[FRIAM] words RE: words

[Nick Thompson]

Oh, Glen, 

That "scout" was talking to the who-o-o-le list.

Answering a question with a question is the old psychologist's trick, a fair tactic when you think the respondent, like the slave boy, already contains the answer within him.  But this slave-boy, this scout, whatever, don't know nuthin'.  All he knows is that he didn't expect THAT!  Not THEN!  

I wish Lee would answer.  I took his point to be that you-guys (and you ==>are<== all guys) are so immersed in emergence (emerged in immersance?) that you have lost sight of it.  

Wolfram wrote the book on emergence, but he did not translate it for the defrocked English major.  

Glen, your manners are impeccable.  

Nick 

Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

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I know you directed the post to Dave. Obviously, you weren't talking to me. 8^) But I will again demonstrate my lack of manners and interrupt, anyway.

It's common to denigrate those who answer questions with questions. But my response to the scout would be: "Well, what did you EXPECT to happen?"

Give a man a fish ... yadda yadda.

On 5/5/19 10:53 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:
> So, imagine yourself talking to a group of boy (girl-) scouts.   You have just demonstrated to them the phenomenon of Cellular Automaton #30 (or whatever) bursting into seething dog vomit at iteration 10,601 (or whatever) (or bursting out of seething dog vomit into grand pyramids of pyramids, ad infinitum, what*/EVER!/*).  One of the scouts asks, “Professor Dave, why did that happen then?”  And once you have explained that to them, please explain to them how that explanation is not an adequate explanation of consciousness.

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