Notions of entropy

[Nick Thompson]

Are you a subscriber?  I hit the pay wall.  I probably can get at these articles via Clark, but it will involve starting all over again and looking them from the Clark portal. 

 

Do you have a smarter way?

 

NIc k

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Roger Critchlow
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 4:06 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] hypothetical causes for semantic drift (was Notions of entropy)

 

Nature publishes a letter:

 

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v502/n7471/full/502303d.html Communication: Metaphors advance scientific research

 

which references a perspective:

 

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v500/n7464/full/500523a.html Communication: Mind the metaphor

 

and another letter:

 

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v502/n7470/full/502170c.html Engineering: Biologists borrow more than words

 

The perspective was scolding biologists for nonsense like "selfish genes" and "books of life", the letters are protesting that there are metaphors which have more useful content than that sort.

 

So even moneymaking publishing enterprises get sucked into these discussions now and then,

 

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