Yes, exactly! Referring back to the spectrum between episodic and diachronic
personalities, it strikes me that the regular accusations I get of non
sequitur, are something like hairpin turns in my (always bad) rhetoric. It's
also just plain fun to do it and I wish others would do it to me as of
Not clear why one excludes the other. Experience helps to estimate whether a
particular system will better yield to careful study or to chaotic
perturbation. Witness the success of stochastic gradient descent in machine
learning.
On 7/29/19, 11:57 PM, "Friam on behalf of glen∈ℂ" wrote:
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
Hi Nick,
Yes, agreed. I won’t lard, but will try to flag a couple of points (and to
stay brief…)
> [NST==>”should chose to throw it away”: This sentence chilled my heart as no
> sentence has done in a very long time. We are in an age, now, when we are
> choosing to throw the enlightenment a
I mentioned that this discussion depresses me. I felt obligated to think
about why. It has to do with banal, quotidian, personal matters. Policies
that I have developed based on beliefs held for decades no longer seem to
work. That is, they no longer serve to make me "happy". I'm thinking of
s
Sorry. I didn't intend to imply that an interface must be false. But our
tendency is to believe that our interfaces are true. If the closed-minded
realists would admit that lots of data on *how* true our effective models are
(or aren't) is needed, then we could study it thoroughly. It reminds me
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
