Comments for 暗微幽光 http://scchen.wordpress.com Reflect true knowledge Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:30:59 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Vaule of one word by scchen http://scchen.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/vaule-of-one-word/#comment-11 scchen Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:30:59 +0000 http://scchen.wordpress.com/?p=71#comment-11 I like the word "solidarity". To my knowledge, psychologists would use this word to include the traits available for an individual to survive. Our vision, for example, which is sensitive to the quickly moving objects probably help the ancient hunter trace animals or avoid danger. With a communication ability growing in a society, this skill belong to an individual would be shaped by the other member. This situation might be the earliest way to transit knowledge among people. As the ways of transit increase and diverse, a human society would approach the high-developed civilization as we known. Of course, this is pure guess base on psychological perspective. Recently I read an article commenting on this view. I'll summarize it in these days and put it on this blog. How's your winter break? I finished my trip to California this monday. When will you show up again in the campus? I like the word “solidarity”. To my knowledge, psychologists would use this word to include the traits available for an individual to survive. Our vision, for example, which is sensitive to the quickly moving objects probably help the ancient hunter trace animals or avoid danger. With a communication ability growing in a society, this skill belong to an individual would be shaped by the other member. This situation might be the earliest way to transit knowledge among people. As the ways of transit increase and diverse, a human society would approach the high-developed civilization as we known. Of course, this is pure guess base on psychological perspective. Recently I read an article commenting on this view. I’ll summarize it in these days and put it on this blog.

How’s your winter break? I finished my trip to California this monday. When will you show up again in the campus?

]]> Comment on Alienation of scientific research by Lee Carleton http://scchen.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/alienation-of-scientific-research/#comment-10 Lee Carleton Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:27:01 +0000 http://scchen.wordpress.com/?p=79#comment-10 I completely agree with you and I applaud your courage in bringing attention to this problem. Too often we overlook or dismiss the negative influences of over-emphasis on funding. Certainly, all research must be funded, but how can we develop a model that does not skew research according to funding? Some kind of independent, stable and reliable funding mechanism for research so the scholars can focus on their work and not on political alliances and courting big money. Finally, when we focus too much on money, we forget that it is an invented and arbitrary token of exchange that lacks the inherent practical value of other commodities - perhaps even research! I completely agree with you and I applaud your courage in bringing attention to this problem. Too often we overlook or dismiss the negative influences of over-emphasis on funding. Certainly, all research must be funded, but how can we develop a model that does not skew research according to funding? Some kind of independent, stable and reliable funding mechanism for research so the scholars can focus on their work and not on political alliances and courting big money.
Finally, when we focus too much on money, we forget that it is an invented and arbitrary token of exchange that lacks the inherent practical value of other commodities – perhaps even research!

]]> Comment on Vaule of one word by Lee Carleton http://scchen.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/vaule-of-one-word/#comment-9 Lee Carleton Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:09:49 +0000 http://scchen.wordpress.com/?p=71#comment-9 "Language: a social history of words" is an exciting and insightful essay about our most important tool. Szathmary and Szamado acknowledge that we could build hand tools without language but that the technology of speech makes learning much easier, more precise and much faster. I particularly appreciated their suggestion that language use most likely motivated our collective rather than competitive action. This makes sense, that we used language to promote solidarity for survival - though today, language is often part of competition and division. At this stage in human history it seems important to be reminded of the necessity for cooperation and collaboration and the place language has in promoting these values while retaining equally valuable individual traits. As language accelerated the development and transfer of tool-making knowledge, so can it help to solidify a solidarity for the sustainable survival of our species. “Language: a social history of words” is an exciting and insightful essay about our most important tool. Szathmary and Szamado acknowledge that we could build hand tools without language but that the technology of speech makes learning much easier, more precise and much faster. I particularly appreciated their suggestion that language use most likely motivated our collective rather than competitive action. This makes sense, that we used language to promote solidarity for survival – though today, language is often part of competition and division. At this stage in human history it seems important to be reminded of the necessity for cooperation and collaboration and the place language has in promoting these values while retaining equally valuable individual traits. As language accelerated the development and transfer of tool-making knowledge, so can it help to solidify a solidarity for the sustainable survival of our species.

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