Re: [FRIAM] Happy Birthday

2015-04-14 Thread Jochen Fromm
Happy birthday Owen ;-) -J. Sent from my Tricorder div Original message /divdivFrom: Gillian Densmore gil.densm...@gmail.com /divdivDate:14/04/2015 21:02 (GMT+01:00) /divdivTo: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group friam@redfish.com,wedt...@redfish.com

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Schicksal

2015-11-04 Thread Jochen Fromm
Well, yes, the literal translation of "Airbus" is indeed "Luftbus", just as "Air Force" would be literally translated as "Luft Kraft" (which is named "Luftwaffe" actually, i.e. "Air Weapon"). -J. Sent from my Android Tricoder Original message From: Russell Standish

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Schicksal

2015-11-04 Thread Jochen Fromm
unds good.  -J. Sent from my Tricorder Original message ----From: Jochen Fromm <j...@cas-group.net> Date: 11/4/2015 23:15 (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Schicksal Well, yes, the literal t

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Schicksal

2015-11-04 Thread Jochen Fromm
+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Schicksal On Wed, Nov 04, 2015 at 11:43:34PM +0100, Jochen Fromm wrote: > > Of course nobody says "Luftbus". The official name of the brand is "Airbus". &g

[FRIAM] Cortana, Siri, Google Now

2015-09-04 Thread Jochen Fromm
Have you tried Cortana in Windows 10? What do you think, are digital assistants here to stay? Do you prefer Cortana, Siri or Google Now?  -J. Sent from my Tricorder FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe

Re: [FRIAM] Anyone from England

2016-06-26 Thread Jochen Fromm
olas S. ThompsonEmeritus Professor of Psychology and BiologyClark Universityhttp://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Jochen Fromm Sent: Saturday, June 25, 2016 3:47 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <fr

Re: [FRIAM] Anyone from England

2016-06-25 Thread Jochen Fromm
From what I heard David Cameron messed it up. He failed miserably. In order to get elected and to get rid of his right wing critics he promised the people this referendum where they can vote for or against the EU. If people had voted to remain in the EU it would have been a victory for him. It

Re: [FRIAM] Subjectivity and intimacy (lost in the weeks?)

2016-02-25 Thread Jochen Fromm
similarity of type.  And that might be mostly or entirely genetic rather than ontogenic. And I have to again be some sort of Morlockian champion for the irrelevance of thought.  2 strangers can be intimate and hold _radically_ different understandings of the world(s) presented to them ... at least

Re: [FRIAM] Subjectivity and intimacy

2016-02-20 Thread Jochen Fromm
Interesting. I like this definition that intimacy is defined in terms of subjectivity, i.e., the sharing of one's (most private) subjective experiences with another. Yes, there is a relationship between initimacy, privacy and subjectivity. The more private details we share with someone, the

Re: [FRIAM] Subjectivity and intimacy

2016-02-22 Thread Jochen Fromm
Nice to see FRIAM is still alive!  I like this definition as well: "Intimacy is just being so close that you see the same world from where you stand". In a family for example we are being so close that we roughly see and experience the same world. I still believe that the solution to the hard

Re: [FRIAM] Here's to the 1%!

2016-04-06 Thread Jochen Fromm
It reminds me of the Aztec and Roman empires who sacrificed and crucified people. In the Near East some groups like the Phoenicians even sacrificed children.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sacrifice I'm not aware of any human sacrifice in Ancient Egypt or Mesopotamia. The Egyptians practiced

[FRIAM] Psychology Is in Crisis Over Whether It’s in Crisis | WIRED

2016-03-04 Thread Jochen Fromm
Meanwhile in psychology...http://www.wired.com/2016/03/psychology-crisis-whether-crisis/ -Jochen Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to

Re: [FRIAM] Origins of Life

2016-04-24 Thread Jochen Fromm
The ocean vent theory is not new, or is it?  http://www.space.com/32379-life-building-blocks-deep-sea-vents.html IMHO it becomes more interesting when RNA and DNA is involved, that is to say when a code is involved. It is the same with ancient cultures, the stone age is barely interesting, it

Re: [FRIAM] Andy Rubin and the Actuated Internet — NewCo Shift — Medium

2016-04-14 Thread Jochen Fromm
Echo and love it! It's still pretty raw, but as a voice controlled radio, wikipedia, current information, ... it works rather well. Like with other voice controlled critters, it doesn't hurt to look up the stunts it can do and the right ways to ask.    -- Owen On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Joch

Re: [FRIAM] Andy Rubin and the Actuated Internet — NewCo Shift — Medium

2016-04-14 Thread Jochen Fromm
It's still pretty raw, but as a voice controlled radio, wikipedia, current information, ... it works rather well. Like with other voice controlled critters, it doesn't hurt to look up the stunts it can do and the right ways to ask.    -- Owen On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 10:21 AM, Jochen Fromm <j...

[FRIAM] Dalai Lama at a Santa Fe ski resort and the meaning of life

2016-04-16 Thread Jochen Fromm
The Dalai Lama in Santa Fe.http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2014/02/dalai_lama_at_a_santa_fe_ski_resort_tells_waitress_the_meaning_of_life.html -J. Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group

Re: [FRIAM] Andy Rubin and the Actuated Internet — NewCo Shift — Medium

2016-04-14 Thread Jochen Fromm
Looks interesting. Something like Amazon's Echo could be the next big thing for the smart home, what do you think? Does someone already own an Echo? It is not yet available in Europe. -Jochen Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Original message From: Tom Johnson

[FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings

2016-08-01 Thread Jochen Fromm
Recently there has been an increasing number of rampage killings and suicide attacks in Europe and America. One theory says that rampage killings are related to pathological narcissism. The perpetrators are often offended narcissistic outsiders who want to restore their crippled sense of

Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings

2016-08-01 Thread Jochen Fromm
n 9 Director t...@jtjohnson.com   505-473-9646 === On Aug 1, 2016 2:53 AM, "Jochen Fromm" <j...@cas-group.net> wrote: Recently there has been an increasing number of rampage killings and suicide attacks in Europe and America. On

Re: [FRIAM] Narcissism and Mass Shootings

2016-08-01 Thread Jochen Fromm
AM, Tom Johnson <t...@jtjohnson.com> wrote: Yes, and it also could explain Trump's "verbal violence." === Tom Johnson - Inst. for Analytic Journalism Santa Fe, NM SPJ Region 9 Director t...@jtjohnson.com   505-473-9646

[FRIAM] And so it begins: the dark times

2017-01-21 Thread Jochen Fromm
First it was not clear what *-ism mix it will be - authoritarianism, nepotism, cronyism, nationalism or a mixture of it. Sarah Kendzior and Paul Krugman predict we will end up in an authoritarian dictatorship. What do you think, which *-ism will it be? Maybe you could say the new minority

Re: [FRIAM] And so it begins: the dark times

2017-01-21 Thread Jochen Fromm
erman wrote in the 1993 decision, “So, for example, a President would be barred from appointing his brother as Attorney General, but perhaps not as a White House special assistant.” --- Eric P. Charles, Ph.D. Supervisory Survey Statistician U.S. Marine Corps On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 4:5

Re: [FRIAM] And so it begins: the dark times

2017-01-21 Thread Jochen Fromm
aps not as a White House special assistant.” --- Eric P. Charles, Ph.D. Supervisory Survey Statistician U.S. Marine Corps On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 4:57 AM,

Re: [FRIAM] [[Narcissism Again]again]

2017-01-28 Thread Jochen Fromm
Yes, agree. Trump’s point of view is “Whatever I can win with is true.”  And if he wins with what we call “a lie”, it is true for him. Exactly. If you ask how we can counter and resist him, then I would say peaceful protests are the right way. The women's march was impressive, and the rebellion

[FRIAM] How we can make the COUNTRY great again

2017-01-28 Thread Jochen Fromm
Eric Schmidt posted an interesting article about the digital divide in both urban and rural America on Google+ and Twitter recently (I don't use Facebook).https://goo.gl/GYrBGgDo the digital divide and the urban-rural divide have something in common? Here in Germany they seem to have a lot in

Re: [FRIAM] And so it begins: the dark times

2017-01-21 Thread Jochen Fromm
because “he says what he thinks,” whereas Clinton was measured and thoughtful, which these people took to be “phony.” It’s certainly a civil war between the Type 1 and the Type 2 thinkers.   On Jan 21, 2017, at 2:52 PM, Jochen Fromm <j...@cas-group.net> wrote: I have watched the large demonst

[FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-17 Thread Jochen Fromm
In 2011 there was a press conference where president Obama roasted Trump and mocked about his competence. Trump was sitting in the audience and didn't laugh. For a person with a narcissistic personality disorder this must have been a traumatic experience. Maybe this was the moment where he

Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders

2017-01-17 Thread Jochen Fromm
: Re: [FRIAM] The root of personality disorders If you want to psychoanalyze Trump, you might start before he was sent to the NYMA.  I.e., WHY did his father send him there ? -J On 1/17/17 2:43 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote: In 2011 there was a press conf

Re: [FRIAM] Please Help. Was it a dream?

2016-12-10 Thread Jochen Fromm
Deliberate creation of "fake news" is a new trend that may have contributed to polarization of society, especially in poor countries at the edge of the first world like Macedonia 

Re: [FRIAM] Is the new president mentally ill?

2017-01-11 Thread Jochen Fromm
etent people surrounding him, the more likely we'll end up with a Bush2 or a late-stage-Reagan ... maybe not good, but not catastrophic. On 01/11/2017 03:34 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote: > Eric I believe you are wrong if you believe you can have a narcissistic > person on your site. A nar

[FRIAM] Is the new president mentally ill?

2017-01-10 Thread Jochen Fromm
I posted this on Google+, since we have a lot of psychologists here you might be interested too? Psychologists, therapists and mental health professionals seem to be fascinated and terrified alike by the new president who has not only become a brand, but is nothing but a brand: 1. he seems to

Re: [FRIAM] Is the new president mentally ill?

2017-01-11 Thread Jochen Fromm
se? If we are lucky, we have an effective narcissist on our side. If we are unlucky we have a reasonably competent businessman, in way over his head. Either way, I'm not worried he'll launch a nuke in week 2. --- Eric P. Charles, Ph.D. Supervisory Survey Statistician U.S. Marine Corps

Re: [FRIAM] Is the new president mentally ill?

2017-01-11 Thread Jochen Fromm
's the point of diagnosing him? On Jan 10, 2017 11:55 PM, "Jochen Fromm" <j...@cas-group.net> wrote: I posted this on Google+, since we have a lot of psychologists here you might be interested too? Psychologists, therapists and mental health professionals seem to be fascinated an

[FRIAM] Divided America

2016-12-04 Thread Jochen Fromm
In Europe people are shocked about the results of the American presidential election. What is your opinion in NM, will the new president Trump make America great again or will he lead America into some form of cronyism, nepotism, fascism or even totalitarianism? American itself seems to be

Re: [FRIAM] Autocracy: Rules for Survival | by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

2016-12-04 Thread Jochen Fromm
Yes, looks interesting (somehow my mail client does not show all FRIAM mails, for instance I don't see Nicks mails, I have only received Merles response?).  From a complexity science viewpoint the development in the US is interesting, whether it will be a step back into an oligarchy or

Re: [FRIAM] Hope or Despair

2017-01-07 Thread Jochen Fromm
is was a smart thing to do for the techies, but it is hardly surprising that they were not overly gruntled about the conclave.  So your comment about them resembling Ring-wraiths is spot on.  But it certainly does not mean that the meeting represented any sort of endorsement of the Donald. On Sa

[FRIAM] Hope or Despair

2017-01-07 Thread Jochen Fromm
Many scientists and journalists feel desperate now that Mr. T-Rump will rule the world, especially climate scientists like Eric Holthaushttps://twitter.com/EricHolthaus/status/817503888500633600 What are we going to do, hope or despair, resist or surrender? I'm not sure if we are heading

Re: [FRIAM] What should we do?

2017-01-05 Thread Jochen Fromm
Interesting. Unfortunately the cancer of fascism (Trumpism?) has already broke out in the US now, the only way to stop the cancer of Nazism in Nazi Germany was to destroy the whole country by "surgery" and bombardment. Good luck. Chemotherapy means killing the fast replicating cells, this would

[FRIAM] bit-player

2017-08-12 Thread Jochen Fromm
I've read on Twitter that Brian Hayes was in Santa Fe this week and visited the SFI. I suggested him to contact Owen if he is interested in taking part in a FRIAM meeting. Do you still meet on friday morning to discuss complex systems in one of the cozy and trendy Santa Fe cafes? Anyway, here

[FRIAM] The apocalypse

2017-08-09 Thread Jochen Fromm
What's the matter with your president? I am worried we are heading to the apocalypse. The "fire and fury" threat feels like the Cuban missile crisis or worse.http://blog.cas-group.net/2017/08/the-apocalypse/ And then there is the issue of global warming which the Trump administration ignores

Re: [FRIAM] The apocalypse

2017-08-09 Thread Jochen Fromm
I doubt that North Korea has the ability to hit a tiny island like Guam in the Pacific, but it can without doubt destroy the 9 million capital Seoul near the border with weapons bought from Russia or China.  The danger of a nuclear apocalypse is greatest when the world has forgotten how

Re: [FRIAM] Climate Change

2017-12-29 Thread Jochen Fromm
s “our” fault.   Nick  Nicholas S. ThompsonEmeritus Professor of Psychology and BiologyClark Universityhttp://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/  From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Jochen Fromm Sent: Friday, December 29, 2017 1:23 AM To: The Friday Morning App

Re: [FRIAM] Climate Change

2017-12-29 Thread Jochen Fromm
Hippos in Cologne? Well... Some countries like Russia may think climate change is good because it is too cold there anyway. But the effects would be devastating on a global scale.  IMO it is not about models. Models are complicated and controversial. Climate change in the artic is a fact,

Re: [FRIAM] Awesome! one step closer to startreky inetneret

2018-01-12 Thread Jochen Fromm
Subspace communication! Is there anything from Star Trek that has not become a reality? VR Headsets allow Beaming and Holodecks, smartphones are communicators and tricorders, .. This is why I was disappointed by the new Star Trek Discovery series. They show nothing new, only well-known Klingons

[FRIAM] Many Interacting Worlds

2018-01-12 Thread Jochen Fromm
What do you think of the "Many Interacting Worlds" theory? Russ shared it on Google+http://bigthink.com/scotty-hendricks/a-new-hypothesis-suggests-that-parallel-universes-might-interact-after-all The idea is that interactions between many interacting classical worlds lead to quantum effects in

[FRIAM] Climate Change

2017-12-29 Thread Jochen Fromm
This is what Donald wrote on Twitter tonight:"In the East, it could be the COLDEST New Year’s Eve on record. Perhaps we could use a little bit of that good old Global Warming that our Country, but not other countries, was going to pay TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS to protect against. Bundle

Re: [FRIAM] looking for a word

2018-08-18 Thread Jochen Fromm
They say Germans have a word for everything because we can chain words together like pearls on a string. In German I would say "Netzwerkverzweigung" (network-branching/bifurcation) or "Netzwerkverdichtung" (network-consolidation/concentration). In one case the density decreases, in the other

Re: [FRIAM] Is this list dead now

2018-07-11 Thread Jochen Fromm
I like the list. Keep it going! Greetings from BerlinJochen null 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

Re: [FRIAM] 2019 - The end of Trumpism

2018-12-27 Thread Jochen Fromm
A really nice observation: "Trump supporters are not individualists, they are just people trying to recover privilege they didn’t earn and now see slipping away" The same phenomenon can be observed in racism, sexism and nationalism everywhere, not just in America. It happens for instance in

Re: [FRIAM] 2019 - The end of Trumpism

2018-12-27 Thread Jochen Fromm
ust a better thinker than everyone else ... or I've heard it called the Comprehensive Designer by this guy: https://youtu.be/5gnlhmaM-dM Do we need these archetypes?  Do we *need* the many rabble in order for the elite few to become "individuals"? On 12/27/18 1:45 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote

Re: [FRIAM] Newly published paper

2019-01-01 Thread Jochen Fromm
Congratulations. Looks interesting! And happy new year to Debora and you, and the rest of the FRIAM list.  -Jochen null FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe

Re: [FRIAM] Venice to charge day-trippers for access to city center | News | santafenewmexican.com

2019-01-06 Thread Jochen Fromm
There are far too many tourists in Venice, and the cruise ships are monsters that destroy the city. Clearly a step in the right direction.  Venice itself is quite beautiful. A lot of Vivaldi concertos, Cicchetti bars, and Vaporetti stations (a Vaporetto is a kind of water bus). Venice is famous

Re: [FRIAM] Doug Robert's death

2018-12-16 Thread Jochen Fromm
I'm sorry to hear that. Sincere condolences from Germany,   Jochen Original message From: Tom Johnson Date: 12/16/18 07:28 (GMT+01:00) To: "Friam@redfish. com" Subject: [FRIAM] Doug Robert's death I picked this up from Facebook. A talented, lovely guy. I will miss his

[FRIAM] 2019 - The end of Trumpism

2018-12-26 Thread Jochen Fromm
Merry christmas and a happy new year 2019! I hope Mueller will finish his report in 2019 and I assume president Trump will either resign or be impeached like Nixon, since the House belongs now to the democrats (Did you know "Mueller" is the German version of "Miller" btw? As you know a miller

Re: [FRIAM] 2019 - The end of Trumpism

2018-12-26 Thread Jochen Fromm
t will end and we’ll all learn an important lesson?        Whew, I was worried there for a minute!   Thanks,   Marcus   From: Friam on behalf of Jochen Fromm Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Date: Wednesday, December 26, 2018 at 6:53 AM To: The Friday Morning Appli

Re: [FRIAM] The Friendship That Made Google Huge | The New Yorker

2018-12-09 Thread Jochen Fromm
The "other guy" is Sanjay Ghemawat. Together they wrote MapReduce and have become legends. Unfortunately you hear much more about Jeff than about Sanjay. I would like to hear more from Sanjay. I also doubt that pair programming is a solution for all problems. The really creative parts often

Re: [FRIAM] models, reality, etc.

2019-01-12 Thread Jochen Fromm
Some say entanglement is related to spacetime itself. There was a Quanta magazine article about it recently.https://www.quantamagazine.org/time-entanglement-raises-quantum-mysteries-20160119/ -Jochen Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Original message From: Marcus Daniels

Re: [FRIAM] Venice to charge day-trippers for access to city center | News | santafenewmexican.com

2019-01-06 Thread Jochen Fromm
/editand the Birraria La Cortehttp://birrarialacorte.it/near his shared office!    -- Owen On Sun, Jan 6, 2019 at 1:40 PM Jochen Fromm wrote: There are far too many tourists in Venice, and the cruise ships are monsters that destroy the city. Clearly a step in the right direction.  Venice itself

Re: [FRIAM] do animals psychologize?

2018-09-15 Thread Jochen Fromm
In my Tuscany vacation this year I've read among other books the biography from Michael White about "Leonardo da Vinci". He writes (on p. 130) that Leonardo was a vegetarian 500 years before such a lifestyle became common, and explains his reason: "He believed that anything capable of movement

Re: [FRIAM] Quantum Computing

2019-01-27 Thread Jochen Fromm
ere is a long road ahead to bring this technology to practitioners. The CMOS-based computing systems we all use are a miraculous accomplishments of humans, and are easy to take for granted.   One of the national labs here in New Mexico actually owns an AQC system.   Marcus   From: Friam on beh

[FRIAM] Cognitive Dissonance

2019-02-21 Thread Jochen Fromm
Donald Trump should make every psychologist happy. First he is a perfect example of a person with narcissistic personality disorder (NPD). Second his attacks on the press are a good example of the theory of cognitive dissonance, first proposed by Leon Festinger in 1957. When confronted with

[FRIAM] Quantum Computing and Spacetime

2019-01-29 Thread Jochen Fromm
Natalie Wolchover writes about Quantum Computing and Spacetime. I like her articles, but this one is a bit far fetched, isn't it ?https://www.quantamagazine.org/how-space-and-time-could-be-a-quantum-error-correcting-code-20190103/ -Jochen 

Re: [FRIAM] Everything she knows...

2019-04-16 Thread Jochen Fromm
I would say any human individual serves multiple genes at once. First the normal, biological genes. The selfish genes as Dawkins called them. Then the other, hidden genes. I have written a book about it named "The secret genes" which I'm publishing now, this month. It is about the secret genes

Re: [FRIAM] Everything she knows...

2019-04-16 Thread Jochen Fromm
About the last point 14, death: I believe the best way to fight against the destructive force of death is to be creative, to create something. It is what genes repeatedly do. They create bodies as survival vehicles for themselves, again and again. As Barack Obama said about Notre Dame "It’s in

Re: [FRIAM] Everything she knows...

2019-04-17 Thread Jochen Fromm
a different land.   Then she must be pulled and then your siblings.    These social genes make me think of dynamics like this.   The rate that progress can occur toward the global optimal is diminished given an the insistence of maintaining group coherence.   From: Friam on behalf of Joche

Re: [FRIAM] Everything she knows...

2019-04-17 Thread Jochen Fromm
pened before that" that I had to straighten out.---Frank WimberlyPhone (505) 670-9918On Tue, Apr 16, 2019, 12:43 PM Jochen Fromm wrote:About the last point 14, death: I believe the best way to fight against the destructive force of death is to be creative,

[FRIAM] Australian Rolling Stones

2019-05-13 Thread Jochen Fromm
I've been listening to "Jet" recently. They sound a bit like the Australian Rolling Stones, don't you think? https://youtu.be/aZNXNJ-tAgICheers, Jochen FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's

[FRIAM] Chariot Allegory

2019-05-09 Thread Jochen Fromm
Nick,IIRC you said you would like to hear more metaphors and allegories. A while ago you have asked if code & coding could be a relevant metaphor for the mind or the brain. I think yes. Code is essential. Here is why.In programming writing code means basically creating one command after

Re: [FRIAM] Reasons why we elect narcissists

2019-05-08 Thread Jochen Fromm
Reagans and Nixons.Both were basically pretty close to being Narscistic, or at least trolling well enough for them to think their BS was worth buying into.On Wed, May 8, 2019 at 5:55 AM Jochen Fromm wrote:Given that the 45th president clearly shows  signs of severe NPD, which we discussed a

Re: [FRIAM] Visual Migraines

2019-05-07 Thread Jochen Fromm
I guess Stu means Stuart Kauffman? He is 79 years old already but has written another book about the emergence and evolution of life called "A world beyond physics"https://global.oup.com/academic/product/a-world-beyond-physics-9780190871338?cc=de=enNot sure if this fits to the subject "Visual

Re: [FRIAM] words RE: words

2019-05-07 Thread Jochen Fromm
To me it looks like trolling Glenhttps://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Trolling-Jochen Original message From: uǝlƃ ☣ Date: 5/7/19 21:38 (GMT+01:00) To: FriAM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] words RE: words No. Again, I would never say that. Why are you interacting this way?

[FRIAM] Fascination and frustration

2019-05-06 Thread Jochen Fromm
Nick's "simultaneous fascination and frustration with FRIAM" sounds like a recipe for complex discussions. Why exactly is Nick frustrated? -Jochen null FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's

[FRIAM] Fascination and frustration

2019-05-06 Thread Jochen Fromm
Nick, if you are looking for an adequate explanation of (self-)consciousness then a simultaneous fascination and frustration might not be a completely wrong. IMHO self-consciousness is marked by this strange combination of opposites: a fascinating insight in a frustrating confusion. Fascinating

[FRIAM] Reasons why we elect narcissists

2019-05-08 Thread Jochen Fromm
Given that the 45th president clearly shows  signs of severe NPD, which we discussed already 2 years ago, I thought you would perhaps be interested in this Psychology Today article titled "4 Reasons Why We Elect Narcissists and

Re: [FRIAM] Reasons why we elect narcissists

2019-05-08 Thread Jochen Fromm
Interesting. What is the difference between episodic and diachronic personalities?-Jochen Original message From: Marcus Daniels Date: 5/8/19 19:40 (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Reasons why we elect narcissists Glen

Re: [FRIAM] New Mexico Legacy

2019-04-25 Thread Jochen Fromm
ional history.On Apr 25, 2019, at 12:20 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:Today the book from Frank arrived, after I ordered it at Amazon recently, and I have read it in the evening. When I read the name "Kayser" of the grandparents I thought they must have a German background, since "Kai

[FRIAM] New Mexico Legacy

2019-04-25 Thread Jochen Fromm
Today the book from Frank arrived, after I ordered it at Amazon recently, and I have read it in the evening. When I read the name "Kayser" of the grandparents I thought they must have a German background, since "Kaiser" is the German word for emperor. (One of my German colleagues is named

Re: [FRIAM] John Steinbeck in the 21st century

2019-10-27 Thread Jochen Fromm
ased on habitat and foodweb relations) within his purview (the range of the Pacific coast along the North American coast from Bering Sea to Panama).On 10/23/19 3:39 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:I recently stumbled upon John Steinbeck's classic novel "The Grapes of Wrath" and wonder if it is

Re: [FRIAM] My new book

2019-10-21 Thread Jochen Fromm
Looks awesome, I will order a copy. Looking forward to read books from the other FRIAM members as well. -J. Original message From: Pamela McCorduck Date: 10/21/19 06:16 (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM] My new book Please

[FRIAM] John Steinbeck in the 21st century

2019-10-23 Thread Jochen Fromm
I recently stumbled upon John Steinbeck's classic novel "The Grapes of Wrath" and wonder if it is similar to the situation today. You will all know it since it is often read in High Schools, right? (I had to read Goethe in School. And "Animal Farm" plus "To kill a Mocking Bird" in the English

Re: [FRIAM] John Steinbeck in the 21st century

2019-10-25 Thread Jochen Fromm
e differences based on habitat and foodweb relations) within his purview (the range of the Pacific coast along the North American coast from Bering Sea to Panama). On 10/23/19 3:39 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote: I recently stumbled upon John Steinbeck's cla

[FRIAM] Murdoch and Trump

2020-01-18 Thread Jochen Fromm
Trump's channel Fox News is owned by the Australian Murdoch family. Can two families ruin the entire planet? Trump in America and Murdoch in Australia are creating tremendous damage. If Climate Change leads to an uninhabitable world, as David Wallace-Wells describes in his book, these two

Re: [FRIAM] Murdoch and Trump

2020-01-20 Thread Jochen Fromm
10 years ago we had 10 degrees below zero in Berlin and several days of snow. This winter we had not a single day of snow. Not a single one. The arctic is melting, Australia and California are burning like never before and Brasil is destroying the last pieces of its precious rain forest.And the

Re: [FRIAM] The Self Case

2020-04-10 Thread Jochen Fromm
I don't know the difference between "nomothetic" and "idiographic", but I am interested in the area between idiosyncratic, irregular descriptions and symmetric, regular theories. History is often the former, an idiosyncratic description of events and names specific for a certain time and

Re: [FRIAM] anthropological observations

2020-04-13 Thread Jochen Fromm
I believe the cultural divide between China and the US is bigger than the cultural divide between US and EU. At the moment I'm reading "River Town" from Peter Hessler, an American who spent 2 years for the Peace Corps as an English teacher in Fuling, Sichuan. Sichuan is located in the west of

Re: [FRIAM] anthropological observations

2020-04-14 Thread Jochen Fromm
Yes, it was not a real publisher, just a self-publishing company where you can publish anything. I cancelled the contract because you need to pay every year. It was a sort of trial balloon to see if anybody is interested in the topic which I believe is quite explosive. Actually nobody was

[FRIAM] The fundamental theory of physics

2020-04-15 Thread Jochen Fromm
What do you think of Stephen Wolfram's latest findings? It is always interesting to see what he is doing IMHOhttps://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-have-a-path-to-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics-and-its-beautiful/-J..-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -..

Re: [FRIAM] The fundamental theory of physics

2020-04-15 Thread Jochen Fromm
Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The fundamental theory of physics Wasn’t John Baez doing this stuff in the late 90s?   From: Friam on behalf of Jochen Fromm Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Date: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 at 11:37 AM To: The Friday Morning

Re: [FRIAM] The fundamental theory of physics

2020-04-16 Thread Jochen Fromm
istakes.On Wed, 15 Apr 2020 at 20:37, Jochen Fromm wrote:What do you think of Stephen Wolfram's latest findings? It is always interesting to see what he is doing IMHOhttps://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-have-a-path-to-the-fundamental-theo

Re: [FRIAM] anthropological observations

2020-04-13 Thread Jochen Fromm
America under Trump moves clearly towards an authoritarian system. When she was a graduate student in Anthropology, Sarah Kendzior studied authoritarianism in Uzbekistan. As she describes in her book "Hiding in plain sight", what she saw when Trump emerged was oddly familiar with the things she

Re: [FRIAM] Judea Pearl: Book of Why

2020-04-19 Thread Jochen Fromm
"I think it would be wise to watch the evolution of the virus over time within people and across people"Scientists do this already, and they found out for instance that most NY cases came from Europe, not from China directly. Carl Zimmer reported about it in the NY Times. This is the article

[FRIAM] Writing can be good for you

2020-04-06 Thread Jochen Fromm
I just read this on "Psychology Today" : keeping a journal and writing about difficult experiences can have health benefitshttps://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/prescriptions-life/201912/journaling-about-trauma-and-stress-can-heal-your-body-J...-. . . -.. / - . / -- --- .-. .-.. --- -.-.

[FRIAM] Tribal nations could be wiped out by virus

2020-04-02 Thread Jochen Fromm
New Mexico's governor warns tribal nations could be 'wiped out' by coronavirus - according to ABC News https://abcn.ws/2xxoQlk-J..-- --- .-. . .-.. --- -.-. -.- ... / --- ..-. / ..-. .-. .. .- -- / ..- -. .. - . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom meeting Fridays 9:30a-12p Mountain USA

Re: [FRIAM] tom did you ditch the meeting

2020-04-03 Thread Jochen Fromm
I was kicked out, too :-) Thanks for letting me join, though. As a developer I am not a very talkative person, but I always like to listen to your discussions. Would like to hear more about psychology next time - NPD disorders for instance (individual no 1), or what the virus means from a

[FRIAM] Mild vs. Severe Symptoms

2020-03-27 Thread Jochen Fromm
Jeremy Egner, a NY Times editor, has been infected and hospitalized in NYC. He gives those who are seriously ill from the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus a voicehttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/sunday-review/coronavirus-hospitalized.htmlHere in Europe he would be the exception, many politicians and

Re: [FRIAM] Mild vs. Severe Symptoms

2020-03-28 Thread Jochen Fromm
this though. I hope this reads as the postive note its meant to be: this whole damn thing is showing humans can put bulshit aside against a world ending disaster.  On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 4:56 PM Jochen Fromm wrote:Jeremy Egner, a NY Times editor, has been infected and hospitalized in NYC. He gives

Re: [FRIAM] YIKES!: Coronavirus New Mexico numbers.xlsx

2020-04-02 Thread Jochen Fromm
Do you have a Zoom meeting tomorrow again?-J. Original message From: thompnicks...@gmail.com Date: 4/2/20 05:01 (GMT+01:00) To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' Subject: [FRIAM] YIKES!: Coronavirus New Mexico numbers.xlsx Not good for the theory.  Yes,

[FRIAM] Shakira and Plato

2020-04-23 Thread Jochen Fromm
Shakira says she has finished a Coursera course about "Ancient Philosophy - Plato and his Predecessors". If Shakira can do it, we can too ;-)https://twitter.com/shakira/status/1253351137866104834-J..-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... . ... FRIAM

Re: [FRIAM] ill-conceived question

2020-05-02 Thread Jochen Fromm
The economy is collapsing right now. It has positive side effects like clean air in L.A. and Beijing, but right now it is collapsing.-J. Original message From: Frank Wimberly Date: 5/2/20 18:47 (GMT+01:00) To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re:

Re: [FRIAM] Warring Darwinians for Glen, Steve

2020-04-26 Thread Jochen Fromm
Hi Nick,have you thought about turning your ideas about the hard problem of consciousness into an article or book? 10 years ago you had this nice idea of a cross section of reality, a unique slice of the same world that is responsible for our subjective experience. Our discussion in 2010

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