is becoming more and more evident every
day and that NeoDarwinism has been slow to adjust. If Carl would only get
busy on his artificial epigenisis idea.
Nick
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"of" the things in the world around that brain.
No?
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ones.
My philosopher friends also tell me that the two volume Encyclopedia of
Philosophy is the best philosophy crib notes ever, respectable for
citation, even.
Nick
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intensional. I mean that was sort of
Einstein's point, wasnt it? I hate it when words I love and concepts I
live by suddenly crumble in my hands.
Rushing,
Nick
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All,
Please take good notes it would be the kind of thing that I would love to
work on as perhaps a book or pamplet once I can get myself retired and out
there.
Nick
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rmerInTheSky called NATURE who is doing the "selecting". But if this game theory literature is as it appears in Gintis's book, is it not surplus meaning gone wild
Feel free to jerk on my chain here: I justdont get it.
Nick
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Simulation and policy-making (Douglas Roberts)
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3. gintis's Game Theory Evolving (Nicholas Thompson)
4. Re
Theory Evolving
Oops, *blush* .. sorry!
I've read the start of Game Theory Evolving, and plan to complete the
Whole Damn Thing. None of the others though.
-- Owen
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On Aug 10, 2006, at 8:34 AM, Nicholas
Phil,
I hate it when one of my topics gets dropped, and therefore feel guilty for being one of the DROPPERS, here.
Sometimes the discussions get so far reaching and technical that I am forced to "pass over them in silence" as Wittegenstein said.
the only piece of your message that I have
Robert,
This URL came up empty for me.
www.cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/*Verzani*-*SimpleR*.pdf
Any thoughts
nick
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Does anybody have anything wise to say about Citizenia or whatever it is called. The last I heard was that the two organizations had come to an understanding by which the cathedral could be built of blocks out of elements of the bazaar. (all the time I was out in Santa Fe I kept hearing Owen
Anybody?
A lot of talk this morning about voting machine security. Somebody made the point that nobody has ever hacked into a voting system in a manner that others might detect. (No, this is NOT a tautology) I wasnt sure I understood, but it seemed that there was something analogus to a
and Easter Island (Nicholas Thompson)
2. Re: cf COLLAPSE and Easter Island (Mikhail Gorelkin)
3. Re: Democracy and evolution (Mikhail Gorelkin)
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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 12:36:43 -0500
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The procedure is correct
But a heluva mess,
The Birdies Just Do it,
And They could care less
Adapted from Lissaman, 2007.
By the way, I struggled for many minutes with
Interestingly, for a linear Vee, the wing at the apex of the Vee has the
maximum saving. In 1971 I was in communication
Phil,
I have kept out of the most recent War of the PolyMaths because i just
don't have the firepower these days to keep up.
But your last communication poked my fire a bit.
Have you seen either THE PLAUSIBILITY OF LIFE or CATCHING OURSELVES IN THE
ACT.
The f irst is a must read, because
: Contents of Friam digest...
Today's Topics:
1. Re: Friam Digest, Vol 43, Issue 24 (Nicholas Thompson)
2. The FRIAM (Marko A. Rodriguez)
3. Re: 1. fun and sandpiles (Phil Henshaw)
4. Re: The FRIAM (Phil Henshaw)
5. Re: The FRIAM (J T Johnson
Hi, All.
Is there a software that would allow me to listen to a piece of news media and
using the key pad, allocate the content to categories as it streams by.
So, for instance, when I was done, I could say that, say, some proportion of
time is dedicated to junk, some to real news, or some
Phil,
I am so hot on Plausibility of Life that I bought 4 cc to circulate here
amongst the SAF folks. So I wont hear a WORD against it. NOT A SINGLE
WORD.
I would mount a stalwart defense of it, except that my copy is buried at
the bottom of one of three HUGE book boxes I sent from the east
Phil,
In general I agree with you. I just make an exception for PLAUSIBILITY OF
LIFE. Oh. And. Whatever happened before the Big Bang.
(you know those cans of springy things you used to be able to get at joke
shops. So it says walnuts or something, but when you open it the top flies
off
then a molecular biological model of human behavioral, social, and cultural
development will be the next big thing. This is a revision of a version sent
earlier to some of you. Apologies for the redundancy.
Abstract
Development is a sequence of changes in the form and behavior of an
drinks to mouth this whopper!
3. Evolutionary theory: The constraints and possibilities of human nature
Nicholas Thompson and the Coalition of the Willing.
The UN has defined cultures of peace as social structures and communication
systems that foster cooperation and dispel conflict. Until
All or Any,
I am trying to create a set of pivot charts from the same data using the same
color scheme i.e., so that each data series has the same color in each of
sixteen charts.
The default color scheme provided by Excel is drab and awful and I want to use
my own.
the trouble is that
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All, particularly those in the Home Church.
On Wednesday, we got into it about emergence and so I
'help' to
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I am curious to know if anybody in Friam-land will recognize the following
passage. No Fair using google.
It is NOT from the Gettysburg Address.
Our work is guided by the sense that we may be the last generation in the
experiment with living. But we are a minority--the vast majority of our
Ok, let me ask the question less coyly. Most of the impact of complexity
has been to tunnel under and loosen the foundations of ordinary science.
Is that correct, or is it not? One of the important messages of
complexity is that no matter what we know about a process, we cannot ever
know what
Carl,
I am trying to get my Psych 101 in order: Was the kitty genovese incident
the one that led to that horrendous series of experiments that demonstrate
that if you give people a shock console (or what they THINK is a shock
console) and ask them politely to do so, they will cheerfully use
H!
Something bothers me about the notion of an information explosion.
Let's say that information is a statement about the number of different
things in the world that could possibly be pointed out. Then information
is a constant, or infinite, or both, eh?
Lets say that information is
the earth we stand on is spinning
at
1000 miles per hour? In The Little Prince, the accountant sat there
counting all
the stars to know how many there are. Most of us aren't that obsessive.
Let information overload come. It's only an overload if you try to
pick it all up.
Nicholas Thompson wrote
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No, I didn't even see The Passion, though Apocalypto sounded cool.
Back in Alabama, our pickups only had room for a shotgun, a dawg a case of
beer -
no room for information - never even missed it, come to think of it.
Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Bill,
I notice
Well All I can say is that J.J. Gibson definely had a place in the cab for
girls in his pickup.
Nick
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Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at
... which was too long, too pompous, and too sloppy. I labored at it for
hours, and then, in the end, totally lost patience and sent it unproof-read.
If anybody is interested in what a REALIST MATERIALIST ANTI REDUCTIONIST thinks
about anything -- dubious proposition--, email me and I will
Better late than NEVER, Roger. thanks for your input.
I am of course, as a soft scientist, fascinated by the soft underbelly of
hard science.
It would be great to have you back at Friam again. Hywl did a magnificent
job as our stand in physical chemist, but I am sure he would be grateful
question, yes I am; in addition I'm a fully paid-up
subscriber to the identity theory of mind.
R
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which was too long, too pompous, and too sloppy. I labored at it for
hours, and then, in the end, totally lost patience and sent
Gunther very wisely wrote:
I used to throw around the word emergence around until I noticed
that I used it there where I did not understand what was really going
on, like in: consciousness? - simple - an emergent process
Since then I have stopped using the word - it is, in fact, vacuous to
call
as stop gap
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any phenomena that we all agreed were cases of emergence
AND SHOULD BE AGAIN!
What happened to that lovely little thread about whether relatedness
explained ant and bee social behavior and whether human evolution suggested
that human beings only were altruistic toward strangers when they were
confused.
GET YOUR OWN DARN THREAD, GUYS!
(;-\}
Nick
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On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 06:12:58PM -0600, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
So, here is my present
OK. I will bite. A sumulation is a model, i.e., a process or object that
stands in for another less well understood process or object in an attempt
to understand the latter. You know that drawing that has the king fisher
calculating the angle of refraction of the water to figure out how to dive
a simulation, or model. It is the job of a
scientist to find good models.
Hoped thisd helps, John
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the banal truth that algebra
can be used as a generic tool in many different
simulations, say so. If you do mean something
else, say WHAT.
On 26 Jul 2007 at 15:59, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
OK. I will bite. A sumulation is a model, i.e., a process or object
that
stands in for another less
All,
Ok. I got it wrong.
Berlinsk's account of the proof first establishes a function for the distance
between the chord and function itself, h.
Then it says,
Two facts about h must now be invoked. First, h is continuous on (a, b) and
second, h is differentiable on (a, b).
I
Dear All,
AllI am trying to keep track, over a VERY slow modem, of all the arguments and
counter arguments that have come my way as a result of my attempts to find out
from you all what is essentially mathematical, what is essentially
computational, and what is essentially just plain good old
adaptive system
is one that eventually cycles. Some of my recent research has been to break a
system down into ones that eventually cycle (but not all systems so break down
and I have a long way to go).
---John
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Hang on David! What people SAY they think will turn them on, no?
Every interview is a dynamic interaction between two human beings, right?
It's always quite possible that what people say to anthropologists has
nothing to do with what they say, think, or do at any other time, right??
Do you
All,
I feel like WE (by which I mean you-all) have something to contribute to the
current discussion on warrantless wire taps.Note the Washington Post,
below. Does anybody else agree that Data Mining needs an entirely different
structure of civil rights protections then investigations
, at 2:09 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
All,
I feel like WE (by which I mean you-all) have something to
contribute to the current discussion on warrantless wire taps. Note
the Washington Post, below. Does anybody else agree that Data Mining
needs an entirely different structure
Glen,
WHOA!
Or is that WO!
Or perhaps WOE!
I COMMENT BELOW IN CAPS TO DISTINGUISH MY COMMENTS FROM THE ORIGINAL TEXT.
I PROMISE i AM NOT SHOUTING. REALLY! THIS IS SHOUTING.
Glen--I disagree. In fact, I think Nick's equation of expressing one's
political/ideological views with flatulence
http://nsidc.org/news/press/2007_seaiceminimum/20070810_index.html
from the first page:
Arctic Sea Ice News Fall 2007
During the crucial summer melting season, scientists monitor the condition of
Arctic sea ice for comparison to previous years. For more on the importance of
sea ice and how
QUOTING OWEN:
Its interesting that there are large gas/oil reserves under the ice
caps. Yet how did that happen if these result from organic decay?
Dyson also has an answer for that: there may be earth-core activities
that contribute a great deal to oil.
I think I can answer this one.
Dear all,
What a great discussion! This is the sort of discussion for which I
treasure this list.
Still, I just would like to add a testy snarl at any establishment figure
who calls himself a heretic. Dennett did this in Darwin's Dangerous Idea,
trying desparately to wrap himself in the
will that it
should become a universal law. [1]
db
On Aug 13, 2007, at 3:53 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
All,
The best argument for worrying about global warming presented so far in
this interesting correspondence is the one that says it costs us relatively
little to worry about it and and costs us LOT
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Hmm Roger. I always thought that unpredictable environments contribute
more within-species diversitity and FEWER species.
Nick
Nick --
Apparently a generalization that fits some of the facts
I would suspect either highly rumpled surfaces, or islands, or both.
N
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Examples of countries with high biodiversity or biodiversity
is proposed to contribute to the
unusual diversity of mammals found.
Maybe diversity is the wrong word. It isn't the one the authors chose in
their abstract. The issue is the extreme spread of life cycle adaptation
among the mammals found.
-- rec --
On 8/15/07, Nicholas Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
All,,
If you have ANY inclinations to being a weathernerd, these sites that Tom
Johnson recommends are bound to be addictive. Approach with caution.
Here is their interface on the current status of Gabrielle. Bouys,
satellites, storm tracks, actual and predicted, all superimposed on a
Alfredo,
Good question. In fact, the question of the day, for the Hayes talk.
Mysterious non linear effects in Hayes data leading to the conclusion good
hearted efforts in one direction lead to the opposite result.
I guess mysterious non-linearity is a good clue that the phenomenon is
Have a look at this.
http://www.atmo.arizona.edu/products/wximagery/uswv.html
Two questions: Does anybody have a way to make this loop my screen saver. Self
refreshing. I could stare at it all day and all night.
One Question: It seems to me this displays BEGS for the discover of some
All or any,
Is there any software ... analgous, say, to the reviewing taskbar in Word ...
that allows one to critique a web page?
Nick
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Professor of Psychology and Ethology, Clark University ([EMAIL
David,
This will bother me for the rest of the week! Best answer I can come up
with is Liberal Arts.It is embodied in our colleges and universities
as wholes, but no longer in any of its individuals. Here is where St.
Johns is the exception, where the quality you aspire to name, is
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Friends,
Darn it! I cant get anybody to tangle with the fundamental thing I am
saying here. Anytime we embody something that is true of the aggregate of
observables in a single unobservable case, we are committing a fallacy.
The locus classicus of this fallacy is mental causation, where we
?Perhaps they're different, and a good bit of the
con-fusion occurs as a result of not being clear about which we're referring
to.
Phil
On 11/12/07, Nicholas Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The truth arises from arguments amongst friends -- David Hume
One of my goals at Friam, believe
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snip
So, in my idiotic
Of Nicholas Thompson
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Phil,
I dont think I denied anything off the sort. You sure can point at a hammer;
you sure can point at a nail. You an even point at the hammer in contact
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] FRIAM and causality
On Nov 18, 2007 11:58 AM, Nicholas Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Robert,
Does a blank white wall have a pattern on it?
Nick
Nick - YES - Robert
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Does Le Monde think that ordinary mortals should use SKype.
I gather one should not return phone calls in skype for the same reason one
should not click on links in spam messages.
http://www.informaticasecurity.com/press/2007/VOIP_Security.html
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Research
All,
I confess I have not followed the mathematical side of this discussion into
the blue underlined stuff. Nor do I claim to understand all of the plain
text.
However, I am tempted by the idea of a mathematical formalization of
natural design. Here is the argument: What EVERYBODY --from
: [FRIAM] Natural Design as a primitive property (was FRIAM
andCausality)
Quick thought. Isn't 'designedness' directly proportional to a local reduction
in entropy (= a measure of disorder, etc.) ? There's lots of math on entropy.
Robert C
Nicholas Thompson wrote:
All,
I confess I have
Dammit, you guys, you took MY thread, dragged it off into the bushes,
worried it like a fetid gazelle, and then left it there to ROT!
My point -- still not dealt with, i don't think -- is that when we speak
of x causing y, we usually speak of what Frank Wimberley called, in his
early response
Dear Eric,
Thanks for your thoughtful response. I will interline some comments in
CAPS. I promise I am not SHOUTING.
Nick
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All,
On the recommendation of somebody on this list, I started reading Rosen's Life
Itself. It does indeed, as the recommender suggested, seem to relate to my
peculiar way of looking at such things as adaptation, motivation, etc. The
book is both intriguing and somewhat over my head. Pied
central theorem. I suspect
their rather more rigourous approach crystalises some of my grumbles,
but I haven't found the time yet to try out the analysis more formally
myself.
Cheers
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 08:41:43PM -0700, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
All,
On the recommendation of somebody
Glen,
thanks for your fascinating answer.
It answers all my questions for the moment. Here is the present state of my
thinking of the Praeludium, which I have now read four times and with which my
concern is approaching obsession.
For what it is worth, I agree with Rosen (Praeludium, Life
Merde, Roger.
This was partly my mistake. My son, the teachaholic, wasnt going up there,
so I figured there was no THERE to go up to. The switchboard didnt
answer! Was there anything but an empty hall? Whom did they expect to
feed?We will check more carefully before next week. Did St
Is this true?
Cell phone numbers going public tomorrow
REMINDERall cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing
companies tomorrow and you will start to receive sale calls.
YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS
To prevent this, call the following number from your cell
, Nicholas Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All --
Has anybody thought about how to make use of truly lousy data? There are
increasingly sources of public data on subject matters such as weather and
(see below) flowers and birds where the quality of the data is truly awful
by ordinary standards
to the priors anyway.
Also I'd expect that you can probably get reasonable values for
those conditional probabilities, in consultation with your local flower
expert.
Robert
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All --
Has anybody thought about how to make use of truly lousy data
According to the IRS EVERY approved 501c3 application is a public document.
Anybody know where I can find these on the interenet?
Sorry for a boring topic,
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Research Associate, Redfish Group, Santa Fe, NM ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
wish to start with an organization that you
know (or have some interest in) and search on the Form 990 criterion.
All the best,
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Gunther,
Thank you I will. I have down loaded it and have it at the ready. Right
now I am entertaining myself by reading the IRS Manual on tax free
educational organizations. Who is it that said that the law is an ass?
More like an ugly baroque cathedral? Or a coral reef? encrustation upon
I like your description of a LEARNING ORGANIZATION.
What a splendid way to be! As army ants are to the forest, so are you to
knowledge.
Nick
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Date: 2/21/2008 10:02:47 AM
Subject: Friam Digest, Vol 56, Issue 21
Send
All,
Colleagues at my former institutution have asked me to provide a reading or
other .. representation that can be consumed in less than an hour that
would give a sense of what it is we do in Friam, in Santa Fe, etc. Hopefully
not words ABOUT it but an example OF it, if you see
the Internet up a notch
(David Breecker)
2. Tiobe Programming Language Index (Owen Densmore)
3. Re: Tiobe Programming Language Index (Russell Standish)
4. Re: Tiobe Programming Language Index (Marcus G. Daniels)
5. The quintessence of complexity thinking (Nicholas Thompson)
6
I havent been able to follow the conversation but the following caught my
eye
Machines are the produce of a self-consistent model
in the mind of the inventor, cities and technologies are complex learning
processes that grow out of their own environments like all other natural
systems..etc.
. Re: recap on Rosen (glen e. p. ropella)
3. Marketing research as futurology (Nicholas Thompson)
4. Re: recap on Rosen (glen e. p. ropella)
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6. Re: recap on Rosen (Marcus G. Daniels)
7. Re: recap on Rosen (glen e. p. ropella)
8. Re
Folks,
I am getting confused again: Can somebody confirm or deny the following:?
(1) We have two worries here, high voltage transients and cell phone use.
(2) They have nothing to do with each other, right?
(3) In the study on high voltage transients, the excess cancers were
melanomas,
(Nicholas Thompson)
2. Re: High Voltage, cell phones and other scary things
(Marcus G. Daniels)
3. El mejor programa de divulgaci?n cient?fica en TV hispana
(Alfredo Covaleda)
4. Re: El mejor programa de divulgaci?n cient?fica en TV hispana
(Frank Wimberly
all,
I love phenomena that are reflexive, as reading the following was for me, and
no doubt will be for you.
http://www.structuredprocrastination.com/
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University ([EMAIL
Dear Friam Colleagues,
I am writing to ask you to support the Santa Fe Complex. The Complex is Santa
Fes new center for education and innovation in the applied complexity
sciences. For Friam members within commuting distance to Santa Fe, it can be a
workplace where you come to share your
. (Nicholas Thompson)
5. Re: The Santa Fe Complex needs your help. (Marcus G. Daniels)
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Steve!
Unless something is wrong at my end, your message was scrubbed so clean
there was nothing in it!
Quite the scrubber.
n
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Local Friammers,
It is looking like St. Johns is closed, this friday. So, we thought we would
have FRIAM at the Complex, for a change. Give those of you who have not seen
the sfComplex yet a chance to look it over. I will make a huge pot of coffee.
All those people whom I have discouraged
All,
Through one of those wonderful moments of Santa Fe Serendipty I struck up a
conversation with somebody at the ECCO coffee house and scored 16 fresh
croissants at the Dessert Inn Bakery at 8.45 tomorrow at a GREAT price. (Did
you KNOW there was a Dessert Inn Bakery?). Made with
As many of you know, I have been impatient with FRIAM for years because so
much good stuff gets lost. Well, not LOST strictly, but certainly packed down
in the midden. I long for a medium in which the good stuff gets saved, and
built upon, and ultimately perhaps turned into articles or books!
All who have patience,
Once of the classic critiques of mentalism the belief that behavior is
caused by events in some inner space called the mind ... is that it involves
a category error. The term category error arises from ordinary language
philosophy (I think). You made a category
and velocity) and we can both be right.
IMHO, this means that category theory really can't tell us very much about
calculus.
Robert
On 7/8/08, Nicholas Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All who have patience,
Once of the classic critiques of mentalism the belief that behavior is
caused
position and velocity) and we can both be right.
IMHO, this means that category theory really can't tell us very much about
calculus.
Robert
On 7/8/08, Nicholas Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All who have patience,
Once of the classic critiques of mentalism the belief that behavior
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