Nick stated: "I deplore a skepticism that drinks only 9/10ths of the potent, and then puts the glass down, burps, and walks away with a smug look on its face."
Excepting the mystic who recognizes that "ALL is illusion," has anyone drunk the full potent? davew On Sun, Jul 28, 2019, at 9:23 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: > While we're getting rid of concepts, let's just get rid of this > foolish, unsubstantiated concept, "the world." What sort of heuristic > is THAT? > > N > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > Clark University > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Steven A Smith > Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2019 11:41 AM > To: friam@redfish.com > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] All hail confirmation bias! > > I KNEW that confirmation bias was a problem and NOW this confirms it! > > I TOLEYA! > > On 4/24/19 5:25 PM, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote: > > Our World Isn't Organized into Levels > > https://philpapers.org/rec/POTOWI?ref=mail > > > >> In my view, our adherence to the levels concept in the face of the > >> systematic problems plaguing it amounts to a failure to recognize > >> structure we’re imposing on the world, to instead mistake this as > >> structure we are reading off the world. Attachment to the concept of > >> levels of organization has, I think, contributed to underestimation > >> of the complexity and variability of our world, including the > >> significance of causal interaction across scales. This has also > >> inhibited our ability to see limitations to our heuristic and to > >> imagine other contrasting heuristics, heuristics that may bear more > >> in common with what our world turns out to actually be like. Let’s at > >> least entertain the possibility that the invocation of levels can mislead > >> scientific and philosophical investigations more than it informs them. I > >> suggest that the onus is on advocates of levels of organization to > >> demonstrate the well-foundedness and usefulness of this concept. > > ============================================================ > 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 > > > ============================================================ > 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 > ============================================================ 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
