I think of the "experience being with other people" as sort of like how my
herding dog follows me from room to room. There's a knob in her head that is
set to keep a visual distance with her people. It's what she expects and it
comes from her breed. It's not the result of a dynamical system that occurs
has occurred on the timescale of her life. It is a reductionist/thin/flat
explanation for the dog and the basketball player and the choir singer.
On 1/16/19, 3:56 PM, "uǝlƃ ☣" <geprope...@gmail.com> wrote:
That's fine. But it doesn't directly address the point. Is
experience-being-with-other-people really an "attractor" in the sense we
usually use that term? I don't think so. I think the normal (complexity
fanboi) sense of "attractor" is at least somewhat reductionist/thin/flat and
not commensurate with phrases like "experience being with other people".
If we simply decided these things are not attractors, then I think my
problem dissolves.
On 1/16/19 2:45 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> Some people participate in intramural sports or sing in a choir. Such
participation isn't about being the best at the sport, or aspiring to be the
most talented musician. As far as I can tell, they just like performing with
other people. It is about experience and participation. It is an excuse to
get together. It is about being around people they recognize as similar to
them. (I feel like Commander Data observing the behavior of humans here..)
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☣ uǝlƃ
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