Nick, Silly me, but I have to ask — are you sure?
Why I ask: Culture (environment) is altered by actions (fads?) of individual members and in turn alter the likelihood of adoption/mimicry of the fad by other members of the culture. Direct bi-lateral communication/copying of a behavior cannot account for 'global' change. Example: one woman makes a clay pot. Neighbor might take note and make one as well. But one-to-one propagation is insufficient to account for entire villages and regions suddenly transforming into pot making cultures. I know that you are speaking biologically and I am speaking anthropologically - but I think there are parallels that should not be excluded out of hand. Because I am ignorant in such matters I will not point out that epigenetics might be a camel's nose in the tent. I have posted two comments about heterarchy as I have encountered it in my professional work. Absent some disambiguation of "struggles" not sure how to contribute further. davew On Fri, Jan 4, 2019, at 8:14 AM, Nick Thompson wrote: > Dave, > > In the natural design perspectives, clothing styles are examples of > “fads”, structures or behaviors that are matched to the preferences of > fellow species members, not to the environment of the species. The > display structures in courtship are examples of such “fads.”> > Off to FRIAM. Hoping to see you there, even tho I know that hope is > forlorn.> > Still struggling with heterarchy. What think you on that, Dave? > > Nick . > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > Clark University > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > *From:* Friam [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Prof > David West *Sent:* Friday, January 04, 2019 6:52 AM *To:* > [email protected] *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Pondering...shoes and sweats > of all things> > Nick's work on Natural Design would be an obvious possibility. Less in > the paper he recently shared to the list than in the rest of the work > (five papers I think). Some evil genius has coopted his ideas and > learned to manipulate them.> > davew > > > > On Thu, Jan 3, 2019, at 5:13 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: >> Is this an experiment to see if we can identify some philosophical >> topic latent in the topic of casual clothing? How cycles of fashion >> can be compressed using a memory-less optimized quantum time >> evolution? Trying to find something to be opinionated about here. >> Failing.>> >> *From: *Friam <[email protected]> on behalf of Gillian >> Densmore <[email protected]> *Reply-To: *The Friday Morning >> Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> *Date: *Thursday, >> January 3, 2019 at 5:03 PM *To: *The Friday Morning Applied >> Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> *Subject: *[FRIAM] >> Pondering...shoes and sweats of all things>> >> I am seriously curiuse how it is that Puma can make pretty good >> regular seekers...for a bit cheeper than Nike.>> >> And who ever created the sweat pant. Was genius! comfortable can look >> great. and doesn't blow up ones budget.>> >> ============================================================ >> 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>> >> archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.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 > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
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