Dear FIS Colleagues,
Too many streams of order are present in Nature--if they more or cless
correlate with the number of scientific displines, our generation
considers in the order of 7.000-8.000 fields of knowledge; the previous
one was working (late 60's) with more than 3.000 fields. Even if only
half, or one third, of those figures is devoted directly to Nature, it
is a formidable stock of knowledge "streams" to integrate/combine/recombine.
How can we make sense of the collective knowledge dynamics established?
A curious circumstance is that we count with well developed philosophy
of science, history of science, sociology of science, and an emerging
psychology of science too --besides, some aspects related to this very
point are studied withing the "geography of science" pre-field,
developed around E. Garfield and his pioneer Sci. Citation Index.
Why a new discipline or subdiscipline is created almost every week? Why
that particular stream or subtream of orderliness in Nature needs a new
thought-collective?... To socially obtain a new meaning, or a collection
of such new meanings. Let me advocate that late Tom Stonier's "semantic
metabolism" approach (which was dovetailing with my own approach to
meaning in the cellular realm) represents but the same generic call to
equate meaning with instances of networking.
It is to say, almost for every informational realm we may equate changes
in meaning with changes in networking structures. Returning to a posting
of Michel Petitjean weeks or months ago on info and data bases, "Meaning
through Mining" we might put. Ecologically, this may resonate with Bob's
recent posting too.
best wishes
Pedro
PS. Quite many items deserve comment in the ongoing exchanges ("square
orbits" no, but what about "circular or spherical crystals"; the
Augustinian approach to order was almost exactly the position the Karl
is advocating in this; fascinating DNA grammars by Sergei, etc.etc.)
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