After listening to this paper, a few things are interesting right out of the gate:
- The resource model of cognition hasn’t really propagated to biology yet.
- Two they point out that experts have learned to reason across disciplines using cross-cutting concepts. Could it possibly be that experts have gained this ability because they were exposed to it in different contexts? I don’t think this is true but it’s worth thinking about the fact that it could possibly be.
- I like the idea of engineers as existing in the middle of the idealized/real-example continuum with physics on the idealized end and biology on the other.