Has anyone ever seen "Pamela McCorduck" and "Nicholas Thompson" in the same place at the same time?
> 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
