RE: The organization of bodies of knowledge in the sciences takes place at another level than the integration of cognition in the body of an individual. One cannot reduce the one level to the other, in my opinion. Which research program of these two has priority? How do they relate ? potentially differently ? to information?
ME: My Cambridge colleague, Madan Thangavelu, holds that the structure of knowledge in both human brains (and human organizations), and in' bodies of knowledge' in the sciences, is fractal. It is certainly true that the structure of creative ideas and new projects emerging from individuals and corporations has a fractal kind of distribution, and as a consequence, has to be assessed using a Herfyndahl index rather that the mean and standard deviation of a normal distribution, or their analogues for experimentally encountered non-normal data distributions. (Better the square root of the Herfyndaho index, since this can be additive when combining distributions.) -- Alex Hankey M.A. (Cantab.) PhD (M.I.T.) Distinguished Professor of Yoga and Physical Science, SVYASA, Eknath Bhavan, 19 Gavipuram Circle Bangalore 560019, Karnataka, India Mobile (Intn'l): +44 7710 534195 Mobile (India) +91 900 800 8789 ____________________________________________________________ 2015 JPBMB Special Issue on Integral Biomathics: Life Sciences, Mathematics and Phenomenological Philosophy <http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00796107/119/3>
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