Brad McFall
Member (Idle past 5063 days) Posts: 3428 From: Ithaca,NY, USA Joined: 12-20-2001
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Re: MN vs HD
if Simon Levin's ecology of tide flood waters is not physics envy (he left Cornell for Princeton)in the sense that may be between you and HOlmes then I can assure you that it is not as enligtened as phsycists were doing with Newton. I simply tried to interes Simon in the application of Hilbert's program and incidence geometry to polymophic encoding of data and THAT was "too philosophical" for him. L. P. Williams' failure to see this my way I can understand as he thinks F-day was on all and only about e charge but Levin and I assume the Priceton group on complexity IS about doing as you suggested unfortunately it is preceisly becuase of all the errors that way of doing APPLIED MATH in biology that I chose to step out of it. I thought incidence geometry despite the step was not too far out. But that was then and this is now. XML with only one root will never work with a baraminology of faceted classifications but this would split even the simple congruent incidence I was proposing in the 80s. I dont know what you and H are talking about but I think I do follow and understand you observations of at P. Sometimes I thnik as I said we give too much to ecology because it is only the "outside". Ecologists are not falling into this trap but it might be time indeed to rap up the modeling in ecology with some other kind of biology but first let me see if I understand this thread better.
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