Re: [FRIAM] is this true?

2019-03-13 Thread doug carmichael
what seems left out of the cause-effect connection js that depressed people have a reason to be depressed. certainly,y if someone is depressed because they lost a job or a child, we expect brain changes that are a natural part of the depression. (i think there are changes in brain chem after

Re: [FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 198, Issue 15

2019-12-20 Thread doug carmichael
And important part about I seeing is that you can’t see something if you didn’t look in that direction so the muscular system is involved in the circular process of looking seeing looking. doug > On Dec 19, 2019, at 10:18 PM, Nicholas Thompson > wrote: > >  > Which raises the question,

Re: [FRIAM] Murdoch and Trump

2020-01-21 Thread doug carmichael
the problem with the small plot of land approach 1. what to do in the winter? 2. given the number Of people who will try it, what about the supplier seeds? Are there enough? doug > On Jan 21, 2020, at 11:20 AM, Merle Lefkoff wrote: > >  > Thank you, Jochen. Excellent. Pieter: We can't

Re: [FRIAM] climate change questions

2020-01-01 Thread doug carmichael
Let’s say we are able to bring the price of solar generated electricity below that of electricity generated by fossil fuels. This leaves several important questions: Who pays for replacing the gas heater with an electric heater? That includes installation and remodeling costs as well

Re: [FRIAM] The theory of everything

2020-07-05 Thread doug carmichael
meaningful thoughts, as opposed to evocations, seem to me to require senences. How would you handle an issue like “The difference between math and dram in understanding each other?” with single words? doug > On Jul 5, 2020, at 4:42 PM, David Eric Smith wrote: > > Not good for me to do this,

Re: [FRIAM] detritus from vFRIAM

2020-07-03 Thread doug carmichael
There is ambiguity about what the self means and includes. There is a selfish self, a little self that is contained with us its own bubble and there is the big self that includes the world and all of its connections. As Ortega says I am I and my circumstances doug > On Jul 3, 2020, at 12:24

[FRIAM] intro

2020-06-27 Thread doug carmichael
Good to have joined you for the last part of Zoom yesterday. It was suggested that I post more of an introduction . I have been a long time lurker, maybe five years. So few more things about me. After my post doc at Harvard I went toMexico an spent three years with Erich Fromm at his Mexican

Re: [FRIAM] intro

2020-06-27 Thread doug carmichael
ch to Ecology and Development, and An Interview With an Old New > Realist. > > I will look at your stuff over the weekend. > > Welcome aboard! > > Nick > > Nicholas Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > Clark University > thompnicks...@gmail

Re: [FRIAM] intro

2020-06-27 Thread doug carmichael
the Golden Gate. > > You probably knew Dave Nichols. > > If curious, bio-info contained in My Descent from the Monkey, A Utopian > Approach to Ecology and Development, and An Interview With an Old New > Realist. > > I will look at your stuff over the weekend. &

Re: [FRIAM] Hard problem vs. free will

2020-06-28 Thread doug carmichael
On free will. Isn’t there a spectrum of predictability? She will get up in the morning and have coffee, but I am less sure about her reaction to the front page of today’s New York Times. That spectrum of predictability (people will stay on the socially sanctioned side of the road when driving)

Re: [FRIAM] GPT-3 and the chinese room

2020-07-28 Thread doug carmichael
> n > > Nicholas Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > Clark University > thompnicks...@gmail.com > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > From: Friam On Behalf Of doug carmichael > Sent: Monday, July 27, 2020 9:54 PM > To: The Frid

Re: [FRIAM] GPT-3 and the chinese room

2020-07-28 Thread doug carmichael
s://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > <https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/> > > > From: Friam mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com>> On > Behalf Of doug carmichael > Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 9:20 AM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity

Re: [FRIAM] GPT-3 and the chinese room

2020-07-27 Thread doug carmichael
I imagine playing chess, or go, with a computer. As I play I have a very enlivening experience of playing. The computer seems to have no such thing. For me, in my engagement, “Every neuron is listening to the mutter of the crowd.” Jerry Lettvin, MIT. If The computer goes on to win it has

[FRIAM] Fwd: Action Required: Confirm Your Groups.io Membership to Continue Receiving Group Emails

2024-01-14 Thread Doug carmichael
> Begin forwarded message: > > From: "Groups.io Notification" > Subject: Action Required: Confirm Your Groups.io Membership to Continue > Receiving Group Emails > Date: January 15, 2024 at 5:55:16 AM GMT+8 > To: d...@dougcarmichael.com > Reply-To: "Groups.io Reverification" > > > Hello, >