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My affeir with deliberation started in 2002, when I started a Ph.D. in biology. While I was reading the scientific literature and participated in conferences, I have noticed that I have difficulties following the logic of the scientific communication. When I tried to follow the logic from premiss to conclusions, it did not worked out. In order to see the logic in the scientific papers I have deepend my knowldge in logic, but yet, it seemd to me that scientific writings don't follow any roles of logic. Therefore I had read Popper's book "The Logic of Scientific Discovery". I noticed that the Popper's Demarcation crterion do work in science, but I still couln't find the logic itself in the scientific writings. The riddle had puzzled me, so I moved to the program of History and Philosophy of Science in Bar-Ilan university. There I was introduced to the constructionists writings on science. I thought their writings has critical nature, which was very helpful in unveiling the aura that science is a pure logical field, but they can did not explain the science I have experienced in my years at biology department. Therefore, I have set my self to try to explain science as I have experienced it. for four years I have devised a model of scientific reason. After four years, and nudge from the head of the program, I have started to show the model to researchers in philosophy. Most of them said it is interesting, but it is too new, and too wide, to be a Ph.D. thesis. I couldn't find anyone that will mentor me. So I left the academy to try to develop this model on my own.
After a while, I have engaged Direct Democracy, and found that the deliberation field is critical for the development of successful direct democracy and participatory democracy, so I have used my model to try to understand how "lay people" reason. Because I was not restricted by philosophy, I could enter in to my model also knowledge from brain research. After experiencing with real life deliberation, and facilitating wide variety of on-line and off-line deliberation, I have started to adjust the model for deliberation. This time, I have integrated knowledge from the research on deliberation, in order to be relevant to the experts in deliberation. In 2012, with the help of Dr. Azi Lev-On, I organized conferences of experts in the field, and we discused a vrity of methods of deliberation. This was a boost for my experience, and led me to open this wiki. I hope we can build here theories that will explain the mechanism of deliberation, and will create a ground for developing edvance deliberation methods and on-line tools.