[FRIAM] detritus from vFRIAM

[Steve Smith]

Exhibit A: Life is that which wills to live /amongst that which wills to
live ..../

Exhibit B: Symmetry Breaking in Vortices (and other "systems")

Exhibit C:  Donald Trump and his close affiliates: V our extended system
of "manic hypercapitalism"

On 7/3/20 1:12 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
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> In other words, there is some sense in which the notion of
> Self-serving Action is incoherent.
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> Nicholas Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
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> Clark University
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> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com <mailto:ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com>
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> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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> *From:* thompnickson2 at gmail.com <thompnickson2 at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, July 3, 2020 1:07 PM
> *To:* 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
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> *Subject:* detritus from vFRIAM
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> I tried to post this on the vFRIAM chat, but wouldn’t “take”, so I am
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> “Don't do this now, but …. as a favor to me, could you-guys devote
> some of your shaving time this week to the proposition: "No system
> ever acts on its own behalf."  My intuition is that whenever we
> investigate a system that appears to act in its own behalf, we will
> find that it is pursuing a goal that is short of the interest of the
> whole, but which will produce benefits to the whole because of some
> property of the world in which it acts.  I would love to hear a
> discussion among people trying to design _a system that acts on its
> own behalf_. Can someone come up with a simple example of such a
> system.” 
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> I grant you that the question is not clear.
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> Thanks,
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> Nick
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> Nicholas Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
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> Clark University
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> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com <mailto:ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com>
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> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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