Hossein Jorjani First publication: 2026 – 07 – 18 Biological evolution and intellectual history exhibit a striking structural parallel. In evolutionary biology, new species rarely arise within the large, stable center of a population, where continual interbreeding tends to preserve existing forms. Instead, significant evolutionary divergence often begins in small, geographically or reproductively isolated populationsContinue reading “Excursus 049 – On Peripheral Innovation”
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Excursus 020 – On Communication across Paradigms
Hossein Jorjani First publication: 2026 – 06 – 30 The phenomenon of conceptual scaffolding may be clarified by analogy with coordinate transformations in linear algebra. When moving from one coordinate system to another, a point or vector is represented differently according to the basis in use. To understand the new representation, one must initially mapContinue reading “Excursus 020 – On Communication across Paradigms”
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