[FRIAM] query and observation

[Gary Schiltz]

FRIAM is such a strange beast. At times full of philosophical
discourse that flies far above my head, other times full of
irreverent inanities that defy categorization, and occasionally even with
something to do with complexity. And then the periodic deafening silence
that makes me realize just how much I would miss it if it were to go away.
Long live FRIAM.

On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 10:45 AM Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> Frank, Dave,
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> Well I AM tied up with relocation issues, so haven’t been paying close
> attention, but …
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> I just did a search in my inbox and there is nothing from FRIAM from 24
> August on.
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>
>
> I have always understood that the Friam-Owner. is like the wine pourer at
> a classical “symposium”,  more or less watering the wine to maintain the
> flow and quality of the conversation.  He won’t admit to it of course, but
> every once in a while He “shuts me off” from friam when He thinks I have
> become too … agitated?  I assume He is also gently modulating your
> contributions in the same way, as a beneficent god should.  I don’t know
> how He gets the time to do it, but nothing else could possibly explain the
> fact that sometimes our emails just go missing for a while.  So, I didn’t
> get alarmed when I stopped receiving FRIAM correspondence in late August.
> I just assumed that the All Powerful Friam-Owner was giving me a rest.
>
>
>
> Thank you APF-O.  We love you and worship you.
>
>
>
> Nick
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> Ps.  Let me know if you don’t get this message.  (};-\)
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> 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 *Frank
> Wimberly
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 12, 2019 8:02 AM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
> friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] query and observation
>
>
>
> Dave,
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> The Friam list remains as you can see but is sort of a trickle.  I posted
> a couple of items about the Cooper/Colbert interview and something I can't
> remember but they weren't up to the high intellectual standard which
> engages you, Glen, Marcus, Nick, et al.  Glen did comment insightfully.
> Nick will be back in Santa Fe soon; maybe the change in location will
> stimulate him.
>
>
>
> Frank
>
> -----------------------------------
> Frank Wimberly
>
> My memoir:
> https://www.amazon.com/author/frankwimberly
>
> My scientific publications:
> https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Frank_Wimberly2
>
> Phone (505) 670-9918
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>
>
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2019, 12:42 AM Prof David West <profwest at fastmail.fm>
> wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> Traffic on the FRIAM list seems to have ground to a halt, from my
> reception point in Amsterdam - i.e. I have seen nothing for some time. Not
> in spam filter, so question is has the list trickled to a stop or just not
> making it across the Atlantic.?
>
> Observation: an interesting coincidence arising from reading a new book,
> The Case Against Reality, How evolution hid the truth from our eyes, by
> Donald D. Hoffman, professor of cognitive science at UC Irvine. Main thesis
> is that what we perceive is but a constructed, via evolution,  "interface"
> and not a veridical perception of "Reality."
>
> Not a new idea but the evolution / survival / fittest being the ones that
> see the optimal interface instead of what is behind the interface is
> interesting.
>
> Coincidence comes from simultaneously rereading Heidegger and Gadamer, and
> even some Peirce,  and seeing apparent parallels between "interface,:
> "interpretation," and "experience."  Feels like a lot of Nick's Monism
> convictions might be illuminated by looking at these works in juxtaposition.
>
> dave west
>
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