Sorry. I didn't mean anything nefarious with the "repeat a lie often enough" thing.
I introduced an onion as an example of a thing, in the real world, that you can look at in terms of levels or layers. And looking at it in terms of layers produces something different (and presumably more "natural") than looking at it in terms of levels. On 06/12/2017 12:17 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: > Look, Glen. I may be old. I may be stupid. I may be distracted. I am > certainly out of my depth. This discussion, which fascinates me, is > happening at a very inopportune time for me, so I am admittedly not able to > invest as much attention on it as it deserves and I would like. And the > discussion is going very fast, with answers falling all over other answers. > But I am NOT ill-willed or guileful. And I am certainly not Goebbels. Good > LORD! Try, whatever evidence to the contrary I may seem to present, to > assume that I am basically an honest person, and that we share an interest in > getting somewhere. AND -- the hard part -- I recognize that if we ARE to get > anywhere, everybody's thinking -- including my own -- is going to have to > change. > > > > OK. So, with all that in mind. Say again, would you please, what the onion > was doing in the discussion. Just to recap from my point of view, I think > the slice of an onion is a cross section. The notion of a cross-section > plays an important role in Holt's Concept of Consciousness, which describes > anybody's consciousness as a cross section cut through the world by that > person's behavior. My consciousness is just those features of the world to > which I respond. When we slice an onion the structure revealed says > something about BOTH the onion and about us, the slicer. The cross section > differs not only from onion to onion but because of how it was sliced. > > > > Now NONE of this has anything to do with what I mean by "levels" , which > invokes an organizational metaphor. I mean, hierarchical levels. I suspect > it will be almost impossible to talk about complexity without a language that > includes hierarchical levels. Remember, we got into this because I offered a > definition of a complex system as a system made up of other systems. So, on > my account, an onion IS a complex system because it is a system of plants, > each wrapped around another. -- ☣ glen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
