Bill @wjbeaver@qoto.org

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There is an idea in biology called folk biology. Ordinary people know what things are. They know what a dog is although dogs come in a wide range of sizes, colors, and shapes. Hunter gatherer societies know what a species is to the level of any trained naturalist yet defining the term species in biology is an ongoing struggle. So to with other terms like gene or even individual. There is a problem with meaning, we know what objects are but when we delve into meaning all sorts of issues appear. So we drop meaning and look at knowledge. How do we have knowledge of an object?

https://wjbeaver.wixsite.com/mysite/post/what-is-a-chair

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I can't seem to get the Latex to work in Markdown. Is is that I can't see it with my browser? How do I fix this? (I use Chrome or Brave)

example: \ (x+y=z\ )

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Some of the best books I’ve read last year.

#originoflife #informationtheory #ComplexSystems #CollectiveBehavior #evolutionarydynamics #biogels #informationtheory #philosophy #philosophyofscience #philosophyofmaths #qotojournal

Some of the best books I’ve read last year.

#originoflife #informationtheory #ComplexSystems #CollectiveBehavior #evolutionarydynamics #biogels #informationtheory #philosophy #philosophyofscience #philosophyofmaths #qotojournal

Some of the best books I’ve read last year.

#originoflife #informationtheory #ComplexSystems #CollectiveBehavior #evolutionarydynamics #biogels #informationtheory #philosophy #philosophyofscience #philosophyofmaths #qotojournal

Some of the best books I’ve read last year.

#originoflife #informationtheory #ComplexSystems #CollectiveBehavior #evolutionarydynamics #biogels #informationtheory #philosophy #philosophyofscience #philosophyofmaths #qotojournal

Some of the best books I’ve read last year.

#originoflife #informationtheory #ComplexSystems #CollectiveBehavior #evolutionarydynamics #biogels #informationtheory #philosophy #philosophyofscience #philosophyofmaths #qotojournal

Some of the best books I've read last year.

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I and a few other rowdy teenagers (1967) were kicked out of James Russell Lowell's Asphodel bookstore right after he was busted for obscenity for publishing D A Levy's work. I remember it being on the third floor of the Arcade. He wasn't in the mood for underage kids coming in. We of course had heard about it and wanted to pay homage.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXBDO4LLsTc&list=OLAK5uy_mRYiHED8dW8hMoDg2u-vU3P1Bf80Ma51o&index=9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6kHN92Yv48

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the nation is the Universe
the gender is human
the weak are protected

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leaves have surfaces that have a degree of wetability, water will either stick to a surface or it will flow off depending on the ecological needs of the leaf. Nonwetable leaves have complex surfaces that modify the surface pressure of water so it forms droplets and flows off. The reasoning and mathematics of this is explained in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvsExbXVPac&list=PLD67E4808634F5EF3&index=6

My question: The complex surface looks fractal, is there a scaling law going on here?