Maybe that's why the behavior of Trump supporters is incomprehensible to Biden supporters.
----------------------------------- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly My scientific publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2 Phone (505) 670-9918 On Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 2:42 PM Jochen Fromm <j...@cas-group.net> wrote: > We have a kind of tunnelling in social systems for startups: they borrow > money which they don't have from venture capital companies and banks, and > this allows them to "tunnel" through unprofitable times. > > About the dynamics of social genes: I think how the "secret" social genes > control their organism is in fact quite difficult to describe. When the > priest reads a certain part of the social DNA the audience immediately > hears it, but if and when the rules have a concrete effect can not be > predicted. It can be the next day or the next week or never at all. > > We know that emotions control bodies of biological organisms by increasing > the readiness for actions. Nico Frijda describes it in his book "The > emotions". Social genes work similar, they increase the readiness for > actions, i.e. the likelihood that the members of the group behave in a > certain way. It is is possible that some kind of probability theory can be > used to describe it mathematically. > > -Jochen > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com> > Date: 4/16/19 20:38 (GMT+01:00) > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> > > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Everything she knows... > > With quantum annealer, one can make the distinction between logical qubits > and physical qubits. Logical qubits can be formed from physical qubits by > connecting physical qubits by strong pairwise ferromagnetic couplings. The > low energy state of a system thus (in principle) has physical qubits that > are members of the logical qubit in the same state. That’s all fine an > good for ensuring a strong energy contrast between two logical values – and > to be resistant to noise. However, the cost of that is that for that > logical qubit to participate in tunneling means that the whole set of > physical qubits need to tunnel. Think of a sci-fi story with a gateway to > another world. You are holding hands with your family, and your father > steps through the Stargate. He’s holding on to your mom’s hand but the > chain be broken temporarily (and energy can fluctuate) as he is now in a > different land. Then she must be pulled and then your siblings. These > social genes make me think of dynamics like this. The rate that progress > can occur toward the global optimal is diminished given an the insistence > of maintaining group coherence. > > > > *From: *Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> on behalf of Jochen Fromm < > j...@cas-group.net> > *Reply-To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Date: *Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at 12:13 PM > *To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject: *Re: [FRIAM] Everything she knows... > > > > I would say any human individual serves multiple genes at once. First the > normal, biological genes. The selfish genes as Dawkins called them. Then > the other, hidden genes. I have written a book about it named "The secret > genes" which I'm publishing now, this month. It is about the secret genes > in the holy books of the big religions. We know them all as commandments, > but normally we don't recognize them as what they are - cultural genes > which create social lifeforms. Religious organizations are social lifeforms > created by genes which are expressed in church services. Thus the temples > from ancient civilizations are fossil remains of ancient lifeforms. > Fascinating, isn't it? I try to explain it in more detail in the book. > > > > Since the content of the book is so explosive, I have decided to publish > it in German first, to avoid some form of apocalypse like the collapse of > civilization or Notre Dame burning down. But since nobody will read it > anyway and Notre Dame has already burnt down there is no reason why it > shouldn't be published in English. It doesn't really matter. If anyone will > cause an apocalypse it is probably president Trump (nuclear, climate, or > otherwise). > > > > Cheers, > > Jochen > > > > > > > > -------- Original message -------- > > From: glen∈ℂ <geprope...@gmail.com> > > Date: 4/16/19 16:47 (GMT+01:00) > > To: friam@redfish.com > > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Everything she knows... > > > > Well, there are at least 2 ways I disagree: > > 1) Any ecological individual serves multiple bodies at once, and > 2) Any one can serve different bodies at different moments. > > That we serve multiples presents a difference in degree so that there's a > threshold for the number of bodies one serves. Those that serve many many > purposes (religions, saints, jobs, whatever) may *seem* as if they serve > nobody. Similarly, those of us who switch our affiliations on a > minute-by-minute basis, may *seem* not to serve any one body. So, if your > gist is that those who *seem* to not serve somebody are really serving many > bodies or rapidly switching affiliations, then I agree. But if you insist > on an artificial unification, then I disagree. > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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