Archive for October, 2008

Analogy at the core of the financial meltdown

October 26, 2008

People in my research group are tired of hearing the phrases that either meaning is constructed out of experience, or it is constructed out of analogies.  Over and over they have heard the phrase: “consider DNA: DNA is like a zipper, computer code, etc…” (I think I can safely assume readers of this blog know [...]