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Gell-Mann won a Nobel prize and named the Quark. Notes from his talk today at the SFI Overview on Complex Adaptive Systems.
15 responses to “Murray Gell-Mann Redux”
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Action packed!
Gell-Mann II: Electrik SchemaLoo.
Ditto to Automatt; thanks for posting Steve, this made my morning in some small, not particularly complex way. =)
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BTW, I emailed some of the Kansas board members who voted on the recent wording change to the science curriculum there.
My completely unintentional grammatical mistake in my brief email introduction was like sweet sweet reply bait for these educators, but it also may have made me look like a net.loon, in retrospect I regret this.
I received some thoughtful replies from the board members who voted in the minority such as Kathy Martin.
It should not be impossible to question doctrinal systems of thought but likewise it is not too much to ask that we teach science in science class.
Enemies of science–> highly provocative! Do not forget the whiteboard’s artist on your holiday card list.
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In China, there was a greatest thought leader and revolutionist, called "LU XUN ", his classic pattern proverb:" In this world there is none road/pattern at all, it will naturally become the road when more and more people following!" It’s the enterpreneurship and lead VC case.
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Ah yes, Gell-Mann’s comments led to quite a stir with a few people.
automatt: for real? Did you include the FSM pirate graph?
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That’s where I got their email addresses, from that, or it may have been from some Pastafarian related clickstream — the fastest growing religion on the net.. It’s also satire in the sense of the graph but with a more elaborate and sincere backstory.
The net.folks who are adopting an alternative religion – their testimonials really provoke a strong reaction in people who want to see faith taught more seriously. So meta a way to get your point across, I love it.
This approach is not for me, not that there is anything wrong with it etc
Via Joel Bellenson:
We MUST be living in revolutionary times if trigonometry is being thrown out.
http://www.physorg.com/news6555.html
September 16, 2005
Mathematics students have cause to celebrate. A University of New South Wales academic, Dr Norman Wildberger, has rewritten the arcane rules of trigonometry and eliminated sines, cosines and tangents from the trigonometric toolkit.
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I faved this picture because it looked pretty much like a comic. Now I read it in depth, plus the comments, and I see that it doesn´t look like one, it *IS* a sketch (an iconic trigger). Which by no means is something bad. This intends to be a humble semantical approach to the image (meta):
Most surely Mr Gell-Mann awakes different feelings among people if he speaks the same way he draws his boards, with such a vast collection of universal logic operators (‘universales lógicos’ in Spanish, means words of most envolvent category, and thus a higher level of abstraction. Like "life", "social power", "science", "myth", "evolution" et ceteras. Generally speaking, these words awake lots of quarrels when used too much, altogether, without a concrete definition from the user). You realize what I mean when you cannot answer to yourself while reading something: "What did the author exactly mean by "(phrase or word here)"?
Also there are phrases with charged judgamental content (usage of words like "enemies", "obvious", "over- emphasize", "all", "superstition"). This eventually stirs -or may awake fanatism-.
All these words need definition for me, before I could say if I agree or not. For the drawings: appealing. I buy. 😉
So, from here, what I do know is that Mr Gell-Mann is a great cartoonist! Does he know?
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It’s true! He and Larry Gonnick should do a book together. =)
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&..., Larry
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Hm, my job title says "scientist" but apparently I’m actually an enemy of science, too. 😉 Science is great; I’m only an enemy of bad science that so badly wants answers that it fails to consider that it might be flawed on some points or fails to take into account the amplification of error as one imperfect theory is derived from another and another… and then curiously relabeled from "theory" to "fact". Unfortunately, I must admit that this seems to describe a good deal of what we call science these days. 🙂
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Murray Gell-Mann in Buenos Aires talks about creative thinking"Gell-Mann came to Argentina to meet friends, to do bird sighting, and to visit Buenos Aires for the first time because he had read a lot about it from Borges, one of his favourites writers."
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