Thanks, Cody,
I don’t think anybody is very good at this game. My whole project here is to study people’s responses and see if I can develop some rules for it. Your response is helpful. The hardest part of the game is identifying the last term, the “interpretant”. I am not sure a person or an organism is a proper term to fill into that slot, although many, many people will fill in people organisms there. I think the “proper” term is more like the question that the person or organism brings to the situation. So, in some sense, a territorial male robin is constantly asking himself about the objects in his territory, “Is this thing another bird; if so, is it a robin; if so, is it a male robin? So, I would say that the “interpretant” is the dimension of inquiry with which the territorial male robin approaches the objects in his territory, not the territorial male robin himself. But if I really knew, I wouldn’t be asking the question. Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of cody dooderson Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 9:41 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The Sign Game I am a total newbie to the sign game. What is considered a correct answer? I took a stab at the first question. What do you think? When a male robin enters the territorial male robin’s territory, the owner will display, sing, and approach the intruder. Experiments show that any tuft of red cotton mounted on brown wires will suffice to elicit this response. I would say the (S)ign is: A red fuzzy thing (O)bject: A male robin (I)nterpretant: Male robins are usually red fuzzy things. Cody Smith On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 12:09 AM, Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net <mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net> > wrote: Dear Members of the Local Congregation, There will be a short quiz tomorrow. (};-)] Please see attached. Nick ============================================================ 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-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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