I think I want to be a Springbok! I feel as if I've slipped sideways
into the alternate reality presented in the movie _The Lobster_ .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK6i2Ivlphw
Ok, Marcus, I am standing my ground as a realist here: ():-[)
You cannot be against categories because you cannot TALK without
categories. “person” and “dog” are categories. Yes, the thought they
call up in me is inevitably wrong in some respect. I see you with
Korgies, but they are actually Irish Wolf Hounds. You cannot bake a
sentence without breaking some categories, yet the categories endure.
Something about the category is real.
So, if you are not against categorization, per se, and since all
categories do violence of one sort or another, you must be against
categories that do more violence than they do good. So, when I called
you a gazelle, what violence did I do? Would I have done better to
call you a Wildebeest? Would I be more or less disappointed in my
expectations had I called you a Springbok?
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
*From:*Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Marcus
Daniels
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Can you please stop labeling and categorizing things? Your labels
aren’t real. I am a person that supports the lifestyle of two dogs.
*From: *Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com
<mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com>> on behalf of Nick Thompson
<nickthomp...@earthlink.net <mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net>>
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*Date: *Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at 2:58 PM
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Marcus,
Well, see that just proves the point. Not only can I not speak your
lion-language, I accuse you of being a gazelle. I apologize to all
you lions out there. By the way, what DO you call yourselves?
N
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
*From:*Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Marcus
Daniels
*Sent:* Tuesday, January 08, 2019 2:20 PM
*To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
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*Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Motives - Was Abduction
Nick writes:
**
*“*Much better, perhaps, than I understand software engineers.”
I would be surprised if anyone in this conversation identifies as a
software engineer.
The complement of that to me seems weird: It’s like declaring a
person that can’t swim or drive a car, or would look in a manual to
use a hammer?
Marcus
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