Thanks, Glen. Maybe, with age, the denial of being a wisp becomes less
effective.
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Steve and I discussed some of this sort of thing awhile back. I argued that the
loss of both individual and collective plasticity over time might be the core
selection criterion. In times of fat diversity in the environment, it's
helpful to have diverse and tightly coupled estimators (thanks t
; As often, I am overwhelmed by what you write. Makes me wish I were
> younger. Still, I was able to muster a couple of “lardings” below:
>
> nick
>
> Nicholas S. Thompson
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
> Clark University
> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson
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> Hi Nick,
>
Hi Steve,
I agree with what you say below, and had a similar reaction to reading Ortega.
From today’s perspective and my own scientific experience set, it would rarely
seem natural to me to think of a complex human function as a novel and
irreducible thing. We can see so many areas of cogniti
son/naturaldesigns/>
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th 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:
>
table, and jump into your mouth without any assistance from your
> hands. But I wouldn't bet on it. If I wanted some of that beer, I
> would reach for it.
>
>
> Nick
> Nicholas S. Thompson
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
> Clark University
>
Eric -
Great weigh-in as usual!
> Since in every “now” there is a need to navigate some choice of what
> to do, and since the experience of each now is constantly being
> superseded by the following now, the need to be constantly
> constructing an experiential edifice is the relentless driver of
gt; 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
e: [FRIAM] All hail confirmation bias!
>>>
>>> I think Ortega y Gasset had things to say about that in Man and Crisis.
>>>
>>> I haven’t read enough to know yet whether I think his take is important.
>>> But it would be hard to find someone who picked up the q
down, burps, and walks away with a smug look on its face.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>>
>> Nicholas S. Thompson
>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>> Clark University
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>>
>> -O
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< 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. >
One fix I’ve observed to exist in an actual medical protocol is to make the
dose adequate for a 100 kilogram man. A 50 kilogram woman will get
us Professor of Psychology and Biology
> Clark University
> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>
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> To: friam@redfish.com
> S
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I think Ortega y Gasset had things to say about that in Man and Crisis.
I
or of Psychology and Biology
> Clark University
> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>
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mpson/naturaldesigns/
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I KNEW that confirmation bias was a problem and NOW this confirms it!
I T
Hi Glen,
> On Apr 25, 2019, at 11:53 PM, glen∈ℂ wrote:
>
> Yes! I can't seem to find a copy of the article. But going on your
> description and the figures, it looks like an excellent example of treating
> hierarchy as something to measure rather than impute. (The silverchair.com
> link did
These are wonderful questions. In the past, we've even questioned whether it's
right/True to disallow causal loops.
My tendency, I think, lies in the foundational distinction between "fields" vs.
objects. I feel coerced into my broken record repetition of "artificial
discretization" (which is
Glen -
I find this discussion very provocative in the best way as well. When I
was working on the problem of helping researchers visualize the Gene
Ontology, we were trying to do several things at once, though I'm not
sure we were that clear on that as we did it. We were a small
heterogenous te
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
>>
Yes! I can't seem to find a copy of the article. But going on your
description and the figures, it looks like an excellent example of treating
hierarchy as something to measure rather than impute. (The silverchair.com link
didn't work, unfortunately.)
Until I can find a copy, some of what yo
Here is a nice example, of that onus accepted and handled clearly.
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature07749
Topic is the accretionary dependency structure in the large subunit of the
ribosome.
In particular, see Fig. 2, which my image-page on chrome is showing me at this
URL (don’t know if t
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