Dave,
The Friam list remains as you can see but is sort of a trickle. I posted a
couple of items about the Cooper/Colbert interview and something I can't
remember but they weren't up to the high intellectual standard which
engages you, Glen, Marcus, Nick, et al. Glen did comment insightfully.
Ni
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Frank, Dave,
Well I AM tied up with relocation issues, so haven’t been paying close
attention, but …
I just did a search in my inbox and there is nothing from FRIAM from 24 August
on.
I have always understood that the Friam-Owner. is like the wine pourer at a
classical “symposium”
FRIAM is such a strange beast. At times full of philosophical
discourse that flies far above my head, other times full of
irreverent inanities that defy categorization, and occasionally even with
something to do with complexity. And then the periodic deafening silence
that makes me realize just how
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On 12 Sep 2019, at 11:45, Nick Thompson wrote:
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> Nicholas S. Thompson
FRIAM Applied Complexity
With few apologize, I have not been contributing very much as of late.
The last few months have offered new opportunities for work, meditations
on new life, and a whole lot of commutative ring theory / algebraic
geometry.
Sometime soon, I hope to meet with my friend Ashley (an ex-Johnnie)
whom it
Jon
What on earth is a D and D campaign?
Imagination runs wild.
The first question to an evolutionist is, “what is a given pain for?” So, pain
is a mechanism to get the organism to do or not to do something, including, in
social species, to cry for help. Once you know what a pain
Dave -
I had noticed a slowdown a while back, but being on the road for 3 weeks
myself, I haven't contributed or really noticed the grinding halt until
now as you call it out. By coincidence I had dinner and beers with Glen
along the way, and I'm pretty sure he has brought Hoffman's work up here
We love our "flocking" models but FRIAM is less of a
'birds-of-a-feather' group than something much harder to similize. It
feels to me that some of our conversations are a bit flocky or schooly
(rarely herdy) but others are more geophysical like flares or
eruptions... a good schoolyard "pileon"
Straw man:
Nick: People don't think, they only behave.
Frank: You reached that conclusion by thinking.
Nick: You presume to have observed my reaching the conclusion.
Frank: I am certain your mind works like mine.
Nick: How could you know that? You are a Cartesian.
Frank: And proud of i
The best answer to "so what?" comes in Hoffman's paper:
Natural selection and veridical perceptions
http://www.cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/PerceptualEvolution.pdf
from the abstract:
> We find that veridical perceptions can be driven to extinction by
> non-veridical strategies that are tuned to ut
So, you are late meeting the train to Albuquerque. As you drive into the
station, you see a train sitting at the platform, absolutely motionless. You
rush up to the conductor and demand to know, “Is this train going to
Albuquerque?” “No!” the Frank, conductor replies. As you can plainly see,
Glen,
In haste: "what is the validator of a veridical perception?"
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Beha
Again from the paper:
> The *simple* strategy, which is a critical realist strategy, observes only
> one resource per territory, say food. If the quantity of that resource is
> above a threshold, it sees ‘‘green,’’ otherwise its sees ‘‘red.’’ If there is
> only one green territory, the agent cho
On 9/12/19 4:24 PM, uǝlƃ ☣ wrote:
> The best answer to "so what?" comes in Hoffman's paper:
Glen -
I may be missing your point badly, but your response lead me to flip my
thinking inside out and ask myself just what I mean by "so what" and
realized that *might* be the central point to Hoffman's
Jon -
Congratulations on your fresh parentage... the perfect (long) moment to
consider many issues around the meaning of life, consciousness, etc. (as
you are).
Of note it is interesting what you juxtapose: Playing D&D with someone
who you are also (out of band from the game) discussing phenom
Heh, I doubt you're missing my point. And please don't mistake my
defense/explanation of Hoffman as advocacy. I think it's interesting. But he
relies too much, IMO, on idealized modeling. So, I don't think the interface
idea is really all that important. But it is interesting.
To me, though, t
I have been working hard to finally take a vacation. Too much focus on how
to regulate bitcoin and I am exhausted.
Anyway, first stop St Petersburg! And when I finally got a moment to check
on what was percolating, there was nothing. I was frankly alarmed at the
lack of traffic. We need more caffe
One application distributed ledger systems have for currency is precisely as
mechanism to bypass regulation.
A common reason for the bypass is crime. Another reason is as an
organizational tool against those in power who abuse it. It doesn’t take a
lot of imagination these days to see that t
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