[FRIAM] WERE: DOH!

Glen and others, We have all known for a long time that this is generally true about mankind. We are not supposed to speak about such truths. So we Keep inventing smart machines to avoid using people who can not be trusted. We may claim to be protecting the Children or symbols or something but

Re: [FRIAM] speculative Q

Sometimes I wonder if our society may in fact be a collaboration of the criminal minded. The fact that it appears to promote civilization seems a convenient Cover-Up story. If money is the only incentive how can we distinguish corporation execs from drug lords or war lords. Even the courts see

Re: [FRIAM] speculative Q

If the truth did matter there is very little evidence of it. Quite often a viewpoint from the empowered is sufficient. We seem to have done pretty well thinking the earth the center of the universe. Knowing the truth seemed to be reason enough to end up in the market square to be incinerated. The

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

Gentlemen and ladies, There seem to be many diverse combatants demanding that we align our minds to facilitate their agendas or delusions.  Am I ,your enemy if I choose to think for myself. Why must I accept unwanted fear from pundits. It is very difficult to exist as an independent entity.

Re: [FRIAM] Trump Is Just A Normal Polling Error Behind Clinton | FiveThirtyEight

ould look on and do nothing." On 11/10/2016 09:08 PM, VLADIMYR BURACHYNSKY wrote: > There seem to be many diverse combatants demanding that we align our minds to > facilitate their agendas or delusions. > >  Am I ,your enemy if I choose to think for myself. Why must I accept

Re: [FRIAM] Please I need help with a technical term

Peck_Ground_Now is "Seeds" Birds peck for gravel to aid digestion in the crop. They have to replace the grinding stones regularly. So without grit they starve to death even when supplied with more than adequate g rain. Your interpretation of this particular symbol requires a modification. I

Re: [FRIAM] Please I need help with a technical term

ymbol claim in all the same ways they could challenge our bird-symbol claim. --- Eric P. Charles, Ph.D. Supervisory Survey Statistician U.S. Marine Corps On Fri, Nov 11, 2016 at 9:49 PM, VLADIMYR BURACHYNSKY wrote: Peck_Ground_Now is "Seeds" Birds p

Re: [FRIAM] Please I need help with a technical term

hypothesis/assertion regarding our own symbolic interaction with the world, and can be mistaken. A third party can challenge our self-symbol claim in all the same ways they could challenge our bird-symbol claim. --- Eric P. Charles, Ph.D. Supervisory Survey Statistician

Re: [FRIAM] Please I need help with a technical term

and the female said, "He's crazy, isn't he?". The male said, "What difference does that make?" Irrelevant to your points but an amusing memory. Frank Frank Wimberly Phone (505) 670-9918 On Nov 16, 2016 6:44 PM, "Vladimyr Burachynsky" wrote: Nick,

Re: [FRIAM] Please I need help with a technical term

ogy Clark University <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Vladimyr Burachynsky Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2016 11:32 PM To: 'The Friday Morning Appl

Re: [FRIAM] The Sign Game

Nick and Cody, Cody exposed a chink in the problem. The object is not the beginning of the issue it is the Robin’s mind that imparts the response in particular the male robin’s brain. When the Brain connects a visual stimulus with a comparison pattern in storage, a certain threshold i

Re: [FRIAM] The Sign Game

ormulation. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Vladimyr Burachynsky Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 4:29 P

Re: [FRIAM] The Sign Game

Nick, I hope this link is of some value. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161121165921.htm Vladimyr vib From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Nick Thompson Sent: November-18-16 3:19 PM To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' Subject: Re: [

Re: [FRIAM] Stop Calling People "Low Information Voters" | Quillette

To the Congregation, Canada has recently thrown out a crony conservative party replaced by a supposedly more moderate liberal party. But very recently we have become alarmed by their behavior, they presume to be speaking on the constituents behalf. We ask where those ideas came from in stunned d

Re: [FRIAM] Divided America

Nice to hear from Jochen seems like a long absence. The political weather seems to have become more turbulent. The directional Vectors from Italy and Austria only add to the mess. Fear of the future appears to manifest itself in many oddities. Canadians are only joking when they suggest

Re: [FRIAM] Divided America

ty <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Vladimyr Burachynsky Sent: Monday, December 05, 2016 12:36 AM To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity C

Re: [FRIAM] Divided America

Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University <http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Vladimyr

Re: [FRIAM] Please Help. Was it a dream?

Nick , Perhaps a nightmare? The intriguing aspect of what has happened worldwide, is that reaction is focused on the "Elites" An Italian Political Scientist suggested that the left and the right joined forces for the first time to stop Renzi's referendum just as in Britain. http://www.nature

Re: [FRIAM] Trump, truth, and politics: Why do we still think Trump is acting with respect to the truth?

I think I am responding to Eric Charles, It appears as you suggest rather trivial… Yet it does contain a rather startling component. Accusation This need not be based on truth it seems or context. Accusation by itself draws to itself Gullible believers that then they are encouraged to rio

Re: [FRIAM] Is the new president mentally ill?

On 01/11/2017 03:34 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote: > Eric I believe you are wrong if you believe you can have a narcissistic > person on your site. A narcissist cares only for himself. The policy of Trump > boils down to "I'm great and you're not unless you are like me, myself and I, > you loser". Ther

Re: [FRIAM] Cold War Jitters Resurface as U.S. Marines Arrive in Norway - The New York Times

The New York Times article seems to conflate geography like a party game, Twister. It starts in Norway switches to Sweden, Finland, Lithuania Kalingrad and keeps returning to fear and Russia. They should have provided a map to keep track of the game pieces. The Norwegians share an interest i

Re: [FRIAM] Nautilus: Investing Is More Luck Than Talent

"Neoliberalism is simply the idea that any full exploration of the phenotype requires parallel processing." Well said, and that does not even include the "extended Phenotype" nor the much hairier and very fearsome," Genotypes". Since I am not a Neoliberal, but was proudly declared an enemy

Re: [FRIAM] Globalism in the age of populism? .. & Open Source Software

To Glen and Marcus, Not so fast gentlemen. You managed to pull apart a few strands using tried assumptions. The Alpha is the most conspicuous personality type commonly encountered in smallish sample sizes, <10,000 individuals. Once when lounging about in the grad students lounge a group of naus

Re: [FRIAM] Globalism in the age of populism? .. & Open Source Software

Marcus , You are quite correct and describe the Hitler type quite well. I never agreed with some of the Nuremberg trial conclusions that wished to attribute all the sins of Nazi Germany on a few maniacs. The truth was that the Germans knew quite well what was happening. The arrival of skinheads f

Re: [FRIAM] Globalism in the age of populism? .. & Open Source Software

? .. & Open Source Software On 01/27/2017 08:34 PM, Vladimyr Burachynsky wrote: > So I cause confusion only because I do not fit into any well > established classification system. I bring this up because my experience in > life defies most systems which you are attempting to tease apart.

Re: [FRIAM] AI advance

To Joseph Spinden, The article is old and I wonder if you play the game. I ran a Go club at the University of Manitoba and can tell you strange stories about a time before Hassabis. I swear I never won a game in 5 years but I kept playing anyway. I guess I am bloody minded. Eventually I discovere

Re: [FRIAM] AI advance

y the M00se Dooderson has beat me every time we have played I think. Weak, weak, weak! But I do find it fascinating. - Steve On 1/30/17 8:07 PM, Vladimyr Burachynsky wrote: > To Joseph Spinden, > > The article is old and I wonder if you play the game. > I ran a Go club at

Re: [FRIAM] Globalism in the age of populism? .. & Open Source Software

The elites can not be accurately defined as a coherent group since the accusers are shooting in so many divergent directions. No more than a young child’s fear of the closet ghost, which can ever be used in a forensic investigation. There may not be elites but certainly there are many fearful

Re: [FRIAM] Globalism in the age of populism? .. & Open Source Software

Pamela. Thank-you, but I rarely ever use the word pain and did not use it in my post. Some of us can endure more than others. The fear of pain seems to have also become more prevalent in the recent past. Now the fear of inconvenience or waiting in a line. Our fears have been trivialized or commo

Re: [FRIAM] free will on the ten meter tower

Thank you Roger Critchlow, The video shows people overcoming fear in a social setting. Which is in some way confirming the benefits of a society, But it also hints at the extremes some people are willing to go to escape fear. Perhaps those with the most fear are the most worrisome. vib

Re: [FRIAM] What does it mean to say that it will probably rain tomorrow?

You guys are Nuts and have too much time, That includes me. Somehow you have managed to braid together lies, probability and fake news. Perhaps many humans feel good whenever they influence others. Weather ladies telling to be happy whenever it goes above 30c ( I hate heat) Poker players try

Re: [FRIAM] Theorore Spyropoulos's group on "Behavioral Complexity" at UCL

Steve Guerin, Thanks so much, I think this is at least the second time someone from FRIAM sent me in the right direction. I loved this work and I am trying to compile many more examples, my site is sort off deranged currently. https://vimeo.com/55938597 https://vimeo.com/165006724 T

Re: [FRIAM] Why depth/thickness matters

This iconoclast appreciates this thread simply because symbols are only approximations of reality constrained by our limited knowledge and language. The Fly Ball imagery is startlingly profound and played a major role in my own coding efforts. I never believed that our brains contained a cal

Re: [FRIAM] Why depth/thickness matters

I am an iconoclast as a consequence of trying to use statistical modelling during earlier stages of my life. zThese statistical models were generally very poor when applied to field work in animal distributions until someone accepted that truth and started admitting "clumpiness in distributions"

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

Nick or Glen, I have been mulling over the thread about Representation versus Dynamicism for a bit and the differences that language imposes whenever cross-disciplines attempt to converse. Today I was struggling with some code to create Voronoi Meshes nested within each other based on nest

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

ation methods have failed you and the transform you're using is _not_ the one you think you're using, matters less -- and can be more readily debugged. I.e. when we're looking at an ink blot, are we aware that the more prickly ones allow less ambiguity? On 02/15/2017 06:20 PM, V

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

7;re using is _not_ the one you think you're using, matters less -- and can be more readily debugged. I.e. when we're looking at an ink blot, are we aware that the more prickly ones allow less ambiguity? On 02/15/2017 06:20 PM, Vladimyr Burachynsky wrote: > I have been mulling over t

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

ng about a tesselation of the sphere's surface. I thought you intended a 3D irregular grid. Regardless, I certainly didn't notice the camera issue. I did notice an odd squashing of the earth textured sphere, though. On 02/20/2017 10:12 PM, Vladimyr Burachynsky wrote: > Glen, >

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

e real. That the other guy couldn't grok it could be a sign that he's never entered that zone, hamstrung by his grounding to physical reality. Or, he could have simply felt defensive because he thought we kept attacking him ... you never know how some people interpret the milieu. On 02/

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

ll) place on coherence and internal consistency. It seems like some sort of rhetorical fallacy, perhaps the fallacy fallacy. Perhaps we can arrive at the truth in spite of completely flawed (e.g. self-inconsistent) representations? Even a broken clock (Trump) is right (a)periodically. On 02/21/

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

To the congregation, Oops, someone is watching…. I had Better pull up my trousers and get a shave Jeez, I was only running off at the mouth about getting into TensorFlow code. vib From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Jon Zingale Sent: February-23-17 12:29 PM

Re: [FRIAM] Wow! He did Good!

Well, maybe Sanfa Fe and Winnipeg could become sister cities and piss off both our federal governments. Your Mayor has balls. Maybe doing the right thing takes some special kind of courage. vib From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Nick Thompson Sent: February-23

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

Glen, I think Robert Wall is nudging close to an idea that he failed to adequately clarify but you may have nailed it while trying to deny it (this I call a backhanded strike). Last week there was a strange article about groups of people having the same memory that have no contact with each oth

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

Gentlemen and audience, The tempest ( Glen) and the captain of a small vessel (Robert) lashed to the mast. Are not in any form of disagreement by their own admissions. OK, from my vantage point in the cold inhospitable North Lands , I sense a salient exchange of cannon fire. Let's look at event

Re: [FRIAM] FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

cessary. Just stop. As a fellow madman, I love you like brothers. Thanks, Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.c

Re: [FRIAM] Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

I am attached to the thread’s name. It strikes me as so outlandish that it deserves attention. On the speculated history of song-birds was a recent paper suggesting most if not all songbirds appear to have had a singular ancestry from SE Asia or Australasia. If you seek to embellish the

Re: [FRIAM] IS: Rhetoric in scientific arguments WAS: FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

Eric, I doubt an idea before I ever apply for a grant. Then I deceptively claim to be trying to replicate an authorities claims. But the devil within me recalls that at least once maybe more often , I have noticed that the authority’s prediction failed. That knowledge is my group’s secret u

Re: [FRIAM] IS: Rhetoric in scientific arguments WAS: FW: Fractal discussion Landscape-bird songs

Glen , I had a favorite student once that I favored and explained this business like selling fast- food... Give the managers and accountants what they want. vib Is that with or without mayo sir? -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ? Sent:

Re: [FRIAM] Questions, rants and Raves...

Gillian, I recently started to use Processing 3.0.2 but not js only .pde as from Processing.org. The download was free and a little quirky to set up but seems to work and you can download working source code from Open Processing. Much that gets you up to speed quickly. I did notice some

Re: [FRIAM] Daphnia's jeans

Jochen Fromm " What would be needed to reconstruct a mind?" I had to respond, I suspect a kind of Koan content to the question. Reconstruct or Construct?? Since the latter does not seem to have occurred historically I am not sure the former is possible at this time. Then I bumped into one of Hum

Re: [FRIAM] A question for your Roboteers out there

Jochen said" "information about the system itself" and "information about other things" is the point where self-awareness begins " Perhaps this thought is perhaps a little overly compacted. Information about self does not require language, indeed awareness of the outside world does not require la

Re: [FRIAM] A question for your Roboteers out there

ehalf Of ERIC P. CHARLES Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 5:32 PM To: Vladimyr Burachynsky Cc: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' Subject: Re: [FRIAM] A question for your Roboteers out there I'm not sure whether it matters to this discussion, but James Gibson (famous

Re: [FRIAM] A question for your Roboteers out there

tion is actually done that way. Nick From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of ERIC P. CHARLES Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2011 5:32 PM To: Vladimyr Burachynsky Cc: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' Subject: Re: [FRIAM] A q

Re: [FRIAM] A question for your Roboteers out there

election after a revolution: an elation accompanied by obfuscation, a kind of entrancement which causes puzzlement. Or is it? -J. - Original Message - From: "Vladimyr Burachynsky" To: "'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'" Sent: Tuesday, February 08

Re: [FRIAM] Graphics Class at SFX

Hello Edward, I am very interested but live in Canada. Currently I am working with Maple14 mat software and work on a problem of Braiding style fabrication using animations, I had hoped to learn a little to allow me to use better graphics for the mathematical procedures I have developed.

Re: [FRIAM] Streaming of Ed Angel's OpenGL class at Santa Fe Complex

Help anybody, please, I tried logging into to ustream and after a monstrous number of requests to join clubs or groups got completely misdirected to more and more ads... I am not up on the social media stuff so it is new to me. I managed to see a few minutes of video with sound then it disappeare

Re: [FRIAM] Work! Fer Gawd and Newton's sake!

Eric , Please do not disengage just yet, first. I did not know if the mysterious Writer wished to use engineering terms or to simply capitalize on Cache. It does not matter either way. The fact is the brain cobbled together all these terms long before Newton Leibniz and Descartes. So why why wo

Re: [FRIAM] vol 93, issue 22

It appears that your conclusion was made independent of the facts. Perhaps your conclusion serves some unidentified agenda, could you explain who WE is and how the PRICE TAG is adjusted to effect a specific end? I ecall how the price of cigarettes in Canada was increased to reflect the supposed in

Re: [FRIAM] The Brown Underside of Green Technologies WAS: RE: vol 93, issue 22

Speaking as a Troll , Eric is correct and careful with his words, and also paraphrasing Bertrand Russell , Humanity is notoriously bad at anticipating the consequences of its actions. But, and these are my words now , we are very expert at making up fairy tales to explain away our misdeeds. Pegg

Re: [FRIAM] vol 93, issue 22

Ladies and Gentlemen, Peggy`s inquiries Reveal astonishing complexities. http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/editorial/story.html?id=c66e05ea-959 6-4e38-9ead-72ffe5147a4c http://money.canoe.ca/money/business/international/archives/2011/03/20110304 -081739.html http://business.tim

Re: [FRIAM] Stu on NPR.org > Even Evolution Evolves: Changing Ideas On The Biosphere

And every time a species goes to extinction the former new but filled niches vanish. Sounds a bit like a Steady state of musical chairs. Unfortunately the word evolution supposes purpose or direction which it seems steadfast to keep hidden. Vladimyr Ivan Burachynsky PhD

Re: [FRIAM] Stu on NPR.org > Even Evolution Evolves: Changing Ideas On The Biosphere

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Vladimyr Burachynsky wrote: And every time a species goes to extinction the former new but filled niches vanish. Sounds a bit like a Steady state of musical chairs. Unfortunately the word evolution supposes purpose or direction which it seems stead

Re: [FRIAM] Memetic Drift in Threads, was: off topic....., but still

Very sly you are Steve Smith, The topic with no Name has been an ever present part of the group discussions. It drifts because we have never nailed it to the wall. There is a propensity to organize and control discussions. The nameless issues are like flies in our face. We try so hard to shoo them

Re: [FRIAM] Terrorosity and it's Fruits

I urge the angry to ask why. Too often storming away from a table is exactly why we never break ground. As to the topic of Complexity , this is one component you never inquired of, Why do sensible people become IDIOTS. How does society create idiots out of men? That was my reason to join long ago

Re: [FRIAM] Modeling obfuscation (was - Terrorosity and it's Fruits)

To Mohammed, I have similar thoughts but rather than a system of Rules I thought of a system of interacting self preoccupied emotions. The agent has a roulette wheel of options with weights assigned randomly to make some choices more common than others, no fixed rules a priori. Let us assume t

Re: [FRIAM] Modeling obfuscation (was - Terrorosity and it's Fruits)

Eric and Mohammed, I don’t think anyone can be Off base at this point in sketching out a scenario. But you might be trying to tackle Goliath in the first round! Firstly I assume human beings are not very bright, They seem to use extremely simple rules of self satisfaction, though the emo

Re: [FRIAM] Modeling obfuscation (was - Terrorosity and it's Fruits)

11 at 06:17:04PM -0500, Vladimyr Burachynsky wrote: > > > It is an old joke , but the more people in the room the dumber it gets. > Having grown up on a sheep farm, I can say this definitely applies to sheep. An individual sheep is quite difficult to control, and I have a lot o

Re: [FRIAM] Modeling obfuscation (was - Terrorosity and it's Fruits)

The outline Steve has provided is very helpful. Much of Eric’s ideas governing a group of agents is what I imagine happens within a single agent. The Narrative then is constructed to eliminate the memory of discord. The winning subagent ( perhaps Hussein’s Dr.Clever) rewrites the experience to m

Re: [FRIAM] What evolves?

Nothing will evolve as long as sex exists to prevent it. Most mutations simply fail to implant in the uterus. Many are shed soon after. If the fetus gets to parturition ,the midwives get rid of it. Or the mother just eats them if they do not smell right. Typically in mammals there is constant chem

Re: [FRIAM] Why Evolve , when you Thriving!

To Nick Thompson, Perhaps the attraction is the nature of complex systems, they move a lot of resources from one form to another. The entire ecology of diseases and parasitism is based on leveraging resources out of complex systems. Human beings seem to behave as if a civilization is a c

Re: [FRIAM] symmetry breaking

Hello All, Years ago I ran some funky little tests spinning liquid epoxy on a platter to attempt perfect parabolas. The equations required angular velocity and viscosity to get the correct equation for curvature. If your sink is analogous then the swirling motion should leave the water near

Re: [FRIAM] symmetry breaking video

straw is a nice test of that proposition. Nick From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Vladimyr Burachynsky Sent: Saturday, July 02, 2011 8:54 PM To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' Subject: Re: [FRIAM] symmet

Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: The Psychology Of Yogurt

magical wand. Is the issue of human rights really so trivial that one individual can strip another of protection because of a hidden desire? Good luck. Vladimyr Burachynsky. From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of Steve Smith Sent: September

Re: [FRIAM] 99%, occupyWallStreet, Santa Fe, etc.

How to make people feel they are part of a Group… If they collectively decide to cover up a crime through willful blindness then they establish some certainty that they belong. Groups seem to demand that individuals Believe the unBelievable. It seems that some human beings have the capacity

Re: [FRIAM] 99%, occupyWallStreet, Santa Fe, etc.

Hi Steve, I am not sure about Google but many Internet Groups exhibit a bit of the conventional school yard bully tactics. In general this Friam Group seems relatively free from that sort of thing. At least no one is accusing me of thinking I am some "Kind of Scientist" I suspect that grou

Re: [FRIAM] Privacy in the workplace

Thank you Joshua, Furthering that article one must also consider Gaze Aversion which allows a listener to avoid distraction. Which interferes with thinking out complex thoughts. Privacy is simply an extreme measure to control Cognitive Overload. People who can Think seem to be able to do so

Re: [FRIAM] GlowScript 0.7

Thanks Bruce , I appreciate the link to the Glowscript and am intrigued. In a way it is not exactly what I expected but nevertheless it has an obvious strategic value. The interactivity is clearly important. I will expect some difficulty for a short period but that was expected . https://skydrive

Re: [FRIAM] YES YES YES and Hurrah

Dear Eric P. Charles, Thank you for the Stomp/Romp. Too mild for a rant you behaved within the civilized parameters at all times. Toe on the line but let’s forgive that and cheer the sentiment. I have to ask why even an intelligent person can make some kind of sense out of Gibberish. Was i

Re: [FRIAM] FW: See this?

Gentlemen, the DNA is not the only constituent of the functional fertilized egg. The Cell Membrane and it's enormous complexity is derived from maternal components. The mitochondrial DNA is entirely maternal. So it appears all the basic cellular machinery is maternal since the donor Male component

Re: [FRIAM] vol 98, iss.25 psychology cont'd

re: Group Power We have had a year or more watching developments across North Africa and the Middle East. Indeed it is a painfully slow drama of conflict between Groups and those they exclude( though they may be regarded as less than human they are still lethal). Each Group as it seeks to res

Re: [FRIAM] Journalism for developers

To Owen Densmore, Perhaps this is the most Kafkaesque Link I have ever seen. I was entirely mesmerized. I had to share it with some friends and am waiting the storm to rise. Please keep this stuff coming as it seems to be the early stages of a huge human revolution. It does have the distu

Re: [FRIAM] Does philosophy have a heuristic value

To Roger and Nick, That idea has been on the backburner of Biology for 5 decades or more. The greatest problem in the 70’s and later was Statistics which tended to dismiss anything outside of a curve. It started after the second war when an unusual coincidence of scientific minds started

Re: [FRIAM] Slasdhot linked article RE; god

So... Delusions are very common and make up the bulk of frenetic Human Activity. Since so few know which Delusions may turn out to be falsifiable, they must resort to a dirty trick. They defend every delusion with denial: should the truth remain , they then resort to threat of violence and when o

Re: [FRIAM] Slasdhot linked article RE; god

This is becoming a shark feeding frenzy of Media demanding that I believe different versions of the demented beliefs. Which ever outlet I side with demands I become a believer. I am not Normal to begin with, otherwise I MIGHT actually take up arms and shoot at a target they suggest. Should I tak

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] Re: academic fields whose practitioners believe ...

Marcus or to Steve, Damn Good Call. If you would not have uttered such a comment I would not now have such a headache. The threads have become confusing with everyone cutting and pasting chunks with unclear attributions. ( could we get coloured highlights ?) You have the advantage of seeing each

[FRIAM] [ SPAM ] RE: clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

To Marcus and Group, If there are multiple points of view of any event, which one of the many can be true, or are all true in some respect? If every view point is contaminated by default belief/delusion how can we decide which is true? Consensus or democracy seems appealing but it is a very simp

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] RE: clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

To Glen or so it seems, I have the distinct awkward feeling that, while I write, there is no compelling evidence of my existence, only my utterings. Perhaps my hollow ringing echoes are sufficient to serve as my fake evidence, should I choose to perjure myself in a court. Is there such a beast

Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] RE: clinical diagnosis of [a]theism?

44 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [ SPAM ] RE: clinical diagnosis of [a]theism? On 01/29/2015 07:56 PM, Vladimyr Burachynsky wrote: > I have the distinct awkward feeling that, while I write, there is no > compelling evidence of my existence