Nick, is it just coincidence that when I get to town you leave?
On May 23, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
All,
Well, I 'm off the M.I.B., for the summer. Which means, only, that
I wont be able to attend the Friday Prayer Meetings of the Mother
Church for for the next three months. [sigh] Take good notes,
everybody, and keep that copy of Endless Forms Most Beautiful
circulating.
I WILL be able and ready and willing to talk about important
stuff. I particularly want to go back to Schroedinger, which I
sort of punted the first time around. Read in the context of
Caroll's Endless Forms, Shroedinger seems so prescient.
Shroedinger wonders how life, composed as it is of the itsy bitsy,
is able to maintain itself in the face of heat motion. Caroll
points out that, not only has life carried on in the fact of heat
motion, but that the precisely the same amino acid sequences have
been around in living things for up to a billion years. In a way,
the genome is about the most stable thing we got going. How could
this be? Answer: "Life is an aperiodic crystal. " I want
everybody's imput on all of this.
The first step, of course, is to make sure i have read Schroedinger
correctly. So when I next open up my computer amidst the dank
horrors of the M.I.B., it will be to put before you some of the
passages of Schroedinger for exigesis '
Otherwise, have a wonderful summer.
nick (};-|)
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University ([email protected])
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]
============================================================
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
Rem tene; verba sequentur.
Grasp the subject; the words will follow.
Cato the Elder
============================================================
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
