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 > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2019 5:10 AM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] excess meaning alert? (was, Re: are we how we behave?) > > Nick et al., "surplus meaning" was the term I was misremembering. > > Further replies to Nick's further questions later. > > > ============================================================ > 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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