Notes on Engins Presentation

Notes on Engin’s Presentation reasoning is just running mental models!

Models      Mediators between theory and data Magnani 2002      “cognitive prostheses” Duschl & Grandy 2008      A way of conveying ideas and thoughts different from language      “mental” and external

Question about cloud biology:       What’s the important learning move? Agency over the discovery? Or the opportunity to compare contrasting cases?      And why is the verisimilitude important?      How important is the feedback loop?

This allows crossing disciplinary boundaries

Joystick vs. Match: Where is the agency? I have the agency; the euglena has the agency. 

What matters in experimental strategy?      controlled variable change      mixed variable change      repetition      “burst"

So we found that controlled variable changes are what’s most important. This seems consistent with Dan Schwartz’s findings that studying contrasting cases is the most important part of learning. Could we compare the systematic variable changers with forcing controlled variable changes?