Dear Frank,
We octogenarian former academics have to do what we can. Lacking laboratories, libraries, secretaries graduate students, seminars, colloquia and all the other joys of academic life, the one thing we CAN do is buy a few books and study them carefully. So that’s what I do. FRIAM has helped me stay alive as a mind by humoring me as I come to terms with Peirce. Thanks to you all. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Frank Wimberly Sent: Monday, April 15, 2019 6:24 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Everything she knows... I don't know you en vivo, Marcus, but do you deny that there exists something that you worship or are you saying that there are no people who worship nothing? I am tempted to write that in predicate calculus. In my experience some people worship science as the royal road to the truth. Nick's attachment to Peirce reminds me of some religious people's behavior, including quoting scripture. I have a similar relationship to psychoanalytic theory. I agree with you that La Mott meant that the conventional religions were not the only options when she mentioned the Muffin and St. Bob (Dylan). (I used to work in the Research Center in Child Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh. The Department of Psychiatry at that time was dominated by psychoanalysts.) Frank ----------------------------------- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918
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