Nick,

This may help with manifold analogies.   Or should I phrase that
differently....
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/rosetta.pdf . See esp table 1, though most of
the paper is probably more than you want.

Carl


On Sat, Mar 9, 2019 at 10:20 AM Nick Thompson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Ok, so:  consider a corpse.  Is the skin of a corpse a manifold?  Now. Drop
> a shroud over that corpse, is the shroud a manifold?  Now, shrink wrap the
> corpse and carefully seal the edges.  Is it now a closed manifold?
>
> No, huh?  Well, ok.
>
> Nick
>
> Nicholas S. Thompson
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
> Clark University
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> Nick et al., "surplus meaning" was the term I was misremembering.
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