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/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] 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, -- rec --
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