Exhibit A: Life is that which wills to live /amongst that which wills to live ..../
Exhibit B: Symmetry Breaking in Vortices (and other "systems") Exhibit C: Donald Trump and his close affiliates: V our extended system of "manic hypercapitalism" On 7/3/20 1:12 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > In other words, there is some sense in which the notion of > Self-serving Action is incoherent. > > > > Nicholas Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > > Clark University > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > *From:* [email protected] <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Friday, July 3, 2020 1:07 PM > *To:* 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' > <[email protected]> > *Subject:* detritus from vFRIAM > > > > I tried to post this on the vFRIAM chat, but wouldn’t “take”, so I am > posting it here: > > > > “Don't do this now, but …. as a favor to me, could you-guys devote > some of your shaving time this week to the proposition: "No system > ever acts on its own behalf." My intuition is that whenever we > investigate a system that appears to act in its own behalf, we will > find that it is pursuing a goal that is short of the interest of the > whole, but which will produce benefits to the whole because of some > property of the world in which it acts. I would love to hear a > discussion among people trying to design _a system that acts on its > own behalf_. Can someone come up with a simple example of such a > system.” > > > > I grant you that the question is not clear. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Nick > > > > Nicholas Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > > Clark University > > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > > > > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
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