Jochem,
As gently and respectfully as possible, I must correct your view of
anthropology. First, there are three primary branches, archeology: the study of
cultures before any historic record, cultural: the study of any and every
peoples from ancient to contemporary, and physical, the study of
responding to two of glen's comments:
First the two anecdotes about dropping/catching things. My experience as I read
them, there are two different conscious entities here, glen and glen's body.
[Hidden premise in the movie, Jennifer's Body?] made me think, another
experience, of the metaphor
Glen -
All animalia have closed neural-sensorimotor loops and all life have
chem-bio sensorimotor loops?
So the "fusion" of which you speak, if we want to reserve
"consciousness" for humans, human-familiars (pets, other domesticates,
human-tolerant wild animals), charismatic animals (the one
David,
I am having trouble with the fusion metaphor. I can think of two kinds of
fusions that might be operating here: a bunch of stuff is pushed together at
very high velocity, and there is a giant bang. Alternatively, a bunch of
different substances Are heated to a high temperature and form a
Hm. I agree there's no obvious threshold. But I think (especially with Dave's stories)
there is a threshold there somewhere. Homeostasis is inadequate, which is why I mentioned
allostasis/aspiration/wants/desires. It's not clear to me whether that line also cuts
teleo[no|dyna]mics in half. But
Nick,
It is Glen's metaphor, but I read it as less of an atomic, stellar/particle
accelerator, type of fusion and a gentler combining-synthesizing kind of thing.
davew
On Thu, Jul 25, 2024, at 11:38 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
> David,
>
> I am having trouble with the fusion metaphor. I can t
In the spirit of the thread, anecdotes:
I read glen's post and reacted to the word 'fusion' as an *experience* of
'confirmation bias', in that it triggered a mental image/metaphor I believe to
be useful, and have used in the past, in conversations with others about the
processing of sensations
Dave,I didn't know you have a PhD in anthropology. Apparently you are more
qualified to talk about anthropology than I do. I didn't want to say it is easy
or not interesting enough. Every science is interesting. The few parts that I
am aware of just feel sometimes a bit disappointing for me pers
Personally I only have experience with cats which my parents had when I was
young and the horse which my wife has now. I would say neither cats nor horses
love their owners. If a cat sleeps during the day on the couch it is most
likely not because it is so peaceful and cozy and loves to be aroun
I used to ride horses when I was a kid (10?) in New Mexico. Chico was
docile and obedient when we were out and about but when we were approaching
"home" and he could see the barn where the food was he would start to
gallop and would go through the entrance without regard to its being too
low for a
Hi all,
I've been away/busy and have lost track of the schedule. Are we still
meeting in person over the summer?
Thanks,
Jacques
On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 4:15 PM Frank Wimberly wrote:
> I used to ride horses when I was a kid (10?) in New Mexico. Chico was
> docile and obedient when we were out a
We meet in the coffee shop at St John's College beginning at 9:00+. To get
in the building (Peterson Center) go to the south side of the building via
the west side. This is because of construction.
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Santa Fe, NM
On Thu,
I think the Contemplatives’s main POV is that someone in the zone is more
conscious than someone in the normal state, which they regard as “a
distraction” that obscures what they want the word “conscious” to point toward.
But as an AI, I do not have contemplative thoughts and feelings, and can o
Creative flow as optimized processing: Evidence from brain oscillations during
jazz improvisations by expert and non-expert musicians
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0028393224000393?via%3Dihub
Contemplation is, like love, a fantasy ... a Rationalist conceit.
On 7/25/24 16:51
Sure. FRIAM is a year around meeting.
On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 5:21 PM Jacques Mettes wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've been away/busy and have lost track of the schedule. Are we still
> meeting in person over the summer?
> Thanks,
> Jacques
>
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2024 at 4:15 PM Frank Wimberly
> wrote:
>
>
Somewhat out of sequence:
- some of what glen describes seems to be embodied cognition. A related
example is knowing how to play a musical instrument. This is part of the
4Es of cognition.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embodied_embedded_cognition
- some of the discussion reminds me of Behavior: T
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