"Every discipline has its own way of taming scale. The result is when we communicate *across* disciplines about scale, our dialogue is confused, piecemeal, and contradictory."

(Horton, 2021, p.13)

Cognitive Science is a necessarily cross-scale endeavour - from neurochemistry to bodily behaviour to social and cultural embedding. The assumption that phenomena at one scale are identifiable at another is a deeply problematic one.

#scale #AmReading

“This is why I’ve learned not to explain these matters to anyone except fools,” the man in the chair said, and he closed his eyes. “What you have told me is the exact same thing I hear—phrase for phrase—from most wise men who come by, particularly if their wisdom has led them to prefer to trust only to what they can see for themselves.”

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https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-man-in-the-river