Sorry I can’t help.

-cvj

Lee Smolin:

there are two kinds of scientists-hill climbers and valley crossers. Hill climbers are great technically and will always advance an approach incrementally. They are what you want once an approach has been defined, i.e. a hill has been discovered, and they will always go uphill and find the nearest local maximum. Valley crossers are perhaps not so good at those skills, but they have great intuition, a lot of serendipity, the ability to find hidden assumptions and look at familiar topics new ways, and so are able to wander around in the valleys, or cross exposed ridges, to find new hills and mountains.

Of course I had to build some perspective on this in regards to “BIGfoot” (toe analogies) and the inhernet tendencies of “anomalistic behavior” evident in reality?

If Lee can invoke Kuhnian perspective, then so can I? We can “evolve” from “paradigmal change,” even though these words are not accepted to established journals of reading.

I wait for the day a scientist will admit “he” like eisntein saw something strange in his youth, but through education, understood what the compass to mean. If there are such “strange anomalies” that exist(?) then there has to be a science that explains it.

The science exists “out there” like ideas? We just don’t know about it yet?

Using Firefox to view your pages. Much better.

I remember the post and the picture I borrowed.

I have many of my own good mountain views. Maybe I’ll post some on my site. The Grand Canyon possibly.

The linked Science mag article requires subscription (I can only view a free 2-line summary, which is useless). Can you do something about it (like saving it, and providing a link to your saved copy of it)? I would like to read it.

Cheers.