Thus spake [email protected] circa 10-02-16 01:34 PM: > I love reading the Friam stuff as fiction.  I think Joyceans call > it S tream of C onsciousness.  It would be very nic e  if people > provided specific support for their assertions.
All good fiction has its basis in fact.... otherwise it's not considered "good". ;-) So, if you enjoy FRIAM as fiction, then you implicitly admit there is some truth embedded within the fiction... unless, perhaps, you enjoy reading fiction you've deemed "bad fiction". That sounds to me like "rubber-necking" or schadenfreude, where seemingly normal people get a kick out of the misfortune of others. And if that's the case, then well, I'd have to argue that there still must be _something_ within the fiction you fundamentally enjoy, even if it's not what you'd call "truth". And if we take a Spinozan approach, then because you _enjoy_ it, it must be in some sense "good". So, even though you deem it "bad fiction", you actually think that its "good bad fiction", which again means that there must be some truth to the good bad fiction, otherwise you wouldn't enjoy it. [grin] Iterate at will. -- 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
