[FRIAM] Somethint to talk about tomorrow

[Alfredo]

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Douglas Roberts wrote:

> *Everybody* has MS Doc format (+/-) available to them, for free:
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> I use it all the time.
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> --Doug
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> On 6/9/07, Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net 
> <mailto:owen at backspaces.net>> wrote:
>
>     Is there any way we could pass around pdf's or just text papers we
>     share with each other?  I no longer have MS Office available, nor
>     does anyone in my household, and I would like to avoid getting it.  I
>     think I got the right stuff via textedit, I attach the pdf, but I'm
>     not sure I got it all.
>
>
>
>
>          -- Owen
>
>
>     On Jun 7, 2007, at 11:35 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
>
>     > All,
>     >
>     > Every once in a while, I run into a passage so sharp and well
>     > written that it rattles my whole world. The passage is from
>     >
>     > Bendor and Swistak (1998) 'Evolutionary Equilibria:
>     > CharacterizationTheorems and their Implications', Theory and
>     > Decision, 45, 99-159.  ( from pages 113-116]
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > For anybody doing game theory modelling it's a must read.  It also
>     > demonstrates (once again) the dangers of intentional-mentalistic
>     > theoretical terms (in this case, "strategy") in modelling
>     > exercises.  The profound point for me is that selection for a
>     > behavior performed under a particular set of circumstances is NOT
>     > selection for a strategy, unless another strategy exists in the
>     > population that does not perform that behavior under those
>     > circumstances.  (Following the model of words like "isozyme", let
>     > us say that two strategies that produce the same behaviors under a
>     > given set of circumstances as "isoethic" (from ethology).  and say
>     > that the same two strategies may be "alloethic" under a different
>     > set of circumstances. )  Selection cannot occur between two
>     > strategies UNLESS they are alloethic.   Whether two strategies are
>     > allo- or iso-ethic is not solely a propery of them or even  of the
>     > relation between them but a property of the relation between them
>     > in relation to what other strategies are within the population!
>     > The thing about this way of thinking that makes my palms sweat is
>     > suddently makes Waddington's concept of Genetic Assimilation
>     > totally transparent.  Before the heat shock procedure, there was
>     > isoethic variation in wing-formation genes; in the context of heat
>     > shock, this variation became alloethic, and could be selected.
>     >
>     > ANYWAY.  Dont read thompson, read the damn passage.
>     >
>     > NIck
>     > <Doc5.doc>
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