[FRIAM] Pondering...shoes and sweats of all things

[Prof David West]

Nick,

Silly me, but I have to ask — are you sure?

Why I ask: Culture (environment) is altered by actions (fads?) of
individual members and in turn alter the likelihood of adoption/mimicry
of the fad by other members of the culture. Direct bi-lateral
communication/copying of a behavior cannot account for 'global' change.
Example: one woman makes a clay pot. Neighbor might take note and make one as well. But one-to-one propagation is insufficient to account for entire villages and regions suddenly transforming into pot making cultures.
I know that you are speaking biologically and I am speaking
anthropologically - but I think there are parallels that should not be
excluded out of hand. Because I am ignorant in such matters I will not
point out that epigenetics might be a camel's nose in the tent.
I have posted two comments about heterarchy as I have encountered it in
my professional work. Absent some disambiguation of "struggles" not sure
how to contribute further.
davew



On Fri, Jan 4, 2019, at 8:14 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> Dave,


>  


> In the natural design perspectives, clothing styles are examples of
> “fads”, structures or behaviors that are matched to the preferences of
> fellow species members, not to the environment of the species.  The
> display structures in courtship are examples of such “fads.”>  


> Off to FRIAM.  Hoping to see you there, even tho I know that hope is
> forlorn.>  


> Still struggling with heterarchy.  What think you on that, Dave?


>  


> Nick . 


>  


> Nicholas S. Thompson


> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology


> Clark University


> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/


>  


> *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Prof
> David West *Sent:* Friday, January 04, 2019 6:52 AM *To:*
> friam at redfish.com *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Pondering...shoes and sweats
> of all things>  


> Nick's work on Natural Design would be an obvious possibility. Less in
> the paper he recently shared to the list than in the rest of the work
> (five papers I think). Some evil genius has coopted his ideas and
> learned to manipulate them.>  


> davew


>  


>  


>  


> On Thu, Jan 3, 2019, at 5:13 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:


>> Is this an experiment to see if we can identify some philosophical
>> topic latent in the topic of casual clothing?   How cycles of fashion
>> can be compressed using a memory-less optimized quantum time
>> evolution?   Trying to find something to be opinionated about here.
>> Failing.>>  


>> *From: *Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Gillian
>> Densmore <gil.densmore at gmail.com> *Reply-To: *The Friday Morning
>> Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com> *Date: *Thursday,
>> January 3, 2019 at 5:03 PM *To: *The Friday Morning Applied
>> Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com> *Subject: *[FRIAM]
>> Pondering...shoes and sweats of all things>>  


>> I am seriously curiuse how it is that Puma can make pretty good
>> regular seekers...for a bit cheeper than Nike.>>  


>> And who ever created the sweat pant. Was genius! comfortable can look
>> great. and doesn't blow up ones budget.>> ============================================================


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