[FRIAM] Everything she knows...

[Frank Wimberly]

Maybe that's why the behavior of Trump supporters is incomprehensible to
Biden supporters.

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On Wed, Apr 17, 2019, 2:42 PM Jochen Fromm <jofr at cas-group.net> wrote:

> We have a kind of tunnelling in social systems for startups: they borrow
> money which they don't have from venture capital companies and banks, and
> this allows them to "tunnel" through unprofitable times.
>
> About the dynamics of social genes: I think how the "secret" social genes
> control their organism is in fact quite difficult to describe. When the
> priest reads a certain part of the social DNA the audience immediately
> hears it, but if and when the rules have a concrete effect can not be
> predicted. It can be the next day or the next week or never at all.
>
> We know that emotions control bodies of biological organisms by increasing
> the readiness for actions. Nico Frijda describes it in his book "The
> emotions". Social genes work similar, they increase the readiness for
> actions, i.e. the likelihood that the members of the group behave in a
> certain way. It is is possible that some kind of probability theory can be
> used to describe it mathematically.
>
> -Jochen
>
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com>
> Date: 4/16/19 20:38 (GMT+01:00)
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
>
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Everything she knows...
>
> With quantum annealer, one can make the distinction between logical qubits
> and physical qubits.   Logical qubits can be formed from physical qubits by
> connecting physical qubits by strong pairwise ferromagnetic couplings.  The
> low energy state of a system thus (in principle) has physical qubits that
> are members of the logical qubit in the same state.   That’s all fine an
> good for ensuring a strong energy contrast between two logical values – and
> to be resistant to noise.   However, the cost of that is that for that
> logical qubit to participate in tunneling means that the whole set of
> physical qubits need to tunnel.   Think of a sci-fi story with a gateway to
> another world.   You are holding hands with your family, and your father
> steps through the Stargate.   He’s holding on to your mom’s hand but the
> chain be broken temporarily (and energy can fluctuate) as he is now in a
> different land.   Then she must be pulled and then your siblings.    These
> social genes make me think of dynamics like this.   The rate that progress
> can occur toward the global optimal is diminished given an the insistence
> of maintaining group coherence.
>
>
>
> *From: *Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Jochen Fromm <
> jofr at cas-group.net>
> *Reply-To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Date: *Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at 12:13 PM
> *To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [FRIAM] Everything she knows...
>
>
>
> I would say any human individual serves multiple genes at once. First the
> normal, biological genes. The selfish genes as Dawkins called them. Then
> the other, hidden genes. I have written a book about it named "The secret
> genes" which I'm publishing now, this month. It is about the secret genes
> in the holy books of the big religions. We know them all as commandments,
> but normally we don't recognize them as what they are - cultural genes
> which create social lifeforms. Religious organizations are social lifeforms
> created by genes which are expressed in church services. Thus the temples
> from ancient civilizations are fossil remains of ancient lifeforms.
> Fascinating, isn't it? I try to explain it in more detail in the book.
>
>
>
> Since the content of the book is so explosive, I have decided to publish
> it in German first, to avoid some form of apocalypse like the collapse of
> civilization or Notre Dame burning down. But since nobody will read it
> anyway and Notre Dame has already burnt down there is no reason why it
> shouldn't be published in English. It doesn't really matter. If anyone will
> cause an apocalypse it is probably president Trump (nuclear, climate, or
> otherwise).
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jochen
>
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> -------- Original message --------
>
> From: glen∈ℂ <gepropella at gmail.com>
>
> Date: 4/16/19 16:47 (GMT+01:00)
>
> To: friam at redfish.com
>
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Everything she knows...
>
>
>
> Well, there are at least 2 ways I disagree:
>
> 1) Any ecological individual serves multiple bodies at once, and
> 2) Any one can serve different bodies at different moments.
>
> That we serve multiples presents a difference in degree so that there's a
> threshold for the number of bodies one serves.  Those that serve many many
> purposes (religions, saints, jobs, whatever) may *seem* as if they serve
> nobody.  Similarly, those of us who switch our affiliations on a
> minute-by-minute basis, may *seem* not to serve any one body.  So, if your
> gist is that those who *seem* to not serve somebody are really serving many
> bodies or rapidly switching affiliations, then I agree.  But if you insist
> on an artificial unification, then I disagree.
>
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