Tao-Hsüan's Concept of Buddhist History

History of ophthalmology in Tennessee and the TAO.

RxNorm Concept History Service

Motivation RxNorm contains drug concepts which represent the currently marketed drugs in the U.S. With each monthly RxNorm release, new drug products are added and obsolete drug products are removed. While this curation supports e-prescribing and drug information exchange use cases, it is detrimental to analytics use cases. The issue in this case is that some of the RxNorm drug identifiers (RxC...

The Concept of Scientific History

human beings have done and suffered. In a still wider sense, history is what historians do. Is history then a natural science, as, let us say, physics or biology or psychology are sciences? And if not, should it seek to be one? And if it fails to be one, what prevents it? Is this due to human error or impotence, or to the nature of the subject, or does the very problem rest on a confusion betwe...

The Structure of Boolean Derivatives in TAO and Meta-TAO

Following the ecological epistemology of Gregory Bateson, we have modeled mental process as the flow of differences in a richly connected network. Bateson also suggested that taking differences in this flow of differences would produce higher order knowledge. Finally, Bateson considered symmetry to be the basis for the pattern which connects living forms and, while he never connected taking dif...

Portraits of Buddhist Women