Steve, yes, thanks for this heads up about the arrival of Eric's and Harold Morowitz' book. I have been intrigued about and anticipating this book's arrival ever since watching those videos you shared with the forum last April presenting Eric's talk at the Aspen Institute on the (chemical) origins of life (metabolisms?). This, by the way, was your post within the "Origins of Life" thread started by Nick Thompson, then introducing the arrival of Nick Lane's book *THE VITAL QUESTION: Energy, evolution, and the origins of complex life*.
Eric, I hope to be eventually mingled among those readers of your book who can *try *to add "value" by way of subsequent discussions, writings, or (science) blogging. The origins of life--especially, in the context of homeostasis, which seems to me to be a fundamental universal principle--is a mesmerizing and attractive (though, not well understood) topic for me personally and I appreciate authors such as yourself who bring new research to us for consideration and education. For example, I have been on several note-taking strolls through the *Evolving Planet *exhibit at the Field Museum in Chicago. Perhaps, your book will help set the stage better for the time when organic life emerged on a hot, infant Earth. š I wish you the best for its reception among the trained geochemists and lay public. Not sure, but I think I am the culprit who, yesterday, unintentionally renamed the local Collected Works bookstore "Collective Works." In the immortal word of Rick Perry, "Oops." š Cheers, Robert On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 4:22 AM, Eric Smith <desm...@santafe.edu> wrote: > Hi Steve, and thanks for this, > > At present, no, I donāt have any planned promotionals in SF, and I am not > sure I can even make it through town this Autumn. For me as for you, CW is > the only bookstore I could think of as a natural venue for this. (I did > enjoy, though didnāt remark on, the pleasant Freudian/finger slip in > someoneās email (Leeās?) a day or two ago referring to it as Collective > Works (or maybe I was just not in the know on a standard joke)). > > Iāll hope that material is enjoyable or somehow useful. It was a hard > slog for the last two years to try to get a better background in the > geochemical literature that bears on this question, and my understanding of > that is still _much_ shakier than for some of the metabolism literature. > To trained geochemists' eyes this will glare immediately. But the great > thing I am learning is that value isnāt ācontainedā in a book; it is > created in its own form by each reader. So the limitations of the authors > arenāt as terminal as one would at first suppose. > > All best, > > Eric > > > > On Oct 21, 2016, at 1:56 PM, Steven A Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: > > > > Eric - > > > > Congratulations! Looks like a great jump forward in this literature! > I look forward to it! > > > > Any chance you will be holding a public reading with a local bookstore? > Or have a preferred local bookstore we could storm to make sure they carry > your book by buying a few? My goto of late is Collected Works... > > > > FRIAM (local?) do we have enough interest for a reading group to form > (again)? Is Nick back in town? > > - Steve > > > > On 10/21/16 10:36 AM, Stephen Guerin wrote: > >> Eric's book came up at FRIAM. here's a Amazon link, there may be a > better distributor. > >> "The Origin and Nature of Life on Earth: The Emergence of the Fourth > Geosphere" by Eric Smith, Harold J. Morowitz. > >> > >> Start reading it for free: http://amzn.to/2dGBsKs > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> ============================================================ > >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > >> to unsubscribe > >> http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
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