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<p class=""><span class="">RE: The organization of bodies of knowledge in the sciences takes place at</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">another level than the integration of cognition in the body of an</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">individual. One cannot reduce the one level to the other, in my opinion.</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">Which research program of these two has priority? How do they relate ?</span></p>
<p class=""><span class="">potentially differently ? to information?</span></p>
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<p class=""><span class="">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. </span></p>
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<p class=""><span class="">STAN: I don’t think that “fractal” answers Bob’s question. In fractal organization there are no ‘levels’ as used by Bob. Bob’s “levels” would exist in a compositional hierarchy, wherein levels cannot communicate in an interactional sense, but, rather, communicate indirectly, with the upper level imposing boundary conditions upon a lower, while a lower provides raw materials that might become organized by those boundary conditions.</span></p><p class=""><span class="">STAN</span></p></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 1:30 AM, Alex Hankey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alexhankey@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexhankey@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">RE: <span style="font-size:12.8px">The organization of bodies of knowledge in the sciences takes place at</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">another level than the integration of cognition in the body of an</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">individual. One cannot reduce the one level to the other, in my opinion.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Which research program of these two has priority? How do they relate ?</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">potentially differently ? to information?</span><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">ME: My Cambridge colleague, Madan Thangavelu, holds that </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">the structure of knowledge in both human brains (and human organizations), and in' bodies of knowledge' in the sciences, is fractal. </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">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.)</span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">Alex Hankey M.A. (Cantab.) PhD</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"> (M.I.T.)<br>Distinguished Professor of Yoga and Physical Science,<br>
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