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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif'>Dear Loet,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif'>Thank you for sharing this part of your cycle with us. Although for you and me it was marked as much by disagreement as agreement, it may have helped to show some higher level unity of our views. There is no absolute separation between collaboration and non-collaboration, especially if they last as long as ours!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif'>Like another of your friends wrote, I also consider myself as one of your students. You have many priorities, but I would be glad if you could give me another “assignment”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif'>Joe<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Fis <fis-bounces@listas.unizar.es> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Loet Leydesdorff<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, March 2, 2023 11:46 AM<br><b>To:</b> fis@listas.unizar.es; Quantitative Science Studies <qss@issi-society.org><br><b>Subject:</b> [Fis] deep brain stimulaton<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif'>Dear colleagues and friends.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif'>Unfortunately, The doctors at the Amsterdam UMedical Center had to inform me that I'll probably die shortly (a year from now?) <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif'>Many thanks for friendship and collaboration. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif'>Best, <br>Loet <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div id="signature_old"><div id=xb92083603b9c4c6><div id=x37dfff32a36b4410ad8e891fea6bb1b8><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>_______________</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Loet Leydesdorff</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div id=x37dfff32a36b4410ad8e891fea6bb1b8><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-59951-5__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!RL_4bOtTh7UexBMbg9dQBjcIfuzsm3C4JPMWgsygqeArGbIenQCqM4wYLhC1xohf5f7Wlwvut6X1j-WbVLg$">"The Evolutionary Dynamics of Discusive Knowledge"</a>(Open Access)</span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Professor emeritus, University of Amsterdam </span><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>Amsterdam School of Communication Research (ASCoR)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><a href="mailto:loet@leydesdorff.net" title="mailto:loet@leydesdorff.net">loet@leydesdorff.net </a>; <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.leydesdorff.net/__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!RL_4bOtTh7UexBMbg9dQBjcIfuzsm3C4JPMWgsygqeArGbIenQCqM4wYLhC1xohf5f7Wlwvut6X1howqcWY$" title="http://www.leydesdorff.net/">http://www.leydesdorff.net/</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!RL_4bOtTh7UexBMbg9dQBjcIfuzsm3C4JPMWgsygqeArGbIenQCqM4wYLhC1xohf5f7Wlwvut6X1fAXP-ZU$"><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ych9gNYAAAAJ&hl=en</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id=x37dfff32a36b4410ad8e891fea6bb1b8><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'>ORCID: <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/orcid.org/0000-0002-7835-3098__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!RL_4bOtTh7UexBMbg9dQBjcIfuzsm3C4JPMWgsygqeArGbIenQCqM4wYLhC1xohf5f7Wlwvut6X174R3Pes$">http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7835-3098</a>; 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