> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels > Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 12:37 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] recap on Rosen > > phil henshaw wrote: > > I guess what I'm talking about is that the 'bubbles in our minds' are > > different from the 'bubbles in the world'... > The `bubbles in our minds' must come from the world we witness and say > something about the world that will be witnessed. > They certainly don't need to be a literal interpretation. Of course, > in social matters, there's a question of art imitating life vs. life > imitating art..
[ph] A couple of the big differences are that the 'bubbles in our minds' are stitched together by personal and cultural values, and they have lots of things of the world which are continually changing represented by fixed images or definitions. The 'bubbles in the world' are organized around local physical processes, with lots of separate learning system parts, which learn by exploring pathways THEY find. The natural assumption then would be for their design to always be changing in ways we can't see at all without some hints of where to look. It's one of the deep problems of knowledge. Acknowledging it is mainly just a solution for denying it, but it also allows one to get a little warning about the systems of the world that are behaving independent of our models for them. Does that help? > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
