Doug
You read me wrong. I found it uninteresting, but assumed that if it interested you there MUST b e a reason, and that if I knew the reason, I, too, would find it interesting. Where we seem to disagree is on one of my most fundatmental ideas: if somebody finds something interesting, there must be an underlying question or issue to which the phenomenon has gotten attached in their mind that I WOULD find interesting if I knew it. I was asking you to expand my experience. Or not. Nick From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Douglas Roberts Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 5:09 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] So, *Are* We Alone? <Lilke> On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Bruce Sherwood <[email protected]> wrote: Uh, does there have to be a reason? I'm interested just because I am -- a portion of trying to understand as much about the Universe we inhabit as is possible. To put it another way: Why are you interested in the details of the definition or use of induction? I found that discussion massively uninteresting and irrelevant to the actual practice of science. There are many variants of philistinism, and of engagement. Bruce On Wed, Apr 4, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Nicholas Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > I go back to the original question I asked Owen. Why are these fantasies > INTERESTING?. Now, quickly, I have to admit, they don't capture my > imagination that well. But I also have to admit that I firmly believe that > NOBODY is interested in anything for nothing. IE, wherever there is an > interest in something, there is a cognitive quandary, a seam in our thinking > that needs to be respected. So I assume that there IS a reason these > fantasies are interesting [to others] and that that REASON is interesting. > The reason is always more pragmantic and immediate than our fighting off > being absorbed into a black hole. Speaking of which: Weren't the > Kardashians some race on some planet on StarTrek. What color where THEIR > noses? And how did the writers of StarTrek know they were coming > > > > Nick ============================================================ 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 -- Doug Roberts [email protected] [email protected] http://parrot-farm.net/Second-Cousins 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell
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