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Brain Rules for Baby (John Medina)
Children don't follow Piaget's stages
The brain appears to go through some commonly experienced developmental stages. But few in the brain science community completely agree on what they are. Developmental psychologist Jean Piaget (who worked for a time with Alfred Binet, the IQ guy) came up with four phases of…
Can A Robot, An Insect Or God Be Aware?: Scientific American
Still no theory of how we attribute minds
Looking at the results from these various studies, it is hard to avoid having the sense that one should be able to construct a single unified theory that explains the whole pattern of people’s intuitions. Such a theory would describe the underlying cognitive processes that lead…
Constructor Theory
Constructor theory
The basic principle of constructor theory is that all fundamental laws of nature are expressible entirely in terms of statements of which tasks (i.e. classes of physical transformations) are possible and which are impossible, and why. This is a new mode of explanation, intended…
Forskningsdatabasen.dk
Modeling the notion of 'theory'
The notion “theory” is a neglected concept in the field of information science and knowledge organization (KO) as well as generally in philosophy and in many other fields, although there are exceptions from this general neglect (e.g., the so-called “theory theory” in cognitive…
He End Of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes The Scientific Method Obsolete
Correlation and causation
Scientists are trained to recognize that correlation is not causation, that no conclusions should be drawn simply on the basis of correlation between X and Y (it could just be a coincidence). Instead, you must understand the underlying mechanisms that connect the two. Once you…
How Books Will Become Machines
We shape our tools and they shape us
We shape our tools and they shape us in return. Trapped in an invisible technological loop, we underestimate the pervasive impact of the tools we use, ignorant of the fact that each technological transition can change the way we act, feel or think. Worse, our understanding of…
Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana
Parenthesising :
This clearly emerges from Maturana's theory concerning the ontology of the observer and underlying the fact that no objective reality exists independently of some observer. This view moves us to bracket or parenthesise all speaking and listening, all explanations, all…
The ontology of the observer; languaging is the central problem
For Einstein, scientific theories were seen as the free creations of the human mind which we used to explain the world - but for Maturana, what needs explaining is precisely this "free creation of the human mind", i.e. the way in which the observer brings forth his world. Thus…
Many-worlds Interpretation - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
The many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics
The many-worlds interpretation is an interpretation of quantum mechanics that asserts the objective reality of the universal wavefunction and denies the actuality of wavefunction collapse. Many-worlds implies that all possible alternate histories and futures are real, each…
Medieval Semiotics (meier-oeser, Stephan)
Aristotle and peter of spain: main classical contributors of the theory of signs
There are various areas within the scholastic system of arts and sciences where a rich tradition of semiotic questions and answers accumulated over the centuries (Maierù 1981; Meier-Oeser 1997, 42–170; Fuchs 1999). Most important are those places located in the realm of the…
Boetius and augustine are the main sources of ideas for medieval scholars
The core set of ideas and doctrines from which medieval philosophers developed their semiotic theories was provided to them mainly by two late ancient authors. Besides Boethius (480–528), who transmitted Aristotelian semantics to the Latin Middle Ages, Augustine's (354–430)…
Noam Chomsky Slams Žižek And Lacan: Empty ‘posturing’ | Open Culture
Scientific theory vs posturing
What you’re referring to is what’s called “theory.” And when I said I’m not interested in theory, what I meant is, I’m not interested in posturing–using fancy terms like polysyllables and pretending you have a theory when you have no theory whatsoever. So there’s no theory in…
Oliver Burkeman | Journalist And Author | How To Be Interesting – And Why The Best Bits Of Life Are More Than 'interesting'
Interestingness vs truth
Do you long to become a "thought leader", thinkfluencing your way from TED talk to tech conference, lauded for your insights? I hope not. But if so, you could do worse than consult a paper published in 1971 by the maverick sociologist Murray Davis, entitled "That's…
Ontologies And Knowledge Bases: Towards A Terminological Clarification
Ontological theory vs conceptualization
...a possible confusion arises between an ontology intended as a particular conceptual framework at the semantic level (interpretations 2-3) and an ontology intended as a concrete artifact at the syntactic level, to be used for a given purpose (interpretations 4-7). This is an…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Paradigms as maps
For our purposes, a simple way to understand paradigms is to see them as maps. We all know that “the map is not the territory.” A map is simply an explanation of certain aspects of the territory. That’s exactly what a paradigm is. It is a theory, an explanation, or model of…
Theories of Childhood, Second Edition (Carol Garhart Mooney)
Enjoying children beats college theory
“When I hire those college students, they are full of theory but don’t know what to do in the classroom. I’d rather hire someone with no college but a true enjoyment of young children.”
Teachers need both joy and theory
We need teachers who have both a true enjoyment of children and a true understanding of how they grow and learn. It seems that we have not been successful at presenting child development as a usable tool for working with young children more effectively. Perhaps we need to take…
Two Decades Of The Language-action Perspective
Communication and organization
Moreover, communication and organization are closely intertwined: communication is not something that just occurs within an organization, because organizations themselves emerge in communication [2]. Taylor, J. Rethinking the Theory of Organizational Communication: How to Read…