Re: [FRIAM] holism vs. reductionism, again

2010-04-01 Thread glen e. p. ropella
Victoria Hughes wrote circa 10-03-31 09:29 PM: How can you identify in the moment which aberrations will lead to evolution, versus which aberrations will lead to atrophy? It's not clear to me that there's a difference between evolution and atrophy. It seems to me that atrophy is just one of

Re: [FRIAM] holism vs. reductionism, again

2010-04-01 Thread ERIC P. CHARLES
Pardon me, but I couldn't help overhearing (i.e., randomly butting in): Evolution is never visible 'in the moment', evolution is one type of change over time. This whole thing where you think you can see a new organism born and say see, look at that, THAT is evolution is crazy talk... no matter

Re: [FRIAM] holism vs. reductionism, again

2010-04-01 Thread sarbajit roy
Hi Glen The reason my points were phrased that way was due to the subject of this thread. The vs. paints holism / reductionism as a black vs white fight, whereas there is a whole spectrum (and not only of grays) in between (and beyond) not necessarily in coonflict (Ebony and Ivory ..). Just FYI,

Re: [FRIAM] holism vs. reductionism, again

2010-04-01 Thread glen e. p. ropella
sarbajit roy wrote circa 10-04-01 12:21 PM: The reason my points were phrased that way was due to the subject of this thread. The vs. paints holism / reductionism as a black vs white fight, whereas there is a whole spectrum (and not only of grays) in between (and beyond) not necessarily in

[FRIAM] Deep Web Technologies Enhances DOE Science Accelerator With Alerts

2010-04-01 Thread Tom Johnson
NB: Check the dateline, folks.. http://www.ereleases.com/pr/deep-web-technologies-enhances-doe-science-accelerator-alerts-33648 Deep Web Technologies Enhances DOE Science Accelerator With Alerts SANTA FE, N.M., March 30, 2010 — Serious science researchers can now receive information about

Re: [FRIAM] New Blood!

2010-04-01 Thread Russ Abbott
His website http://www.earth360.com/lauritzen_bill.html features him in pictures with various people. On has this. Mamikon and Lauritzen in front of the Project Mathematics office near Cal Tech. Mamokin developed a method of doing many standard calculus problems without the use of formulas or

Re: [FRIAM] New Blood!

2010-04-01 Thread Douglas Roberts
1984 -- That was just about when I was transitioning from my CP/M-based computing environments to Symbolics 3600s. Is it any wonder I'm a bit schizophrenic? --Doug On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 10:56 PM, Owen Densmore o...@backspaces.net wrote: Alan and I worked briefly together at Apple. We were