To: TobagoJack who wrote (138666 ) 1/29/2018 10:23:16 AM From: dvdw© Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 219580 This outtake is false: "NSB chair Maria Zuber told Nature , “The U.S. continues to be the global leader in science and technology, but the world is changing. We can't be asleep at the wheel." During a public briefing on the NSB’s report, head of the NSF France Córdova warned, “We are involved in a global race for knowledge. We may be the innovation leader today, but other countries are rapidly gaining ground.” which leads to innovation. Spurious correlations must be weeded out from narratives such as the one portrayed in the article. Its False that countries are/should be measured on some scale by quantity of publishing iterated r&d. Compartmentalization leads only to some momentum or another. Take a look at a picture of those attending the Solvay Conference for Physics in 1927. Each participant had a nationality by birth, singularly that affectation did them no good, it is only in the presence of other individuals who share an interest in a subject, do breakthroughs emerge. Combanatorial intelligence happens within narrow interest groups be it physics or chemistry or any other science. Look closely at the attendees.en.wikipedia.org In order for breakthroughs to occur, participants must become extra national.... You can see, none of the participants nationalities, ended up translating too any nation/ National leadership of the entire field. Spurious correlations are at this time just as dangerous as compartmentalization. Learn to know the difference between r&d innovation by iteration from compartmentalized participation; and true breakthroughs in understanding about this world we live in.. By direct observation, its fairly clear that goal seeking systems are desirous too accord to themselves, credit where none is actually due. Incarnated souls bring missions onto the planet, no amount of nationalization contributes to these souls from making the connections with other souls with similar missions. Until we realize HAPUC, we have nothing but more of the same spurious correlations augmenting national ego.