Glen and the congregation. I caught that news as well. A bit spooky, Leibnitz's Monads, then this came in https://aeon.co/essays/what-is-the-self-if-not-that-which-pays-attention?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=6898ffd7fb-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_411a82e59d-6898ffd7fb-69341065
A nicely presented piece... All while trying to coax my own AEE (Artificial Emergent Entity to behave congenially. It's too warm to think clearly lately. That is currently my focus , namely managing folder and subfolder creation with compact names using ahk Script... There seems to be a lot of fire within the Complexity Smoke lately from odd locations. vladimyr -----Original Message----- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ep ropella Sent: July-10-17 3:58 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: [FRIAM] Janus colloids Spontaneous system follows rules of equilibrium https://phys.org/news/2017-07-spontaneous-equilibrium.html > The research was spurred when Granick and Yan noticed something strange in > the laboratory. As they watched a random mixture of soft-matter particles > called Janus colloids, which Granick previously developed, they observed that > the particles sometimes sorted themselves by type. Named after the Roman god > with two faces, the micron-sized spheres have one hemisphere coated with a > thin metal layer. They self-propel in the presence of an electric field, and > when a rotating magnetic field is applied, they move in circles. In the > presence of these fields, about 50 percent of the colloids orient their > metal-coated hemisphere in the same direction. The remaining 50 percent face > in the opposite direction. -- glen ep ropella ⊥ 971-280-5699 ============================================================ 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 ============================================================ 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
