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On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 1:30 PM Nick Thompson mailto:nickthomp...@earthli
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For whatever it's worth, Nick, I'm now using this thread in the work we're
doing on the ad
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> On 3/28/19 1:20 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
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> Steve, ‘n all,
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> Just to be cranky, I want to remind everybody that ALL
Nick -
"Little Black Sambo"
BTW... did you know that the author of the above was the grandmother of
the Physicist who discovered the Higgs Boson (and the Higgs-Kibbel
mechanism)?
> I don't ever intend to discount that metaphor (analogical thinking)
> can be abused... and I believe that the
Marcus -
I commend you for your ability to remain distant from the subject... I
do believe there is an analogy to the Observer Effect in quantum theory
which suggests that one *never* decouples entirely from anything,
though such invocation might represent an abuse of the metaphor and
risks
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> Nicholas S. Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
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> Clark University
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> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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> *From:*Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Steven
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Tweaked in them.
From: Friam on behalf of Steven A Smith
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Subject: Re: [FRIAM] excess meaning alert? (was, Re: are we how we behave?)
I think Trump
Nick -
Thank you for your kind words.
> We were doing SO WELL until we got to … oh, see my “HORSEFEATHERS!”
> below.
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I'll see your HORSEFEATHERS and raise you a CONFLATION ALERT!
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> */[NST==>/**/HORSEFEATHERS!/**/One or two generations of
> sociobiologists were directed away from group
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On 3/28/19 1:20 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
Steve, ‘n all,
Just to be cra
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Nick says, in relevant part:
> For instance, when
> sociobiologists use the notion of selfish gene, they may legitimately
> disclaim the idea that genes consciously choose between self-regarding and
> other-regarding options, but they cannot legitimately disclaim the idea
> that a gene has the
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> Lee
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Steven A Smith
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Lee -
Steve writes in re
Nor this one either...
> Frank -
>> I am under the influence of a couple of powerful pain drugs and I can
>> barely walk. So I may not be making sense.
> I don't know what you mean by this, do you have a formula for it?
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> - Steve
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> PS –One of the things I notice that I don’t share with you guys is a
> history of reading Science Fiction. I read /Etoin Shurdlu/ when I was
> about 15, /Metamorphosis/ (Kofka) when I was about 17, and Shirley
> Jackson’s /The Lottery/ when I was in my 20’s and that’s about it.
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I don't know
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Frank/Nick -
It's something you can move
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> It's something you can move around on in a continuous way?
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Nick et al., "surplus meaning" was the term I was misremembering.
Further replies to Nick's further questions later.
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It's something you can move around on in a continuo
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Lee -
> Steve writes in relevant part:
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>> My position is that I favor each and every one of us taking whatever
>> responsibility for understanding our own "convex hull" of
>> capability/knowledge/intuition as we are capable of and "managing" it to
>> the best of our ability.
> The quotation
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Succinctly, and I may leave something out, a ma
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> > My position is that I favor each and every one of us tak
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Steve writes in relevant part:
> My position is that I favor each and every one of us taking whatever
> responsibility for understanding our own "convex hull" of
> capability/knowledge/intuition as we are c
Steve writes in relevant part:
> My position is that I favor each and every one of us taking whatever
> responsibility for understanding our own "convex hull" of
> capability/knowledge/intuition as we are capable of and "managing" it to
> the best of our ability.
The quotation marks around the
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