Re: [FRIAM] questions continued - reply to glen

2008-03-18 Thread glen e. p. ropella
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Prof David West wrote: Major distraction prevented replying sooner. That's the beauty of e-mail! No cultural universals is the antidote to the disease of ethnocentrism Aha! I hadn't thought of that, at all. So, regardless of the finer points

[FRIAM] cultural universals, continued

2008-03-18 Thread Prof David West
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:24:18 -0700, glen e. p. ropella [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Would you mind citing an example of a culture that engaged in necro-cannabalism that acknowledges lineage? I was thinking of the Yanomami when I wrote this paragraph. I would have to return to grad school

[FRIAM] new Baez/Stay paper on category theory as ako Rosetta stone

2008-03-18 Thread Carl Tollander
Of possible interest to Category Theory buffs: John Baez and Mike Stay have a new paper entitled: Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation: A Rosetta Stone at: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/rosetta.pdf In the subsequent discussion at the N-Category Cafe at:

Re: [FRIAM] new Baez/Stay paper on category theory as ako Rosetta stone

2008-03-18 Thread Douglas Roberts
Ok, now you're really screwing with my mind. Joan C. (Chandos) Baez ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Baez) writing a paper on Physics, Topology, Logic and Computation? I think not. Bad boy, Carl. --Doug -- Doug Roberts, RTI International [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 505-455-7333 -

Re: [FRIAM] new Baez/Stay paper on category theory as ako Rosetta stone

2008-03-18 Thread Roger Critchlow
OMG, John is Joan's cousin, unless there are two mathematical physicists named John Baez, or someone's been spiking wikipedia. -- rec -- On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Douglas Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, now you're really screwing with my mind. Joan C. (Chandos) Baez (

Re: [FRIAM] new Baez/Stay paper on category theory as ako Rosetta stone

2008-03-18 Thread Steve Smith
Roger Critchlow wrote: OMG, John is Joan's cousin, unless there are two mathematical physicists named John Baez, or someone's been spiking wikipedia. -- re both seem about equally likely. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv