It is nice to see another person admit to their premature registration! Thanks. I brought up an onion as an example of a thing that, when analyzed with levels produces a different result than when analyzed with layers.
You have to admit that slicing an onion produces different results than prying off its layers one by one. Rigth? On 06/12/2017 10:01 AM, Steven A Smith wrote: > I always appreciate your corrections. You are naturally the only one who > really knows what you meant when you brought it up. I thought I remembered > that you invoked the onion and it's layers to try to explain your distinction > between levels and layers and the utility of the same in the discussion of > Complexity Science. > > I know how to slice onions with a knife, I've even been known to crush small > ones like a garlic clove, and have even run them through a blender for > various culinary purposes, but in this discussion, I can't think why we would > have been talking about an onion if not as the source domain for a metaphor. > Why were we talking about an onion? I remember a discursion into or near > the embryological implications of how onions form their layers? -- ☣ glen ============================================================ 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
