you know, I might have the two of you mixed up. How did we get from the Greek ethos, “the moral environment we live in,” to etheology is the study of animal behavior? I like to think they are more ethical than we are.
doug > On Jun 27, 2020, at 1:27 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > OH Gosh. I loved it. I know. What’s to love? > > Raised two children who went barefoot in Arch Street all winter long, had > parties in our big old Victorian house, played WAY TOO MUCH bridge in the > coffee room (and never got good at it), lolled around the pool with my family > at Strawberry Canyon, went dancing (yes, me, dancing?!) at the Monkey Inn, > even went to the Trips Festival. Marched on College Avenue. Happiest years > of my life! Almost died in my oral exam. Literally. If I had had a heart > condition then, that would have been the end of me. Never missed a hurdle; > never failed to set them quivering as I went over. > > Her name was Susan Tripp? You MUST have known David Nichols. He was an Old > Guy Graduate Student, mustered out of the CIA at 40. Had a sideline spying > on us for some spooks in Menlo Park. (He only admitted that to me 20 years > later.) I have only met two spies in my life Liked them both. He went on > to chair a department at Colorado Springs, I think. > > Nick > > Nicholas Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > Clark University > [email protected] > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Doug > Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2020 2:13 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] intro > > And here we are still doing complexity coffee! > > My committee was Jonas langer, sarbin, crutchfield, slobin and the linguist > from linguistics, i forget her name, tall woman. > > I hated the architecture and feel for tolman hall. The worst of sq ft per > dollar approach to design. > > Sent from my iPhone [email protected] > > > > > On Jun 27, 2020, at 10:26 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > > Dear Doug, > > Our overlap at Berkeley is exact! > > I was a behaviorist (French, Beach, Sarbin, Riley, Eichorn, Slobin, etc.) I > took also courses in Anthro (Washburn). > > I mentioned the coffee urns because it was a testimony to how > highly-motivated, highly motivated, inattentive humans are incapable of > learning simple discriminations a rat would learn in a microsecond. There > were two gigantic coffee urns; one had coffee made, and we could take from > it; the other was making coffee, and was forbidden. One had a red light, the > other, none. To this day, I do not know whether the red light stood for > “forbidden” or “ready!”. It wasn’t just me. People were forever decanting > palid coffee into their Styrofoam cups and cursing the result. Some days the > “forbidden” urn was a third empty by the time it was ready for use. > > We watched through the huge windows as the BioChem Building rose to our west > and obscured our view of the Golden Gate. > > You probably knew Dave Nichols. > > If curious, bio-info contained in My Descent from the Monkey, A Utopian > Approach to Ecology and Development, and An Interview With an Old New > Realist. > > I will look at your stuff over the weekend. > > Welcome aboard! > > Nick > > Nicholas Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > Clark University > [email protected] > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of doug carmichael > Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2020 9:49 AM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> > Subject: [FRIAM] intro > > Good to have joined you for the last part of Zoom yesterday. It was > suggested that I post more of an introduction . I have been a long time > lurker, maybe five years. > > So few more things about me. > > After my post doc at Harvard I went toMexico an spent three years with Erich > Fromm at his Mexican Psychoanalytic Institute that sadly no longer exists. > > I also worked with the White House and John Koskinen on y2k, which was an > exposure to more institutions than could have been had any other way. > > bio at https://carmichaelconversation.com/bio/ > > blog at https://carmichaelconversation.com > > draft book Gardenworld Politics at > > https://medium.com/gardenworld-politics/gardenworld-politics-chapters-and-blog-b8b428d84553 > > Gardenworld Politics says that we need a vision of the society to rebuild > post virus and in the midst of climate issues. The book emerged out of that > quest. > > Thoughts more than welcome. > > virtual hugs > > doug. > > > > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
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