Glen - I keyboarded a typically long and torturous contribution to this thread early on, but decided to hold it back and look for a more succinct response. Some high points, in summary:
1. Stick and Stones ... 2. Passive-Aggressive modes/roles in Kolmogorov Models 3. Outlier identification within Persistent Homologies - Steve On 7/19/19 11:40 AM, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote: > Well, sure. But you seem to be relying on some sort of ontological primacy > for the person/animal/organism. Processes like defamation or corruption (or > their opposites) are only different from processes like tissue remodeling or > healing in *scale* or degree, not type/kind. Both involve large collections > of individuals to participate in a stable or dynamically evolving soup. > Saying defamation or corruption could change the course of a life equivocates > on "whose life?" E.g. the life of a skin cell is no different (in kind) from > the life of the organism of whose skin it's a part. (Panpsychism anyone?) > > This paper was interesting: > Self-Evaluative and Other-Directed Emotional and Behavioral Responses to > Gossip About the Self > https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6328481/ > > I'd be hard-pressed to make a serious disjoint separation between > inter-cellular signaling and the type of signaling described above ... > flippant distinctions, sure, but not serious ones. > > On 7/19/19 8:29 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: >> Yes being physically injured is different from other kinds of harm. One >> can recover from some kinds of physical injury, but defamation or other >> workplace corruption could change the course of a life. >
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