[FRIAM] Shift happens

[Bill Eldridge]

Nicholas Thompson wrote:
> Cant tell if there is some guerinesque legpulling going on here. 
Kinda, but I figured you were talking about William Gibson of 
Neuromancer fame.
> The Gibson I was thinking of was JJ Gibson, inventor of a psychology 
> in which all information is latent in the environment and the organism 
> 'picks it up " by strategies of movement with respect to the 
> environment.  this way of thinking, of course, turns perception into a 
> behavior, just teh way foraging is a behavior.
Gurdjieff taught that impressions are like food.
>  
> Where did you put the girl?
>  
It's a pickup, dude - they got a flatbed.
Course they complain a lot when it rains,
but I ain't gonna get my huntin' dawg all
wet now, am I?
> Nick
>  
> Nick
>  
>  
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Bill Eldridge <mailto:dcbill at volny.cz>
>     *To: *nickthompson at earthlink.net <mailto:nickthompson at earthlink.net>
>     *Cc: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
>     <mailto:friam at redfish.com>
>     *Sent:* 5/30/2007 4:24:57 AM
>     *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Shift happens
>
>
>     No, I didn't even see "The Passion", though "Apocalypto" sounded cool.
>     Back in Alabama, our pickups only had room for a shotgun, a dawg &
>     a case of beer -
>     no room for information - never even missed it, come to think of it.
>
>     Nicholas Thompson wrote:
>>     Bill, 
>>
>>     I notice that you used one of the code words,  information pickup.  Are you
>>     a gibsonian?
>>
>>     Nick 
>>
>>
>>       
>>>     [Original Message]
>>>     From: Bill Eldridge <dcbill at volny.cz>
>>>     To: <nickthompson at earthlink.net>; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity
>>>         
>>     Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
>>       
>>>     Date: 5/29/2007 5:13:37 PM
>>>     Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Shift happens
>>>
>>>
>>>     Dogs hear much better than you.
>>>     Does it bother you that there are frequencies they hear and you don't?
>>>     As Buckminster Fuller notes, "space" is full of electromagnetic waves -
>>>     it's not really empty at all. Does it bother you that you can't see the
>>>     waves passing by?
>>>         
>

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