Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Cant tell if there is some guerinesque legpulling going on here.
Kinda, but I figured you were talking about William Gibson of
Neuromancer fame.
The Gibson I was thinking of was JJ Gibson, inventor of a psychology
in which all information is latent in the environment and the organism
'picks it up " by strategies of movement with respect to the
environment. this way of thinking, of course, turns perception into a
behavior, just teh way foraging is a behavior.
Gurdjieff taught that impressions are like food.
Where did you put the girl?
It's a pickup, dude - they got a flatbed.
Course they complain a lot when it rains,
but I ain't gonna get my huntin' dawg all
wet now, am I?
Nick
Nick
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No, I didn't even see "The Passion", though "Apocalypto" sounded cool.
Back in Alabama, our pickups only had room for a shotgun, a dawg &
a case of beer -
no room for information - never even missed it, come to think of it.
Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Bill,
I notice that you used one of the code words, information pickup. Are you
a gibsonian?
Nick
[Original Message]
From: Bill Eldridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: 5/29/2007 5:13:37 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Shift happens
Dogs hear much better than you.
Does it bother you that there are frequencies they hear and you don't?
As Buckminster Fuller notes, "space" is full of electromagnetic waves -
it's not really empty at all. Does it bother you that you can't see the
waves passing by?
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