Re: [FRIAM] Friday Dec 27 Venue

2019-12-23 Thread Jon Zingale
Frank, Meeting at Saveur sounds good to me. Jon 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: htt

Re: [FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 198, Issue 15

2019-12-23 Thread Eric Charles
"Suppose God gave me the ability to see like a bird. Could I describe to you what the flower looks like (re. UV?)." YES! To the same extent as you can explain anything else. Which is to say, with the same *limitations**, *no more, no less, that we find in any other situations in which we broadly

Re: [FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 198, Issue 15

2019-12-23 Thread Eric Charles
Frank, There is very cool data about brain plasticity, which i only know the surface of. "Visual cortex" tends to get taken over by other functions. If i recall, much of it will become auditory cortex if you ate blind from birth. But it will definitely vary by person. Epigenetics and what not.

[FRIAM] Friday Dec 27 Venue

2019-12-23 Thread Frank Wimberly
I talked to management at Saveur about our meeting there. It's at the intersection of Cerrillos and Galisteo downtown near the new courthouse. They would be happy to have us assuming everyone orders drink and/or food. They serve breakfast from 8:00 until 10:30. As I said before, their croissants,

[FRIAM] Predatory journals: no definition, no defence

2019-12-23 Thread Tom Johnson
Perhaps of interest. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03759-y Predatory journals: no definition, no defence Leading scholars and publishers from ten countries have agreed a definition of predatory publishing that can protect scholarship. It took 12 hours of discussion, 18 questions and

Re: [FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 198, Issue 15

2019-12-23 Thread uǝlƃ ☣
On conflating definition with cause, I tried to build a spectrum between the two using the concept of constructive explanation. But my line of reasoning doesn't seem to provide you (or anyone else on the list) with any traction. So, maybe I should abandon that. To take a different tack, I can a