James,
thanks for your input.
You are correct that I have only claimed so far that it is true of me, but Russ
is right that as soon as I have gotten Le Monde to claim that it is true of me,
that it is true of EVERYBODY, even you.
So, IF his ethical premises are correct, his concern for my humanity is well
founded.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University ([email protected])
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
----- Original Message -----
From: James Steiner
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Sent: 6/19/2009 11:04:45 AM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Nick and dishonest behavior
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
What is odd about this whole interchange is that I can't quite find the point
of view (all experience is 3rd person) Nick is promoting, but it feels that it
could very well be my own habit of experience and language.
What if everything Nick was saying was true (about the absense of true 1st
person) , but only for Nick, and other's like him for whom behaviorist ideas
make sense? What if, for Nick, there really is no there, there (or a "me"
here), but the idea doesn't make sense to others, because there is a "me"
there... (I'm sure this idea has been stated before, and it's distracting
nonsense, but I don't have much else to contribute, and I didn't think it'd be
right to just post, "mumble, mumble" so I could pretend I was participating)
~~James.
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