Given some of the recent discussion on this subject I thought
participants may be interested to hear about the NATURAL AND
BIOMIMETIC MECHANOSENSING CONFERENCE (see below). Especially
considering their definition of the meeting as ...dedicated to the
identification of common principles
In response to Alan and Juan's exchange:
Criticism does accomplish a number of things...
1) For artists, the work of critics can provide challenges to work
against or models to strive for. Whether or not they are valid,
some of these strange critical flourishes are useful, especially if
treated
