[FRIAM] Unmediated perception - sheldrake

[Nick Thompson]

"all about entertainment"

That seems an over-aggressive reduction to me.  Like "all action is self-interested" or "all natural selection is at the genetic level".  

Perhaps the largest personality difference I can think of among people concerns what entertains them.  I am entertained by rhetoric.  Other people think it's boring.  So, there you have it.  

All the best,

Nick 

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


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From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels
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My own instinct is that the `serious' communication between people, factored from rhetoric or not, is mostly about entertainment.   It's code that matters.

On 9/17/19, 1:22 PM, "Friam on behalf of Nick Thompson" <friam-bounces at redfish.com on behalf of nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote:

    Sorry.  I thought the name of my new company would be obvious: 
    
    "Rhetor Rooter"
    
    I suppose it also could be the name of a person who cheers on rhetoricians. 
    
    Nick
    
    
    
    Nicholas S. Thompson
    Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
    Clark University
    http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
    
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Friam [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels
    Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 3:03 PM
    To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
    Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Unmediated perception - sheldrake
    
    This instinct taken to an extreme might explain how someone would end-up at a Trump rally and not an Obama rally.
    Fear of those that can tell a complex and convincing story and cut corners in hard-to-detect ways.   Individuals having such fear might be more at ease with someone that does not have these skills.   Someone that makes them feel relatively good about themselves.
    
    On 9/17/19, 10:06 AM, "Friam on behalf of uǝlƃ ☣" <friam-bounces at redfish.com on behalf of gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
    
        Ha! "Rhetor". It's fantastic how you assembled those words so that "rhetor" seems so distasteful. I'm going to start using "rhetor" as a username for those throwaway logins I'm always having to create.
        
        On 9/17/19 9:46 AM, Jon Zingale wrote:
        > My favorite and perhaps most  disillusioning was a
        > talk he gave at Google, where with maybe six people
        > in the room, I had the privilege to observe what a
        > rhetor he was capable of being. Now, I almost
        > never think about him or his theory.
        
        
        -- 
        ☣ uǝlƃ
        
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