Geez, Robert. You aren’t going to actually REMEMBER anything I said at FRIAM. I count on the Geriatric Curtain of Forgetfullness.
His name was Donald Griffin <https://timikablalockdamr.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/animal-minds-by-donald-r-griffin.pdf> . Many people will say that he ADVANCED ethology 50 years. The bat work was good. But he started showing up at ethology meetings telling us how to think about animal consciousness, and that, on my account, as a behaviorist, was a VERY BAD THING. It was great to see you again. Mostly because you are you, but partly, I suppose, because of your British education, you have the capacity to hold ideas lightly and rotate them in our view, and that is a great talent to have at the table at FRIAM. Nick 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:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Holmes Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2018 10:54 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Complexity Returns to the Mother Church (or v.v?). Randall Munroe says this better than I ever could PHYSICISTS <https://xkcd.com/793/> By the way Nick, you mentioned a physicist who set ethology back 50 years. Who was it? On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 5:10 PM uǝlƃ ☣ <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: On 10/12/18 3:46 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: > 5. ... From the strength of the triangle one can infer something about the > parts that make it up, but from the parts themselves, lacking information > about their arrangement, one cannot determine that the triangle will be > strong. UNLESS! The information about how such parts *can* be arranged is deducible from the parts, themselves. E.g. regular vs. irregular tilings. -- ☣ 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
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