It was back in the early 1980s. My thoracic surgical colleague asked if I could help him with one of his patients who had developed breathing problems after a lobectomy. The man was on a respirator, the consequence (it turned out) of a post-operative attack of asthma. By the time he had recovered, the pathologist reported the resected lobe to have contained not cancer but pneumoconiotic massive...

Currently, the only discipline that deals with scientific representations— albeit non-structural ones—is mathematics (as distinct from logic). I suggest that it is this discipline, only vastly expanded based on a new, structural, foundation, that will also be dealing with structural representations. Logic (including computability theory) is not concerned with the issues of various representatio...