Thus spake Russ Abbott circa 09-09-16 03:29 PM: > I guess you too Glen. Just a note about these sorts of forums... you don't need to call out each person. If you post a question to the list, you're implicitly (perhaps unintentionally) inviting answers from everyone on the list.
> It seems to have become fashionable to act disparagingly toward the > notion of "real." What do you intend to substitute for it? I don't substitute anything for "real". I am a soft agnostic. Reality may be knowable; but I don't know it. All I can do is _approach_ it via parallax. In that sense, it's a bit like a horizon. It doesn't really have to exist in order to be useful. Hence, all statements of existence are speculation, conjecture, hypothesis, or thesis. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-modeling.com ============================================================ 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
