C’mon, guys.  Nick will only say that talk– even of the most vacant kind -- has 
effects that flapping the gums does not.  Please let’s not make me stupider 
than I already am.   

 

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Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology

Clark University

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From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Frank Wimberly
Sent: Sunday, June 7, 2020 3:49 PM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] millenarianism

 

What Nick will say is that the lip flapping is the concept or the feeling.to 
<http://feeling.to>  which I say "So you didn't feel or think them before you 
spoke?  BS and you know it."

 

On Sun, Jun 7, 2020 at 3:44 PM uǝlƃ ☣ <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

Well-said. My guess is that Nick can find falsifying evidence of his strawman 
rendering of the position. But I sincerely doubt he can falsify his steelman of 
it, were he to be so gracious as to form a steelman.

On 6/7/20 12:20 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
> Speaker End
> 
> Concept or Feeling
> |
> Flapping Lips
> |
> Ear
> |
> Similar (it is hoped) concept or Feeling
> 
> Listener End
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jun 7, 2020, 12:37 PM <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>  <mailto:[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]> >> wrote:
>     I was trying to retire gracefully from the field, but you are blocking my 
> retreat.  I actually can think of a hundred arguments against the proposition 
> that “talking is just flapping gums” and a hundred experiments to disprove it.
-- 
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