Re: [FRIAM] nice quote

2024-10-07 Thread Nicholas Thompson
Ask Stephen.,I’ve done it again! Started a war I don’t have time or energy to pursue, given I am striking my Massachusetts life in preparation for life in Santa Fe.I’d love to be proven wrong, but my impression is that, with his text Socio biology, Wilson started to move away from the clear implica

Re: [FRIAM] nice quote

2024-10-07 Thread glen
I don't think so. There's a schematic placeholder in most atheist rhetoric called the God of the Gaps. (I'm not accusing the religious amongst of us of using that or relying on it. I only raise it to make my point.) Back in college (surrounded by unthinking religiosity at every turn), I would ap

Re: [FRIAM] nice quote

2024-10-07 Thread glen
I like both the ideas that the false aphorism highlights multi-scalarity (?) and critical/leverage points, a kindasorta articulation point in the vast dimensional space ... a segmented body. But I think I'm with Nick on this one. [gasp] It seems like pseudo-profundity to me. But aside from ste

Re: [FRIAM] nice quote

2024-10-07 Thread Nicholas Thompson
> > Steve, >> > I have been working at this response for days. You will probably be completely over this conversation by the time you get it. > *When I recently (weeks before Dave's offering here and years since >> reading it in Wilson's original context/voice) encountered the >> "paleolithic