Orlando,
Orlando Leibovitz wrote:
essential. In this regard I am quoting Martha Graham to Agnes De
snip
I think they apply to scientific
creativity but I'm not sure.
What a wonderful quote, thanks!! And yes, I absolutey believe that good
science should be conducted in this way too.
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Hi,
Orlando here,
What
is it that allows
I agree that the intelligence of these people in relation to other people is
usually overrated.
I would take this a bit further...I would say that the intelligence of most
people is grossly underrated. I think the mindset that is looking for
insight in a few of us is missing the vast amount of
Couldn't disagree more. Examples of why, in my opinion, the aggregate
assessment of human intelligence is highly inflated:
1. Bush. Elected. Twice. (Florida vote count issue notwithstanding).
2. Americans continuing to buy fuel hogging cars even after the warning
supplied by the
I think being able to use mathematical symbology on the friam would be
wonderful but not if the syntax is not pliable to speak in new ways.
“One man’s rigor is another man’s mortis”
Bohren, Craig F. and B. A. Albrecht (1998). Atmospheric Thermodynamics.
Ann Racuya-Robbins wrote:
I
agree here againthe possibility of
ridicule and being willing to be considered a fool are involved in
original
insight (creativity). In fact even in this friam forum I have felt a
kind of
ridicule (you dont know anything about mathematics) when I am
Precisely, who is the man here which is the rigor which is the mortis?
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The Wisdom of Crowds posits 4 criteria for a crowd to be wise:
http://tinyurl.com/mbmnb
Diversity, Independence, Decentralized, Mechanism for aggregation.
-- Owen
On Aug 1, 2008, at 12:11 PM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
Couldn't disagree more. Examples of why, in my opinion, the aggregate
Sure. We could also meet at the Mission Café for lunch Wed, Thurs or Fri
next week would work for me.
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Ann Racuya-Robbins wrote:
Precisely, who is the man here which is the rigor which is the mortis?
It's possible to program a computer in English. It's also possible to
make an airplane controlled by reins and spurs.
John McCarthy, Father of Artificial Intelligence, Professor Emeritus
Stupid is as stupid does. -- Forrest Gump.
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On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Owen Densmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Wisdom of Crowds posits 4 criteria for a crowd to be wise:
People who wish to analyse nature without using mathematics
must settle for a reduced understanding.
- Richard Feynman
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mathematics must settle for misunderstanding. - Ken Lloyd ;)
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Ann Racuya-Robbins wrote:
I think this creative content emerges from two interacting “facts”
qualities of their experience:
1. Some people come to such an acceptance and trust in their own
sensibility, you might say their unique or individual sensibility,
that they use it every day and
People who wish to analyze nature without the ineffable must settle for
the understandable. Orlando Leibovitz
Ken Lloyd wrote:
People who wish to analyze nature with a reduced understanding of
mathematics must settle for misunderstanding. - Ken Lloyd ;)
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From:
Marcus,
If all of your email messages and all of your wisdom was always ignored,
would that be a problem for you?
O
Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
Ann Racuya-Robbins wrote:
I think this creative content emerges from two interacting “facts”
qualities of their experience:
1. Some people come
Orlando Leibovitz wrote:
If all of your email messages and all of your wisdom was always
ignored, would that be a problem for you?
I'm just responding to what I understood the proposed scenario to be:
A person develops an internal executive process and communicates it to
few other people.
Marcus,
Thanks. I agree.
O
Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
Orlando Leibovitz wrote:
If all of your email messages and all of your wisdom was always
ignored, would that be a problem for you?
I'm just responding to what I understood the proposed scenario to be:
A person develops an
After some 25 years of disinterest? Lets say the proof will be in the pudding.
On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 09:06:52AM -0600, Tom Johnson wrote:
All:
This might -- MIGHT -- be another answer to Owen's search for an equation
tool. See:
http://chronicle.com/free/2008/07/4049n.htm
and
While I am a big fan of Richard Feynman and a mathematician at heart
(and physicist by training), I have to note:
"People who limit their apprehension of nature to that
which can be analyzed by mathematics must settle for misapprehension"
- Steve
Mathematics is for those who are bad at
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