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Wednesday, June 08, 2005 |
Some insight into the nature of memory.
When I started work on a memoir about my childhood, I thought
remembering what actually happened would be the easy part. I had very
specific memories of very specific events, and I wrote them down
exactly as I remembered them. One memory involved my stepsister winning
Glen Campbell's Rhinestone Cowboy album at a pumpkin carving [...] [Cognitive Daily]
11:50:50 PM  Google It!.
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Communities of Practice and Complexity :
Conversation and Culture. Peter Bond illustrates some important
underlying principles of communities of practice. Bond's
graph mapping a community's degree of formalism with its
'emotional energy' looks almost exactly like a graph drawn
by Francisco
Varela at a session I attended in 1994 or so.
Varela, though, mapped link density against information
transmission. His sweet spot - enough information to create
semantically relevance, but not so much as to create chaos
- maps almost exactly against Bond's sweet spot for
communities of practice. I don't think this correlation is
accidental; I think they were mapping the same thing. Take
the two concepts together and you arrive what the ideal
degree of connectivity between entities in order to create
a maximal online community. And that point is the modified
scale free network I tried to desribe in Community
Blogging, and I continue to believe (though I
can't prove it) that the mathematics expressing this sweet
spot may be found in the study of Boltzmann
machines. With Bond, I recommend the study of
what he calls "an extraordinary theoretical base,
primarily derived from a biological perspective of human
behaviour and cognition, and how it might be used to better
understand the concept of communities of practice."
Via Nancy
White. By Peter Bond, LeaderValues, November,
2004
[Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily]
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