[FRIAM] WEIRD and STRANGE

2023-03-19 Thread Prof David West
Perhaps Perhaps of interest to the psychologists and ethologists in the group: claim that research is biased (and therefore unreliable to a degree) because the people studied are WEIRD - Western - Educated -Industrialized - Rich - (from) Democratic societies and animals studied are S

[FRIAM] Stephen Hawkings final theory

2023-03-19 Thread Prof David West
Just pre-ordered Hertog's, *On the Origin of Time*, that presents Stephen Hawking's "final" theory - summarized in the phrase: *"The laws of physics are not set in stone but are born and co-evolve as the universe they govern takes shape." *Should be a great read. davew -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .

Re: [FRIAM] Stephen Hawkings final theory

2023-03-19 Thread Jochen Fromm
Certainly true the phrase. Reminds me of "Cosmic Evolution" by Eric Chaisson and "The Life of the Cosmos" by Lee Smolin.If you think about it, then it is obvious that new objects emerge in the universe in the course of time, and that new laws are required to describe them, based on their propert

Re: [FRIAM] ChatGPT and William James

2023-03-19 Thread Eric Charles
I know this conversation has drifted quite a bit but I wanted to point out that if I was a weary lecturer teaching 6 classes a semester, who was thrilled to get anything with complete sentences and a vague semblance of thought, the chat bot gets an A on its responses. If it is in one of the ad

[FRIAM] Sampling bias

2023-03-19 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Hi. Dave. A perennial problem. To the extent that the population of interest is the same as the population sampled, the problem is alleviated. Sent from my Dumb Phone-. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Fridays 9a-12p Friday S