Please understand that the majority of FRIAM folks simply delete these
and press on.
Please understand that one or more FRIAMers politely asked for
summaries and did not receive them.
Please understand that "Please God no" is a form of netiquette. It is
a vote, not a censure.
I for one would expect more formalism in this discussion. I believe
most of your discussion could be placed in a set-theoretic framework
and I would prefer that.
Most philosophical discussions of this ilk simply end in semantic
deadly embrace. They are eventually resolved, if ever, at great cost
of word length. The Kolmodorov complexity is quite low:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
in that much compression could be attained.
That said, you must understand that "Please God no" is a very high
information content string that should be considered, not as censure,
but as information.
Do with it what you will.
-- Owen
On Jul 2, 2009, at 7:07 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Dear List,
Does one grumpy comment a consensus make?
I can see how the philosophy of mind, a qualia, etc., might not be
everybody's cup of tea, but certainly it's well within FRIAM's
domain and the discussion has drawn out some new and interesting
folks. Eh? (As we Canadians say?).
Back in a week.
N
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University ([email protected])
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Holmes
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Sent: 7/1/2009 5:42:59 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Direct conversation - 1st vs 3rd person
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Russ Abbott <[email protected]>
wrote:
<snip>
P.S. Since this is heating up again, I've added the list back to the
addressees.
Please God no.
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