Yeah, I know. I'm that good. ;-o
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:58 PM, Steve Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Douglas Roberts wrote: > > Good question! > > Let's see what my random philosophy generator has to say about this: > > *It is plain that we have not simply lost an infinite horizon of > approximations for phenomenology; we retain it, however, by a freely > actualizable return to experiences. * > > Holy shiite Doug! You are our *Reluctant Oracle *after all! > > I think you've hit upon the fundamental answer to all of our questions, > philosphical (synchronicity vs emergence and epistimology vs cosmology), > technological (what is the bestest language for OO or ABM development), > psychological (variations on homunculus talk), mathematical (is solving > Goldbach's conjecture fundamentally more important than Fermat's last > theorem?), and practical (is it too late for coffee yet too early for beer? > And in what Time Zone?) > > All of these FRIAM discussions do seem to be about *infinite horizons* and > somebody always demands that we *return to experiences*. > > Amazing... Synchronicity *and* Morphic Resonance all rolled into one! > > ;-} Steve > > > Ah, yes: fine stuff. > > ;-} > > --Doug > > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:28 PM, glen e. p. ropella < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Thus spake Douglas Roberts circa 09-09-22 12:27 PM: >> > Nah. Let's go with philosophy. Again. >> >> Hm. Which is worse? Yahoos who have a tendency to wax philosophical or >> yahoos who continually, insistently, repeat the same vapid objection to >> philosophy over and over and over despite the lack of effect? >> >> What's the definition of "insanity" again? [grin] >> >> -- >> glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-modeling.com >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> > > > > -- > Doug Roberts > [email protected] > [email protected] > 505-455-7333 - Office > 505-670-8195 - Cell > > ------------------------------ > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Doug Roberts [email protected] [email protected] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell
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