Marcus, Well, if you mean by a conclusion only that the subject is dropped, I guess I subscribe to the implication that I am always in favor of further conversation. However, to me a conclusion means more than silence. It means that the discussants understand one another's positions, could articulate the disagreement to one another;s satsifaction, and have agreed or agreed to disagree. Otherwise we are no more than the aforementioned foghorns.
N Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University ([email protected]) http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > [Original Message] > From: Marcus G. Daniels <[email protected]> > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > Date: 9/15/2009 11:20:55 PM > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] comm. (was Re:FW: Re:Emergence Seminar--BritishEmergence) > > Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > Before you responded to my message, you built a model of my mind. > I built a model of your utterance from immediate context. In my view, > it would not be useful for me to attempt to model your mind, as that > includes, among other things, your life memory, emotions, logical and > non-logical executive processes. Such a model would be very complex, > ill-informed by data available and comprehensible to me, and less > effective than asking for clarification on Emergence or communication or > whatever. > > If one tries to be aware of the different models that might be built on the > > same words, it helps to make a conversation more fruitful, I believe. > Is a fruitful conversation one that leads to more conversation, or to a > conclusion? > > Marcus > -- > "What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk > about we must pass over in silence." > Ludwig Wittgenstein > > ============================================================ > 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
