper reprints currently). The work of authors who pay appears instantly; those who do not pay must wait a year for their work to appear publicly on-line; until then, toll-based paper is the only means of access. This would be responsive to the need and desire of authors for instant free access to their work today, and it would hasten reader addiction to this new mode of access, thereby hastening the day when paper, and its expenses, and the S/SL/PPV tolls that needed to be levied to cover them, can all be jettisoned and author page charges take over entirely, making the entire literature free for all. The only problem with this scenario is that, human nature being what it is, people will not part with their money unless there is no alternative. And there IS an alternative for providing free on-line access to one's work in the paper era: Authors can put their papers on-line themselves -- on their institutional home servers or in centralised ones such as http://xxx.lanl.gov, the NSF/DOE-supported Physics Eprint Archive at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The outcome would be the same as the one sought by Walker: Reader demand for the free on-line versions would rise (xxx has 70,000 hits daily, and new papers are archived at the rate of 100 per weekday), demand for the paper versions would fall, library subscriptions would be cancelled, paper publishers would be forced to restructure as on-line-only publishers, costs would scale down to on-line-only, and THEN (when costs approached those or today's paper reprints) authors would be willing to pay page charges, not for the electronic archiving, which they could do at least as well for themselves, but for the quality control and subsequent certification that journals have always provided. Publishing being the imperishable mark of productivity that it is, Universities will find the resources out of their library windfall savings to cover the relative pittance it will cost to reap the benefits of the optimal and the inevitable. Does that settle it then? Not quite. There are still some controversial issues that have only been glossed over here, and it is hoped that the discussion will focus on these. They are at the heart of the controversy about the future course of refereed journal publishing. (1) What IS the true cost of on-line-only publication of a mainstream journal? (2) What is the current status of copyright agreements in relation to public on-line archiving of one's own work? More important, what justification is there for attempting to restrict such author archiving in domains where authors neither seek nor receive fees or royalties, but only maximal accessibility to their work? (3) How can chaos be avoided in the unstable period of journal cancellations, while S/SL/PPV-supported paper is not yet phased out, costs are not yet down to online-only levels, and author page-charges are not yet phased in? Please read the Walker target article and then post your comments to the list: september-forum(a)amsci-forum.amsci.org or link to: http://amsci-forum.amsci.org/archives/september-forum.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some relevant background links: Ginsparg, P. (1996) Winners and Losers in the Global research Village. Invited contribution, UNESCO Conference HQ, Paris, 19-23 Feb 1996 http://xxx.lanl.gov/blurb/pg96unesco.html Ginsparg, P. (1994) First Steps Towards Electronic Research Communication. Computers in Physics. (August, American Institute of Physics). 8(4): 390-396. http://xxx.lanl.gov/blurb/ Harnad, S. (1990) Scholarly Skywriting and the Prepublication Continuum of Scientific Inquiry. Psychological Science 1: 342 - 343 http://www.cogsci.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Papers/Harnad/harnad90.skywriting.html ftp://ftp.princeton.edu/pub/harnad/Harnad/HTML/harnad90.skywriting.html Harnad, S. 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