[FRIAM] sometimes an onion is just an onion...

[glen ☣]

It is nice to see another person admit to their premature registration!  Thanks.  I brought up an onion as an example of a thing that, when analyzed with levels produces a different result than when analyzed with layers.

You have to admit that slicing an onion produces different results than prying off its layers one by one.  Rigth?

On 06/12/2017 10:01 AM, Steven A Smith wrote:
> I always appreciate your corrections.  You are naturally the only one who really knows what you meant when you brought it up.  I thought I remembered that you invoked the onion and it's layers to try to explain your distinction between levels and layers and the utility of the same in the discussion of Complexity Science.
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> I know how to slice onions with a knife, I've even been known to crush small ones like a garlic clove,  and have even run them through a blender for various culinary purposes, but in this discussion, I can't think why we would have been talking about an onion if not as the source domain for a metaphor.   Why were we talking about an onion?  I remember a discursion into or near the embryological implications of how onions form their layers?

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☣ glen