[FRIAM] Complexity Returns to the Mother Church (or v.v?).

2018-10-12 Thread Nick Thompson
A Homily from the Mother Church, Dear Bretheren and Sisteren, Was it because Robert Holmes returned to the fold, or was it just a coincidence that today we returned to discussions of such topics as emergence, determination, downward causality, and the possibility of explanatory reduction o

Re: [FRIAM] Complexity Returns to the Mother Church (or v.v?).

2018-10-12 Thread Frank Wimberly
Search for "Glymour publications CMU waste mind" to read a paper on related topics by my erstwhile boss, who is a well-known philosopher of science. Don't worry, he has a very good sense of humor. Frank --- Frank Wimberly My memoir: https://www.amazon.com/author/f

Re: [FRIAM] Complexity Returns to the Mother Church (or v.v?).

2018-10-12 Thread uǝlƃ ☣
On 10/12/18 3:46 PM, Nick Thompson wrote: > 5. ... From the strength of the triangle one can infer something about the > parts that make it up, but from the parts themselves, lacking information > about their arrangement, one cannot determine that the triangle will be > strong. UNLESS! The info

Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers

2018-10-12 Thread Nick Thompson
Ok, folks, the mystery continues. Of the 12 G I freed up on my computer moving stuff to the external HD and deleting stuff AND deleting the trash AND cleaning up system files, repeatedly, all but 5 G had been replaced 24 hours later! I had done nothing on the machine in the meantime but