While we're getting rid of concepts, let's just get rid of this foolish,
unsubstantiated concept, "the world." What sort of heuristic is THAT?
N
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
-Orig
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 question in terms more
identical to those that Nick uses below to frame it.
Eric
> On Jul 2
glen∈ℂ wrote:
> The 3 excerpts below seem to indicate the (my?) problem. At first, I
> though Marcus was agreeing with me by listing options for
> harm-of-eating-animals. But then he goes toward monism-by-unification
> with "agreeing on what matters" and
> whole-equilibrium-implies-part-equilibriu
Steve writes:
I'm reminded of a book (long misplaced) I inherited from my grandfather's
library (born in 1898) who was for a modest time (<10 years) the
principal of a High School. The book's title was "Straight and Crooked
Thinking" and had a modest amount of marginalia in his (I
Eric,
Can you direct me to any particular passages or chapters in the book? I am
unlikely to read the whole thing, but I want to know your thought.
I rummaged around in the Books.google site for a bit and found this:
If so, I don’t think I was saying anything this profound.
Anyone here who codes regularly (daily?) who thinks this is useful?
As an aging has-been, I can see how it could extend my semi-competence
quite a long way... but could undermine something fundamental the way
GPS seems to be undermining geospatial awareness and wayfinding skills?
https://tabnin
I think GPS increases geographical curiosity, not undermines it.
This technology is objectionable for a different reason: A good software
architecture compresses out every pattern into parameterized macro or higher
order function. There should be no need to say anything more than once.
Whet
Nick stated:
"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."
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
< 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
