Glen, Hywel was Welch born particle physicist who came to rest at Los Alamos. He was a dedicated attender of the Mother Church, even though he thought we were all as silly as hens. His most famous line was, "It's more complicated than that" and out would come the pad of paper and the elegant pen and we would all be subjected to particle diagrams with Greek-lettered thisses and thatses flying off in various directions. He loved to taunt the mathematicians in the group with "Mathematics is ok but eventually you have to know something." He was a climate skeptic. He died a couple of years back. We miss him terribly, perhaps BECAUSE he drove us crazy.
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 glen?C Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2019 8:02 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FRIAM] flattening -isms I don't know this Hywel person. But number of things of a type is different from number of types of thing. 8^) Unless types of a thing are also things of a type. Channeling a modern teenager: That's so meta, dude. On 11/17/19 6:55 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > Channeling Hywel, I hope accurately: There is no irrational number of > things of any type in the Universe ============================================================ 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
