[FRIAM] 1. Re: Rosen, Life Itself (Marcus G. Daniels)

[Phil Henshaw]

Word collage??   I don't think what my mom would do in the 60's in our
church ladies group, making collages with colored magazine clippings, pretty
things to arrange, is how nature scavenges wastes and turns them into it's
most valued resources...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nicholas Thompson [mailto:nickthompson at earthlink.net]
> Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2008 10:58 PM
> To: Phil Henshaw; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Cc: Jkennison at clarku.edu
> Subject: RE: [FRIAM] 1. Re: Rosen, Life Itself (Marcus G. Daniels)
> 
> I am not so sanguine about what I think of as word collage.  I know it
> is
> old fashioned, but I am REALLY (now I _am_shouting) committed to the
> notion
> that  the test of communication is how well one has been understood,
> not
> whether one has used the words that make one proud.
> 
> Nick
> 
> Nicholas S. Thompson
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
> Clark University (nthompson at clarku.edu)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > [Original Message]
> > From: Phil Henshaw <sy at synapse9.com>
> > To: <nickthompson at earthlink.net>; The Friday Morning Applied
> Complexity
> Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
> > Cc: <Jkennison at clarku.edu>
> > Date: 8/9/2008 11:05:57 AM
> > Subject: RE: [FRIAM] 1. Re: Rosen, Life Itself (Marcus G. Daniels)
> >
> > Interesting observation.  That's rather common in how conversations
> and
> > languages evolve I think, reusing pieces snatched from old ones,
> without
> the
> > whole.  In culture the 'compost' is very nutritious.  Natural
> systems,
> > biology and economies often find new uses for the compost of prior
> > constructs left over, bent a bit maybe, used in combination with
> other
> bits
> > of things from other origins maybe.  That's how technologies cross
> fertilize
> > too.   The most natural thing around, really.
> >
> > Phil
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: friam-bounces at redfish.com [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com]
> On
> > > Behalf Of Nicholas Thompson
> > > Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 2:38 PM
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> > > Cc: Jkennison at clarku.edu
> > > Subject: [FRIAM] 1. Re: Rosen, Life Itself (Marcus G. Daniels)
> > >
> > > As I continue to struggle, page by page, with Rosen, I begin to
> realize
> > > that much of his LINGO is category theory LINGO.
> > >
> > > As I read Daniels and Riopella below, I wonder if much of THEIR
> lingo
> > > isnt
> > > category theory lingo.
> > >
> > > So, I am beginning to wonder, is it possible that Category Theory
> is
> > > one of
> > > those intellectual developments that has been roundly rejected by
> the
> > > mainstream, but whose language has crept into the mainstream to a
> very
> > > great degree?
> > >
> > > N
> > >
> > > Nicholas S. Thompson
> > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
> > > Clark University (nthompson at clarku.edu)
> > >
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