Nick, I will try to take notes and post them. I have sent you three emails (one was a resend of the first and the second was a note to check your spam filter for the other two). Re your group selection metaphor paper. davew
On Sun, Jun 18, 2017, at 10:46 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: > Dear Friammers, > > I understand that some members of the Mother Church are getting > together soon for a discussion on the role of Metaphor in Scientific > Thought. Hard for me to imagine a meeting that I would regret missing > more than this one. I hope that some of you will post some of your > deliberations under this thread so that those of us in the Friam > diaspora can have some of the value of them.> > FWLIW, The attached PDF is from a book manuscript, pieces of which > have been kicking around for more than 40 years, which Eric Charles > has been trying unsuccessfully to get me to pull together into > something publishable. If any of you is curious, the text will help > you to understand the things I said in the recent complexity > discussion and their relation to the “levels” discussion and the > metaphor discussion that follows. The specific discussion on metaphor > is late in the pdf, so that if that is what interests you, you can > safely skip to the first section on models. For me, a model is just a > scientific metaphor. Full stop.> > If anybody had comments to share, we, of course, would be deeply > grateful.> > There are more chapters. > > 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 > Email had 1 attachment: > * Introduction-nst-17-06-18b.pdf 774k (application/pdf)
============================================================ 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
