[FRIAM] Complexity Returns to the Mother Church (or v.v?).

[Nick Thompson]

Geez, Robert.  You aren’t going to actually REMEMBER anything I said at FRIAM.  I count on the Geriatric Curtain of Forgetfullness. 

 

His name was Donald Griffin <https://timikablalockdamr.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/animal-minds-by-donald-r-griffin.pdf> .  Many people will say that he ADVANCED ethology 50 years.  The bat work was good.  But he started showing up at ethology meetings telling us how to think about  animal consciousness, and that, on my account, as a behaviorist, was a VERY BAD THING.  

 

It was great to see you again.  Mostly because you are you, but partly, I suppose, because of your British education, you have the capacity to hold ideas lightly and rotate them in our view, and that is a great talent to have at the table at FRIAM. 

 

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-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Robert Holmes
Sent: Saturday, October 13, 2018 10:54 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Complexity Returns to the Mother Church (or v.v?).

 

Randall Munroe says this better than I ever could

 

PHYSICISTS <https://xkcd.com/793/> 

 

By the way Nick, you mentioned a physicist who set ethology back 50 years. Who was it?

 

On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 5:10 PM uǝlƃ ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com <mailto:gepropella at gmail.com> > wrote:

On 10/12/18 3:46 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> 5. ... From the strength of the triangle one can infer something about the parts that make it up, but from the parts themselves, lacking information about their arrangement, one cannot determine that the triangle will be strong.

UNLESS! The information about how such parts *can* be arranged is deducible from the parts, themselves.  E.g. regular vs. irregular tilings.

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☣ uǝlƃ

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