Re: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder

2021-03-27 Thread thompnickson2
ay, March 27, 2021 1:31 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder Often it seems like you are more interested in compendiums or holding (virtual) lecture series than you are in just jumping in to the literature. These experts are developing

Re: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder

2021-03-27 Thread Marcus Daniels
riday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder Not to worry, Gary. Just a little collaborators’ tiff. Eric has done more to support my staying alive in old age than any other individual human being. He can call me anything he wants. The other big

Re: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder

2021-03-27 Thread thompnickson2
rday, March 27, 2021 7:43 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group mailto:friam@redfish.com> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder In Friday's meeting I apologized to Jon that I hadn't given him a proper reply to his interesting prods, but that Nick's comm

Re: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder

2021-03-27 Thread Gary Schiltz
gt; N > > > > Nick Thompson > > thompnicks...@gmail.com > > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > *From:* Friam *On Behalf Of *Eric Charles > *Sent:* Saturday, March 27, 2021 7:43 AM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <

Re: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder

2021-03-27 Thread thompnickson2
ay, March 27, 2021 7:43 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder In Friday's meeting I apologized to Jon that I hadn't given him a proper reply to his interesting prods, but that Nick's comments had somehow mentally blocked

Re: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder

2021-03-27 Thread Eric Charles
ience is direct and calling it "direct" is > wasted breath. There, EricC, I have finally said it! > > Still pondering your last contribution to the writing thread. > > N > Nick Thompson > thompnicks...@gmail.com > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > >

Re: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder

2021-03-25 Thread Prof David West
eption is direct, it comes only to the prepared mind and > there are an infinity of fluxes that must go unnoticed. > > Nick > > Nick Thompson > thompnicks...@gmail.com > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > -Original Message- > From: Friam On Behalf O

Re: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder

2021-03-24 Thread jon zingale
FWIW, I interpret such flux as fascial. My skin is not made of an infinity of points, it is a sheet that confers aggregate information. The prepared mind, the situated body, whatever. There is some limited subject, limited in its ability to know what there is to know, but embodied in the world none

Re: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder

2021-03-24 Thread thompnickson2
...@gmail.com https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of jon zingale Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 9:41 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder The idea isn't all that clear to me. I am still trying to understand the va

Re: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder

2021-03-24 Thread jon zingale
The idea isn't all that clear to me. I am still trying to understand the various concepts and perspectives in play. What follows is a first-order attempt. I can sympathize with the need for Gibsonians to disambiguate experience. There is a need to state direct experience because the discussion is h

Re: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder

2021-03-24 Thread thompnickson2
n Behalf Of jon zingale Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 4:02 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder """ I feel like I completely understand your problem, but cannot solve it. You point to, what is for me, the most bemusing problem in evolutionary theory, the

Re: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder

2021-03-24 Thread jon zingale
""" I feel like I completely understand your problem, but cannot solve it. You point to, what is for me, the most bemusing problem in evolutionary theory, the evolution of natural selection. Given the developmental entanglement of traits, how do they become modules for the purpose of selection.

[FRIAM] Friday Fodder

2021-03-24 Thread thompnickson2
t: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 9:12 AM To: friam@redfish.com <mailto:friam@redfish.com> Subject: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder Because I left before it ended, I have no idea how the spandrel discussion ended. Nick requested an explanation/elaboration/justification for my continued skepticism/resistance (

Re: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder

2021-03-24 Thread Prof David West
I read, long ago and who knows where, that the issue came from the director, and probably more directly from the continuation editor — there were visual 'responses' from females in this scene and in the bar scene from the first one where they looked at his crotch and were "impressed" and "lustfu

Re: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder

2021-03-24 Thread Marcus Daniels
Put a space laser into orbit, like, you know... -Original Message- From: Friam On Behalf Of u?l? ??? Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2021 10:29 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder LoL! Can you imagine how insecure you'd have to be to insist the producers CGI l

Re: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder

2021-03-24 Thread uǝlƃ ↙↙↙
LoL! Can you imagine how insecure you'd have to be to insist the producers CGI larger genitalia for you? As Womanizer-in-Chief, I'd buy that he did. But hell, maybe the Governator would have been fine with anatomical correctness but the director insisted that modern masculinity demands porn star

Re: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder

2021-03-24 Thread Prof David West
I know the scene whereof you speak. CGI. On Tue, Mar 23, 2021, at 11:08 AM, Eric Charles wrote: > Bit of a tangent, but... > >> Consider Arnold in the role of Terminator. He managed to convey a lot of >> menace and dominance simply from size and overall shape; never once >> brandishing his pe

Re: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder

2021-03-23 Thread Eric Charles
Bit of a tangent, but... > Consider Arnold in the role of Terminator. He managed to convey a lot of > menace and dominance simply from size and overall shape; never once > brandishing his penis to intimidate anyone. Having recently watched the theatrical release of Terminator, I was surprised t

Re: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder

2021-03-23 Thread thompnickson2
Thompson thompnicks...@gmail.com <mailto:thompnicks...@gmail.com> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ From: Friam On Behalf Of Prof David West Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 9:12 AM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: [FRIAM] Friday Fodder Because I left before it ended, I have no idea h

[FRIAM] Friday Fodder

2021-03-23 Thread Prof David West
Because I left before it ended, I have no idea how the spandrel discussion ended. Nick requested an explanation/elaboration/justification for my continued skepticism/resistance (other than being willfully obstinate for no reason) to the notion of spandrel. Hence the following — elaborated beyond