4:22 PM
My education is quite good. I attend an elite-school for informatics. In such a school I totally see there too what you have written (passion for knowledge vs just "attended" that school).
Do you read books (which I think you do) or do you want to find everything out by yourself? If you read books, than which? When there are many books, you don't have to list them up all. Just the most important books.
Do you read books (which I think you do) or do you want to find everything out by yourself? If you read books, than which? When there are many books, you don't have to list them up all. Just the most important books.
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6:56 PM
Well, to tell you the truth, although I don't "work" in academia (e.g. I don't get money) out of what I do, I'm quite attached to science. I have been ever since I left my university.
This means that just like any other researcher (the only difference being that I don't get salary for this) I look for information primarily in scientific journals and follow some on regular basis.
I personally follow almost constantly 5 journals where I expect papaers pertaining to what I'm most interested in to get published
These are the journal of theoretical biology, the journal origins of life and the evolution of biospheres, artificial life and 2 journals called astrobiology (different publishing houses but the same subject)
I also get e-mails from the Elsevier publishing house (one of the biggest publishers of scientific literature in the entire world) about topics of interest for me
there is a special online form you can fill in and then they send you advertising material on what is new for the key words you plug in
and I get e-mails from few other publishing houses, so when something interesting pertaining to what I think are the most interesting topics for me gets pubished
When I find something good that looks interesting and I want to download it I will first look it up on the Internet to see if it can be downloaded for free from the web site of the author of the work or on Reasearchgate but if I can't find it
On some very rare occasions when I can't get what I want to read on the Internet or scopus has no access to it I consider buying it online, but salaries in my country are very low so I really don't have the option of actually buying a lot of things and consider buying "extraordinary circumstances"
Basically, I want to give money only for subscriptions to relatively cheap online journals which I can then use to read not one
I have some other "tricks" how to find interesting stuff but I don't think you would like to really know them, right?
The first serious attempt made by anyone to understand life was made by the German physicist Erwin Schrodinger in his seminal work-"What is Life?"-google.com/…What_is_Life__1944.pdf&usg=AFQjCNFNXw3M8PK6tK6aYklvjEa_SoC89Q&sig2=UWUu9lv0dktUfqXTBwhKCA&bvm=bv.149760088,d.bGs
and look up a few closely related articles-begin with the article on Life, then look up things like autopoiesis, autocatlytic sets, hypercycles, abiogenesis/origins of life, chemoton and I'm sure you will be able to find your "way in" the field soon enough.
Then use the net-there are many articles pertaining to the subjects freely available online and you can be sure to find them pretty easily if you know what key words to search for
If you have troubles fining them-come here, open a chat room and invite me-I will be glad to help you.
When you have read up on the topics I suggest you here I have a list o books that may be of interest to you
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