[huml-comment] FW: [KMForum-KScience] "Motifs distinguish networks"

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

FYI to the group.

Consider network motifs as sign/iconic.  Anyone care 
to speculate on uses for that?  Perhaps as a secondary 
that describes social communication norms for given 
cultures and human groups.   Perhaps as a context 
for describing a prototypical set of internal paths 
for a given human prototype.  Consider how the impact 
of culture/environment both conditions these (learning) 
and activates these given signs perceived by the human.

I'm not suggesting a work item here.  Just food for thought 
pursuant to earlier comments made here that humans could 
be conceived of internally as a network of semiotes.

Thanks Danny.

len


From: Danny Ayers [mailto:danny@isacat.net]

A piece that may be of interest:

http://www.trnmag.com/Stories/2002/112702/Motifs_distinguish_networks_112702
.html


"There are many types of networks in the world -- computer webs like the
Internet, connections among components in electronics, relationships among
friends and acquaintances, transportation grids, food relationships among
animals, connections among neurons, and interactions among genes.

Scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and Spring
Harbor Laboratory have shown that it is possible to categorize networks by
looking at certain recurring circuits, or motifs, within the networks. 'The
motifs are small, local, wiring patterns that occur throughout the network,'
said Uri Alon, a senior scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science."