Hi Alexandre, Thank you for your appreciation of my work. I appreciate you qualifying your knowledge of the subject, but still I would be happy to hear your criticism if you are willing to give it. I will keep in mind your expertise - and keep in mind that my expertise is limited. It is hard to come up with a unifying theory with a sufficient amount of expertise.
Concerning the internet-based approach, I think that history has shown that the internet is the most powerful engine of societal advancement and the spread of knowledge that exists - or has ever existed - in the world. Peer-review is nothing more than some experts reading a paper and giving comments on it; you can do that on the internet. In fact, you can do it on the internet very easily. I encourage any person with expertise to peer-review this paper and I will take it into consideration in editing my paper. The format of the paper is not very scientific, I admit, but the idea isn't exactly scientific. If supported, it has huge implications for science, but it is a general idea for a general world. If I were to make it more scientific, I would lose much of the logic of the paper which is based on vague intuition and complex concepts that cannot be scientifically defined. I hope that the mathematical model and proofs justify this method, but I don't know how to present the theory in a thoroughly scientific fashion. Thank you again for reading my paper, and if you have any input, or would like to endorse the paper on the website (you can write a specific endorsement that qualifies your knowledge and/or support), then please tell me and I'll put it up right away. Assuming the internet is working; it isn't very reliable in Lebanon. Best wishes, Mansour 2011/10/23 Alexandre F. Souza <alexso...@cb.ufrn.br> > Hi Mansour, > > Congratulations for your scientific initiative. Being out of the > scientific community is an unfavourable position to do science but is > by no means a final obstacle. See the recent example of a great > contribution from Physics by Lou Jost on the calculation and > interpretation of diversity and, to use an extreme example, by > Einstein, who was working at a patent office when he developed his > relativity theory. > > Generally speaking, I believe this to be a natural extension of the > evolutionary theory to the molecular domain, and thus have potential to > make a significant contribution. Since I do not work with neither > evolution nor theoretical ecology, I am not able to discuss your theory > directly. > > However, I disagree with your internet-based strategy. Note that both > the researchers I mentioned before made a contribution to science > because they published their ideas in scientific journals. These are > the main forum in which researchers debate and exchange ideas, and > these ideas become stronger when submitted to peer review and published > criticism. > > Publish it in English, not in Arabian. > > Best wishes, > > Alexandre >
