Re: [FRIAM] models, reality, etc.

2019-01-12 Thread Nick Thompson
Wow. It's all those things at once! REALLY?! What a great example! Let me try and put it into words. The nominalist would like to say “There is no real pattern there, it just depends on how you want to look at it.” The realist would like to say, “Nonsense. The patterns appea

Re: [FRIAM] Motives - Was Abduction

2019-01-12 Thread Prof David West
Steven, Fall of 1968, I abandoned physics and adopted Asian Philosophy (first semester at Macalester College). Since then, every spare moment, and many not so spare, was dedicated to learning and practicing. My vocation, quite by accident, was always programming/software/IT but everything in that

Re: [FRIAM] models, reality, etc.

2019-01-12 Thread Marcus Daniels
Entanglement is probabilistic: Look for a dot at some location, if you see one, then there's a probability of seeing another dot at another location, and a different probability if you don't. On 1/12/19, 11:53 AM, "Friam on behalf of Prof David West" wrote: This popped up elsewhere an

Re: [FRIAM] models, reality, etc.

2019-01-12 Thread Prof David West
Given an "experiencer": - what is directly "experienced" is apparently randomly moving dots. - what is "interpreted" from that experience (a kind of meta-experience) are 'triangles', 'squares', 'stars', and 'prisms'. - every experiencer's behavior will be grounded on the interpretations, not

Re: [FRIAM] Motives - Was Abduction

2019-01-12 Thread Prof David West
Glen, I want to respond to this but my knowledge of graphs is laughable, so please be patient. When I attempt to visualize a graph to use as a metaphor for explaining my notions of individualism — the image in my mind is of Indra's Net ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indra%27s_net ) which it

Re: [FRIAM] Motives - Was Abduction

2019-01-12 Thread Marcus Daniels
Some counter examples: 1) You do not have the potential to fully informed. The governments of China or Iran would never give you access to their classified data, for example. Heck, the US government probably wouldn't either with all your discussion of psychedelics and what not! 2) You canno

Re: [FRIAM] models, reality, etc.

2019-01-12 Thread Eric Smith
A person who works in data compression, randomness, or statistical mechanics might try to frame a description that is as operational and contains as much structural resolution in it as possible, by drawing language from the sectors of behavior and observation that are as robustly disambiguatable

Re: [FRIAM] models, reality, etc.

2019-01-12 Thread Jochen Fromm
Some say entanglement is related to spacetime itself. There was a Quanta magazine article about it recently.https://www.quantamagazine.org/time-entanglement-raises-quantum-mysteries-20160119/ -Jochen Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone. Original message From: Marcus Daniels

[FRIAM] Micro:bit event March 8

2019-01-12 Thread Edward Angel
On March 8 4-6 PM, there will be a community micro:bit event at Meow Wolf, jointly sponsored by Meow Wolf, the Computer Science Alliance and the Santa Fe Alliance for Science. It will bring together students, teachers, parents, hackers and many others including I hopeFRIAM and Wedtech to demo, s