The Top of the Flower Bud
It is in the nature of a flower bud to blossom, to bloom. This is part of the series ‘A Journey through 12 AURELIS Metaphors.’ For an introduction to this series and a list of the 12 metaphors, click here. Imagine a flower bud perched delicately on its stem. It holds infinite potential, every petal Read the full article…
Lisa in Scientific Writing
In the blog ‘Lisa as a Mental Copilot’ (see that blog), Lisa and I talked about her ‘copiloting’ when writing any text ― including scientific text. This blog is our further conversation about the latter. Me: “Can this also be interesting for purely scientific text? For instance, generating an abstract for a medical scientific article, Read the full article…
Our Memory is Our Thinking
Researchers used to think that human memory was an altogether different function from thinking, deciding, problem solving, etc. Not anymore. —Additionally, memory is also actively related to the act of perceiving. There are many functionally different brain parts, but they continually act together toward final results. The computer analogy From the start, digital computer guys Read the full article…
Natural Kind Concepts
“To say that a kind is natural is to say that it corresponds to a grouping that reflects the structure of the natural world rather than the interests and actions of human beings.” (*) ‘Rather than’ already denotes the relative nature that pervades the whole domain. Please read The meaning of a word. This is Read the full article…