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Visualization of the Evolutionary Epistemology process
Views
- Phylogenetic view
- Social view/Mixed view
- Ontogenic view
Principle
Why science?
- intrinsically growth of knowledge + self-discipline (producing normalized meta0data)
Why visual?
- provides a cognitive support and give the ability to find pattern (cf our references on visualization).
- When do new concepts emerge? Why? How?
- Study of the evolution over time of the same concept
- driven by changes in the surrounding concepts that change?
Justification
A visualization, even if imperfect, let your mind "rest" on it. It's a part of the cognitive scaffolding that you build to go further. The better is it, the best the affordance it is and thus the further one can go with it.
Phylogenetic view
Not limited to 1 individual but to an entire specie.
- time dimension (horizontal, vertical slice with the latest one representing the "present")
- each line being a concept
- each point on the line being a modification of the concept
the term selected refers to selected by the viewer, hovered.dynamic indicators (activated when highlighted)
- concept path (ex. manufacturing)
- influencer path (ex. automation)
- sets of path (same principle than the phylogenic view but restricted to a subset of concepts)
- coherence model
- discipline/domain
- culture (intertwined lines)
- patterns
- stabilization (low frequency of mutations over a finite period of time)
- destabilization (high freq)
- time slice
- highlight of a moment in time
Using a reference based equivalent of BLAST used in taxonomy to build phylogenetic tree ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/About/primer/phylo.html )
Social view/Mixed view
See the idea developed in Bibliography#influenceviewers. It is more of a social view of EET than an ontogenic or phylogenetic view.
- time dimension
- each line being a concept
- each point on the line being an influencer on the concept
See also
- side to side comparison in "Hypothesis Time Line" of the Odor-search and "Language" hypothesis in bee foraging
- Figure 2.5 and 2.6 at the end of Chapter 2 of The Myths Of Innovation
by Scott Berkun, O'Reilly Media 2007
- Research Trends bi-monthly newsletter providing objective, up-to-the-minute insights into scientific trends based on bibliometric analysis.
- Recapitulation theory
("ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny") and it's critics
- including Herbert Spencer's quote "If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every child an aptitude to acquire these kinds of knowledge in the same order.... Education is a repetition of civilization in little"
- Visualization
- Bestiario
- reMap, displays visualcomplexity.com projects allowing navigation using a semantic approach
- Canvi & temps 2009
- On the Origin of Species: The Preservation of Favoured Traces by Ben Fry 2009
- Visualizing information flow in science by Moritz Stefaner, eigenfactor.org 2009
- Cartographies of Time: A History of the Timeline by Daniel Rosenberg, Anthony Grafton, Princeton Architectural Press, 2010
- Science-Metrix S&T Evaluation
- customized services in performance measurement and program evaluation using advanced bibliometric indicators and recognized quantitative and qualitative research methods.
Ontogenic view
Limited to 1 individual organism, evolution of the cognitive scaffolding of an individual.
- time dimension
- each line being an affordance
- each point on the line being a concept from the phylogenic view
Example : evolution of my personal concepts tree and new concepts (that could be integrated). Eventually The Origins of Object Knowledge (OUP, May 2009) could also be used as an example.
Resources
(see Bibliography for related papers)
General visualization resources
Data sets to use
See Research.Datasets
First usages I would like to try
See Research.Application
notes from the 19/01/09
EE as a creative process.
Fractal as in sub-process of the social problem solving environment of the EE (each action, epistemic action is itself problem solving).
EE is problem-solving oriented
Can we find fractal patterns in formalized knowledge repository?
- Coevolution of theories?
- Cross polenizations?
