http://livingthing.org.au/wiki/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:55:46 -0800 FeedCreator 1.7.2-ppt DokuWiki http://livingthing.org.au/wiki/lib/images/favicon.ico http://livingthing.org.au/wiki/ http://livingthing.org.au/wiki/notebooks/start?rev=1211034674&do=diff1211034674 Private workspaces for users who wish to write documents within the LivingThing. Currently, the notebook users are: But all are welcome. Just create a new notebook and it will automatically appear here. If you want to have it editable by you only, use the contact form below to let the admins know - we’ll fix it up for you quicksmart, for sure. dan mackinlay notebooks Sat, 17 May 2008 07:31:14 -0800 http://livingthing.org.au/wiki/notebooks/dan/start?rev=1209284090&do=diff1209284090 useful things Current projects * An honours thesis in human ecology -- see that sub-project page * blog * my reading list current thoughts some other throughts What is statistics? To consider: What happens when we come to say that we know the probability of a die landing on a given face is 1/6? it means that we have sufficiently many sufficiently unknown variables in the throwing of the die that are sufficiently randomly correlated with the eventual value of the desired unknown that w… dan mackinlay notebooks:dan Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:14:50 -0800 http://livingthing.org.au/wiki/notebooks/dan/honours/conclusion?rev=1181679599&do=diff1181679599 \label{conclusion} I have satisfied my immediate goal in that I have shown a provocative usefulness for distributed cognition in opening up the single-discipline modelling practice in the fishery. The logical conclusion that this approach is at least exploring further follows immediately. dan mackinlay notebooks:dan:honours Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:19:59 -0800 http://livingthing.org.au/wiki/notebooks/dan/honours/fisheries?rev=1181679586&do=diff1181679586 \label{casestudy} A prominent and politically contentious subject, the South East Fishery’s history has been extensively analysed from political, ecological, economic, administrative, and political perspectives (e.g. Klaer, Tilzey and Rowling, , Meere, , Grieve and Richardson, ). It is not my purpose to re-iterate these analyses here. The summary given below will be a bare outline of the history of the fishery, with a focus on the facts necessary for the current analysis. dan mackinlay notebooks:dan:honours Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:19:46 -0800 http://livingthing.org.au/wiki/notebooks/dan/honours/economic_fish?rev=1181679565&do=diff1181679565 \label{models} The choice of case study is, as I have advertised, instrumental to my goal of evaluating certain cognitive science tools. It has been selected because it reflects a disciplinary dispute in which models of human behaviour are crucial. It is, however, also a timely topic of some intrinsic interest. Fisheries the world over are in crisis (Worm et al, ), and unsustainable harvesting regimes the world over face imminent change by definition, either by institutional reform, or by fish s… dan mackinlay notebooks:dan:honours Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:19:25 -0800 http://livingthing.org.au/wiki/notebooks/dan/honours/dc_fish?rev=1181679518&do=diff1181679518 \label{analysis} In this chapter I present a distributed cognition critique of the case study, and reconsider the economic model in the light of it. Since the Gordon-Schaefer model and hence the New directions plan so extensively lean upon the idealised objectively rational actor who nonetheless respects institutional constraints, my use of distributed cognition here will be directed at that component of the model. dan mackinlay notebooks:dan:honours Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:18:38 -0800 http://livingthing.org.au/wiki/notebooks/dan/honours/the_framework?rev=1181679375&do=diff1181679375 \label{framework} Much as my own field, human ecology, turns many disciplines’ tools upon resource management, cognitive science does so upon the mind. It is “an interdisciplinary endeavour that works to blend evidence and insights from anthropology, computer science, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, and neurophysiology” (Dovers and Connor, ). At first glance, the relationship between such a field and resource management might seem tenuous. However, much use has already been made of co… dan mackinlay notebooks:dan:honours Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:16:15 -0800 http://livingthing.org.au/wiki/notebooks/dan/honours/introduction?rev=1181639890&do=diff1181639890 We live in an era of deepening resource crises on almost every front. Simultaneously, we live in a time when huge strides in our understanding of human resource usage provide us with the tools to solve many of these crises in isolation. And yet, many of our most urgent problems are resigned to same “business as usual” approaches within established disciplines; approaches that are proving increasingly inadequate. Policy deadlock and legal battles maintain a fatal status quo of resource deplet… dan mackinlay notebooks:dan:honours Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:18:10 -0800