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I have M.Sc. in biology, and started Ph.D. in biology. While I was reading the scientific literature and participated in conferences, I have noticed that I difficulties following the logic in the scientific communication. When I tried to follow the logic from premiss to conclusions, it did not worked out. I have deepend my knowldge in logic, in order to see the logic in the papers but it didn't follow any roles of logic, I have learned. Therefore I have read Popper's book "The Logic of Scientific Discovery", but again, Popper's logic, was not the one that I found in the literature. 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, yet their writings did not pleased me. I thought it has critical nature but they can not explain the science I have experienced it 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 nudges nudge from the head of the program, I have started to show the model to researchers in philosophy. Most of them said in it is interesting, but it is to too new, but it is 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 for the development of a successful direct democracy and participatory democracy, so I have used my model to try to understand how "lay people" reason. Because I was no not restricted by philosophy, I could enter in o to my model also knowledge from brain research. After experiencing with real life deliberation, and experiencing 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 deliberation research filed, in order to be relevant to the experts in deliberation. In 2012, with the help of Dr. Azi Lev-On, we started meetings with I organized conferences of experts in the field, and discuses 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.