[FRIAM] flattening -isms

[Steven A Smith]

My ratiocination:

    "There are two kinds of people.  Those who believe there are an
irrational number of types of things, and those who don't."


> Channeling Hywel, I hope accurately: There is no irrational number of
> things of any type in the Universe

>
> -----------------------------------
> Frank Wimberly
>
> My memoir:
> https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly
>
> My scientific publications:
> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2
>
> Phone (505) 670-9918
>
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2019, 7:52 AM glen∈ℂ <gepropella at gmail.com
> <mailto:gepropella at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Ha! You raise two excellent points:
>
>     1) Is "a beer" a portion of a given volume or a massive noun? 
>     https://youtu.be/cf0y2pVw6Tk Or perhaps it refers to different
>     batches, distinguished by the process (ingredients, mash, boil,
>     distribution)? But what if you're a macro brewery and your quality
>     control is so tight that there's almost 0 difference between batches?
>
>     2) Would a monist object to the idea that we could distinguish a
>     1.001 pluralist from a 1001 pluralist? After all the only
>     difference between having 1001 types of thing and 1.001 types of
>     thing is scaling. So, the real difference would be spectral
>     pluralist vs. continuum pluralist. So, we'd need to find a
>     pluralist who thought there were an irrational number of thing types.
>
>     This episode was rather nice: "Does Life Need a Multiverse to
>     Exist?" <https://youtu.be/YmOVoIpaPrc?t=404> Up to that point,
>     he's relying on an intuitive orthogonality between the forces and
>     constants ... a typical misunderstanding of the "fine-tuning"
>     argument. He goes on (from the time I included in the URL) to hint
>     at the unified, *relational* sense of the argument. And he
>     mentions it specifically later, I think in talking about how
>     string theory tries to generate the different properties from the
>     One True Substance. 8^)
>
>     On 11/15/19 12:31 PM, Prof David West wrote:
>     > I just bought a book for a Dutch friend - 1001 Beers.
>
>     ============================================================
>     FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
>     Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
>     to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
>     archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
>     FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
>
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
> archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/attachments/20191117/a1894d71/attachment.html>