II. Pedia Sapiens: A Planetary Progeny Comes to Her/His Own Actual Factual Knowledge

B. The Spiral of Science: Manican to American to Earthicana Phases

Mryglod, Olesya. Scientometric Analysis of Condensed Matter Physics Journal. arXiv:1806.09989. We cite this posting by a National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv, information researcher about this Ukrainian scientific publication as an example of how human sapience will pursue natural knowledge whenever and wherever it can. As the quotes and article conveys, over these years this project of cosmic quantification has from an individual, local phase to an instant global collaboration. See also Data Mining in Scientometrics by the author with Yurij Holovatch and Ralph Kenna at arXiv:1807.03353. One might further note that while the western Ukraine can continue such works, the eastern part of the country is beset by and trapped in violent ethnic conflict, a capsule of our civilizational race between palliative discovery and apocalypse.

The paper is dedicated to 25th anniversary of Condensed Matter Physics journal (CMP). It contains the results of comprehensive analysis of different journal-related data. CMP co-authorship relationships are studied analysing the collaboration network. Its cumulative statical and dynamical properties as well as the structure are discussed. The international contribution to the journal is assessed using the authors' affiliation data. The network of the countries collaborating within CMP is considered. Another kind of network is used to investigate the topical spectrum: two PACS indices assigned to one paper are connected by link here. The structure of the most significant interdisciplinary connections is analysed. Finally, the download statistics and the corresponding records of the papers' citations are used to discuss the journal's impact. (Abstract)

25 years ago, in 1993, the first issue of Condensed Matter Physics (CMP) journal was printed. Established as three-lingual institutional edition aimed at publishing the results of the research primarily in condensed matter theory representing mainly west Ukrainian authorship, it developed into an authoritative international journal with a powerful expert pool and wide geography. Modern CMP journal not only exhaustively covers the primarily chosen topical directions but also publishes the results in adjacent areas. Today it is recognized by leading scientometric services and covered by information resources and database. (1)

Munch, Vera. The Cradle of E-Research. Online. March/April, 2011. A report on this virtual revolution from Japan to the Max Planck Institute to advance science from older parochial domains to an instant worldwide collaboration.

The transition from scientific publishing in print into a world interconnected working environment is critical to scientists’ global future. The term e-science does not refer to electronic science, but rather “enhanced science.” It describes an integrated digital infrastructure for scientific publication, collaboration, and information exchange. (30)

Naumis, Gerardo and J. C. Phillips. Diffusion of Knowledge and Globalization in the Web of Twentieth Century Science. Physica A. 391/3995, 2012. National Autonomous University of Mexico and Rutgers University physicists consider the shift in the pursuit of scientific research from individuals or small teams to a worldwide collaboration. The transition began around 1960 but only took off in the 1990s. The basis of this site is its 21st century emergent shift from human to humankind, whom can be rightly seen as now learning on her/his own.

Scientific communication is an essential part of modern science: whereas Archimedes worked alone, Newton (correspondence with Hooke, 1676) acknowledged that “If I have seen a little further, it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” How is scientific communication reflected in the patterns of citations in scientific papers? How have these patterns changed in the 20th century, as both means of communication and individual transportation changed rapidly, compared to the earlier post-Newton 18th and 19th centuries? Here we discuss a diffusive model for scientific communications, based on a unique 2009 scientometric study of 25 million papers and 600 million citations that encapsulates the epistemology of modern science. The diffusive model predicts and explains, using no adjustable parameters, a surprisingly universal internal structure in the development of scientific research, which is essentially constant across the natural sciences, but which because of globalization changed qualitatively around 1960. Globalization corresponds physically to anomalous diffusion, which has been observed near the molecular glass transition, and can enhance molecular diffusion by factors as large as 100. (Abstract)

Neilsen, Michael. Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011. The University of Queensland physicist, later at Perimeter Institute, and presently author, blogger, and speaker, here announces, documents, and advocates an epochal transition in our global midst from centuries to individual research to a sudden new age of instant worldwide collaboration.

In Reinventing Discovery, Michael Nielsen argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than 300 years. This change is being driven by powerful new cognitive tools, enabled by the internet, which are greatly accelerating scientific discovery. There are many books about how the internet is changing business or the workplace or government. But this is the first book about something much more fundamental: how the internet is transforming the nature of our collective intelligence and how we understand the world. (Publisher)

A similar pattern of discovery is being used across science. Scientists in many fields are collaborating online to create enormous databases that map out the structure of the universe, the world’s climate, the world’s oceans, human languages, and even all the species of life. By integrating the work of hundreds or thousands of scientists, we are collectively mapping out the entire world. (4)

Newman, Michael. Coauthorship Networks and Patterns of Scientific Collaboration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 101/Supplement 1, 2004. From the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan, a contribution to quantify how science is increasingly a worldwide communal enterprise.

Nicolescu, Basarab. Manifesto of Transdisciplinary. Albany: State University of New York, 2002. The Romanian-French physicist and author advocates a new phase of scientific inquiry and integration which can set aside the old mechanism model in favor of an animate cosmic genesis. In this view, Nature is seen not as a prefigured text but more a process of being transcribed and written. Universe and human are thus engaged in the same activity of “self-birth.”

Nicolescu, Basarab, ed. Transdiciplinarity: Theory and Practice. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 2008. The University of Paris physicist and philosopher follows up on his 2002 ‘manifesto’ with the same title with the edited collection. Not yet seen, we quote from the publishers’ website.

In this fascinating volume, the contributors make it very clear that far from being a faddish and superficial phenomenon, transdisciplinarity is potentially the foundation for a new, and much needed, approach to inquiry. Transdisciplinarity goes beyond the dualism of opposing binary pairs: subject/object, subjectivity/objectivity, matter/consciousness, nature/divine, simplicity/complexity, reductionism/holism, diversity/unity which have marked the history of ideas for millennia. Because transdisciplinarity is radical, in the sense that is goes to the roots of knowledge, and questions our way of thinking and our construction and organization of knowledge. It requires a discipline of self-inquiry that integrates the knower in the process of knowing. Nicolescu's vision of transdisciplinarity, and that of the international contributors to this volume, goes beyond cognicentrism and the focus on analytic intelligence to propose a new type of intelligence that reflects a harmony between mind, feelings, and body.

Noble, David. A World Without Women. New York: Knopf, 1992. An indictment of science as an exclusively male, clannish endeavor, much to its detriment, which is only now beginning to be corrected.

Ntampaka, Michele and Alexey Vikhlinin. The Importance of Being Interpretable: Toward an Understandable Machine Learning Encoder for Galaxy Cluster Cosmology. arXiv:2112.05768. note this posting by Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore and Harvard Smithsonian Center cosmologists as an instance among many of our apparent Earthuman ability to proceed forth with such an intended participatory self-quantification across any multiUniVersal depth and breadth.

We present a deep machine learning (ML) approach to study cosmological parameters with multi-wavelength observations of galaxy clusters. The ML approach has two components: an encoder that builds a compressed representation of each cluster and a flexible CNN to estimate the cosmological model. From cluster catalogs, the ML method estimates the amplitude of matter fluctuations. Our interpretation schemes led us to find an unknown self-calibration mode for flux- and volume-limited cluster surveys. (Abstract sample)

Ogilvie, Brian. The Science of Describing: Natural History in Renaissance Europe. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. The University of Massachusetts at Amherst historian well details this humanist realization that our august earthly and cosmic environs is yet amenable to study, understanding and written record. The grand project now courses from muon to multiverse, but has lost and abandoned its original philosophical quest of deciphering and reading a greater creation.

Okasha, Samir. Alturism Researchers Must Cooperate. Nature. 467/653, 2010. The scientists who study the evolution of social behavior are seen themselves to have split into argumentative, “tribal” camps, rather than in common pursuit of knowledge. As a mostly male endeavor trying to explain within the Darwinian competitive standard why intragroup caring and sharing is so pervasive across natural kingdoms, it undercuts itself. Researchers ought to do the same and get on with a mutual solution.

Orrell, David. Truth or Beauty: Science and the Quest for Order. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012. Reviewed more in Current Vistas and Gender Complements, this important work worries much over compromised scientific practice, and the imperative for a course correction.

The relationship between gender and aesthetics is frequently discussed in areas such as art and literature, but what does it tell us about science? Ever since Plato described women as originating from morally defective souls and Aristotle excluded them from his Lyceum, science has been a game dominated by men. This has affected both the kind of questions scientists ask and the way they interpret the answers. Nuclear weapons, atom smashers, and even the concept of reductionist science all reflect a gendered response to the world. This chapter traces the history of gender bias in science, explores the role played by the militarization of science following the Second World War, and shows how these related factors have shaped the scientific aesthetic. (116)

The left brain favors rational intellect over intuition, linearity over complexity, stability over change, analysis over a holistic approach, and objectivity over subjectivity. In aesthetic terms, it favors simple symmetry and straight lines. To say – in a rational, objective kind of way – that science tilts in favor of the left brain would not be a risky statement. What would the implications be for different areas of science, including physics, biology, and economics, if our scientific quest for beauty engaged both side of our brain? This final chapter argues that be adopting a new scientific aesthetic, we may come to a greater understanding of our place in the universe. (261)

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