Re: [FRIAM] Epistemological Maunderings

2011-12-16 Thread Steve Smith
Complexity Coffee Group *Subject:* [FRIAM] Epistemological Maunderings On Primeness... I am mathematician by training (barely) but I don't think anyone should listen to me about mathematics unless serendipitously I happen to land on a useful or interesting

Re: [FRIAM] Epistemological Maunderings

2011-12-16 Thread Douglas Roberts
*Sent:* Sunday, December 11, 2011 11:44 AM *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group *Subject:* [FRIAM] Epistemological Maunderings On Primeness... I am mathematician by training (barely) but I don't think anyone should listen to me about mathematics unless serendipitously I

[FRIAM] Epistemological Maunderings

2011-12-11 Thread Steve Smith
On Primeness... I am mathematician by training (barely) but I don't think anyone should listen to me about mathematics unless serendipitously I happen to land on a useful or interesting (by whose measure?) mathematical conjecture (and presumably some attendant proofs as well). That said,

Re: [FRIAM] Epistemological Maunderings

2011-12-11 Thread Nicholas Thompson
I think this is metaphysics, no? From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Steve Smith Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 11:44 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM] Epistemological Maunderings On Primeness... I am

Re: [FRIAM] Epistemological Maunderings

2011-12-11 Thread Steve Smith
...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Steve Smith *Sent:* Sunday, December 11, 2011 11:44 AM *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group *Subject:* [FRIAM] Epistemological Maunderings On Primeness... I am mathematician by training (barely) but I don't think

Re: [FRIAM] Epistemological Maunderings

2011-12-11 Thread Douglas Roberts
, no? ** ** *From:* friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.comfriam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Steve Smith *Sent:* Sunday, December 11, 2011 11:44 AM *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group *Subject:* [FRIAM] Epistemological Maunderings ** ** On Primeness

Re: [FRIAM] Epistemological Maunderings

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Holmes
...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Steve Smith *Sent:* Sunday, December 11, 2011 11:44 AM *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group *Subject:* [FRIAM] Epistemological Maunderings ** ** On Primeness... I am mathematician by training (barely) but I don't think anyone should

Re: [FRIAM] Epistemological Maunderings

2011-12-11 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Of Steve Smith Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 7:50 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Epistemological Maunderings Metaphysics being the nature of being and existence, Epistemology being the nature of knowledge. Whether emergence is Epistemological

Re: [FRIAM] Epistemological Maunderings

2011-12-11 Thread Douglas Roberts
] Epistemological Maunderings ** ** Metaphysics being the nature of being and existence, Epistemology being the nature of knowledge. Whether emergence is Epistemological or if it is Phenomenological or Metaphysical is an interesting question and not an unsubtle one... I think

Re: [FRIAM] Epistemological Maunderings

2011-12-11 Thread Nicholas Thompson
] On Behalf Of Douglas Roberts Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 10:05 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Epistemological Maunderings Robert, I detect an insinuation of dissatisfaction from somewhere. There is a disturbance in the force. But, enough