<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><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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