dichotomistic.com
Dichotomistic - about the author John McCrone
http://www.dichotomistic.com/about_intro.html
This site is the intellectual property of John McCrone - email: mccrone 'at' dichotomistic.com. It was first published on-line in 2006 but contains material from a previous site, Going Inside - the Neuronaut's Guide to the Science of Consciousness, that was mainly about mind science. So this site divides into three general sections. The main bit is the logic pages. Then there is a large chunk of material about the brain mind. So who am I? I started out at Auckland University in the 1970s studying psychol...
metapatterns.wikidot.com
Resources and Links Index - Metapatterns
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Participating and Submitting Work. How to join this site? Join Us on Facebook. Videos, Photos, and Multimedia. What is a Wiki Site? Participating and Submitting Work. How to edit pages? Add a new page. This site has had. February 19, 2010. View Pattern Underground Stats. Resources and Links Index. This page is the index page for pages of resources and links to other sites. Please include information about the page. Writing the Natural Way. Jeff Bloom's Personal/Professional Site Metapatterns pages. Koest...
dualityscience.com
Duality Science Academy - Duality vs Complementarity
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Duality Science Academy - -. Duality Unifies Physics and Biology. Dualities span the disciplines. The Mathematics of Duality. Papers and Examples of Duality. The modern notion of complementarity. Is derived from a principle found in Quantum Mechanics. This principle was proposed in 1927 by the Danish physicist Niels Bohr. 1885-1962). The early debates about subatomic particles was whether or not the laws of classical mechanics applied to them. The complementarity principle states that. This is best expla...
complexitymatters.blogspot.com
Complexity Matters: "Crowdsourcing" and Crisis Mapping: Technological Ingenuity Makes it Happen
http://complexitymatters.blogspot.com/2009/05/crowdsourcing-andcrisis-mapping-new.html
Friday, May 29, 2009. Crowdsourcing" and Crisis Mapping: Technological Ingenuity Makes it Happen. After the disputed election of President Mwai Kibaki. A self-described geek and power networker who grew up in Kenya and Sudan, tells the story in a TED interview. Which means testimony in Swahili, has simplified technology so that any one can use it, and it takes advantage of what Hersman calls the “default device of Africa”, the mobile phone. Some 59 percent of the world’s cell phones...Ushahidi uses crowd...
postcogtopics.blogspot.com
Postcognitive Topics: March 2014
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Thursday, 27 March 2014. Animate movement is not accounted for in any materialist or mechanical metaphysics. Most of the post-cognitivist strands we have been following tackle this head on, with different points of emphasis. Here is an enlightening discussion hosted by the philosopher of movement, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone. And with contributions by Scott Kelso. And its relation to movement. Monday, 24 March 2014. A conversation between Ger and James, overheard on the number 7 bus. Thursday, 13 March 2014.
complexitymatters.blogspot.com
Complexity Matters: Health Disparities and Startling Similarities: Life and Death in Baltimore and Bangladesh
http://complexitymatters.blogspot.com/2009/05/health-disparities-and-startling.html
Friday, May 15, 2009. Health Disparities and Startling Similarities: Life and Death in Baltimore and Bangladesh. The United States ranks second out of 177 countries in per capita income—behind Luxembourg—but 34th in the survival of infants to age one. The United States spends $5.2 billion a day on healthcare, more than any other nation in the world, yet ranks 24th among the world’s 30 most affluent nations for life expectancy. Those numbers come from The Measure of America. Ms Burd-Sharps said US healthc...
complexitymatters.blogspot.com
Complexity Matters: When in Rome Do as the Romans--Sage Advice or Doorway to Doom?
http://complexitymatters.blogspot.com/2009/06/when-in-rome-do-as-romans-sage-advice.html
Friday, June 26, 2009. When in Rome Do as the Romans- Sage Advice or Doorway to Doom? Can conformity lead to mass extinction? Some scholars think it can, and has. Hal Whitehead. Of Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, and Pete Richerson. Their theory is described in the story by Dan Jones ,"Conformist May Kill Civilization". In Nature News. The scholars modeled how different learning strategies fare in different learning environments. During long periods with only modest amounts of change,...
complexitymatters.blogspot.com
Complexity Matters: Scientists Probe the Mysteries of Scaling:The Math Applies for Mice, Elephants and Cities
http://complexitymatters.blogspot.com/2009/06/scientists-probe-mysteries-of.html
Friday, June 5, 2009. Scientists Probe the Mysteries of Scaling:The Math Applies for Mice, Elephants and Cities. What does the borough of Manhattan have in common with a mouse? Explains it, they are “variations on a single structural theme.”. In a guest column in The New York Times, “Math and the City,”. And The Calculus of Friendship: What a Teacher and Student Learned about Life While Corresponding about Math, to be published in August. Melanie Mitchell. In her book Complexity: A Guided Tour.
complexitymatters.blogspot.com
Complexity Matters: On The Edge Nursing in the Age of Complexity-3rd Annual Conference on Complexity and Nursing
http://complexitymatters.blogspot.com/2009/07/on-edge-nursing-in-age-of-complexity.html
Sunday, July 12, 2009. On The Edge Nursing in the Age of Complexity-3rd Annual Conference on Complexity and Nursing. Marjorie Wiggins, Vice President of Nursing at Maine Medical. All the housekeepers went to dinner at the same time to give a shower for one member of the staff. Claire Lindberg, professor at The College of New Jersey School of Nursing. Edited by Claire Lindberg, Curt Lindberg and Sue Nash. Talked about the history of ideas, the roots of complexity science, and the vital importance of under...
