Sorry, it was not a criticism.   It was an observation which "ever so slightly"
illuminates the topic (for me, anyway). 

As Russ's observations move from the abstract and general (along with the rest of ours)
to the specific (your intentions), I feel a type of recursion in my own observation of
the situation.  

Recursion is not always bad... especially if/when it bottoms out.   I'm hoping that in
this discussion, there are only 2 levels of recursion... considering 1st/3rd person behavior
in the abstract/general and considering in the personal. 

In the abstract, your description is very "reasonable" to me, in the personal, it is hard to
accept, yet remains compelling.

- Steve
Steve, 

Please dont criticize; help.  If we are circling, summarize the positions. 
Locate points of agreement.  Isolate remaining issues.  Build!

Nick

Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, 
Clark University ([email protected])
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/




  
[Original Message]
From: Steve Smith <[email protected]>
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]>
Date: 6/18/2009 10:13:40 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Nick and dishonest behavior

I think we've started recursion here.

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