Re: [DIYbio] Fwd: An intriguing example of working, medical DIYBio

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:32 AM, Nathan McCorkle <nmz787@gmail.com> wrote:

>> [I wrote] Psychiatry, for example, is a medical specialty. Would you say that
>> someone who is doing amateur psychoanalysis on his friends was doing
>> "DIYbio"?
>
> Yes. The goal is specific to a biological organism.

OK. Um ... so ... there's this science where they try to understand
how homo sapiens manages resources using this symbolic intermediary
resource that homo sapiens calls "money" (in one of its myriad
auditory signaling systems, at least). The science is called
"economics". There's a subdiscipline of economics called "experimental
economics", where they'll gather members of this species into a room
and put them through various simulation games using this money stuff,
to better understand economic behavior in this biological organism.

If I were to conduct my own economics experiment, would I be doing DIYbio?

Finally, if your answer to that question is "yes" (sounds like it
would be, extrapolating from your answer about psychiatry), what would
predict as the outcome of a discussion among editors on Wikipedia if I
tried to put the category of "economics" under "biology"?

Or are you just having a little fun with us?

Regards,
Michael Turner
Project Persephone
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Shinjuku-ku Tokyo 169-0075
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turner@projectpersephone.org
http://www.projectpersephone.org/

"Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward
together in the same direction." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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