[FRIAM] words RE: words

[Nick Thompson]

Okay.

Given that my question about programming and emergence is a lifeless, flatulent piece of crap ... conceding ALL of that .. how would you breathe life into it?

Thanks, 

Nick 



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


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But that simply can't be true. The scout *does* know something ... lots of things, many of which are innate, for example binocular vision. When the scout asks "Why did THAT happen?", they are asking something about what they're seeing. When they ask "Why did it happen THEN?", they're asking something about the passage of time and the speed of which the thing they see changed.

To say their questions are completely uninformed makes an answer to your question impossible. It makes any explanation impossible because explanations always rely on a foundation of some current understanding ... even if you end up having to break some prior intuition/understanding in order to get to the larger understanding.

Sometimes answering by asking "What THAT are you talking about?" is a good way to teach them how to fish.

On 5/7/19 9:16 AM, Nick Thompson wrote:
>  this scout, whatever, don't know nuthin'.  All he knows is that he didn't expect THAT!  Not THEN!  


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