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On 8/17/18, 4:52 PM, "Friam on behalf of Barry MacKichan" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: Clusterf**k ? Oops, sorry, I was thinking of Trump. Also it’s after 5 on a Friday here on the east coast. --Barry On 17 Aug 2018, at 18:42, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote: > Bah! If you are, as I am, a post-modernist, explanatory power reduces > to evocative power. Whatever I can do to evoke a predictable response > in the audience is adequate. Although I count myself a fan of > Wittgenstein's STFU approach, I can't deny the power of those who just > never STFU. (Witness the interminable chants at the various pro-this, > anti-that rallies.) It's a kind of hypnosis ... a droning on and on > until you win over your audience with tone and rhythm more so than > content. > > But w.r.t. Zweigneiderlassung, I'm currently enthralled with McShea > and Brandon's concept of the ZFEL and "pure complexity", which (in my > ignorance) disallows reliance on "branching" as a core concept. > Simple counting seems more appropriate, especially since that makes > sense to most people. I admit that McShea and Brandon seem to be > relying fundamentally on some implicit spatial sense. But perhaps > that's OK in this context? > > On 08/17/2018 03:21 PM, Robert Holmes wrote: >> I always call it the Zweigneiderlassung. >> >> On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 4:14 PM Frank Wimberly <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> The explanatory power of all words is limited. See Wittgenstein. >>> Wovon >>> Mann nicht sprechen kann daruber muss Mann schweigen. > > -- > ☣ uǝlƃ > > ============================================================ > 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 ============================================================ 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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