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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Dave,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>In the natural design perspectives, clothing styles are examples of “fads”, structures or behaviors that are matched to the preferences of fellow species members, not to the environment of the species. The display structures in courtship are examples of such “fads.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Off to FRIAM. Hoping to see you there, even tho I know that hope is forlorn. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Still struggling with heterarchy. What think you on that, Dave? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Nick . <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Nicholas S. Thompson<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Clark University<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> Friam [mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Prof David West<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 04, 2019 6:52 AM<br><b>To:</b> friam@redfish.com<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] Pondering...shoes and sweats of all things<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Nick's work on Natural Design would be an obvious possibility. Less in the paper he recently shared to the list than in the rest of the work (five papers I think). Some evil genius has coopted his ideas and learned to manipulate them.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>davew<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, Jan 3, 2019, at 5:13 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=size><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Is this an experiment to see if we can identify some philosophical topic latent in the topic of casual clothing? How cycles of fashion can be compressed using a memory-less optimized quantum time evolution? Trying to find something to be opinionated about here. Failing.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=size><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;border-right-color:currentcolor;border-bottom-color:currentcolor;border-left-color:currentcolor;border-image-outset:0;border-image-repeat:stretch;border-image-slice:100%;border-image-source:none;border-image-width:1'><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=size><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>From: </span></b></span><span class=size><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Friam <<a href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com">friam-bounces@redfish.com</a>> on behalf of Gillian Densmore <<a href="mailto:gil.densmore@gmail.com">gil.densmore@gmail.com</a>></span></span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><br><span class=size><b>Reply-To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com">friam@redfish.com</a>></span><br><span class=size><b>Date: </b>Thursday, January 3, 2019 at 5:03 PM</span><br><span class=size><b>To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com">friam@redfish.com</a>></span><br><span class=size><b>Subject: </b>[FRIAM] Pondering...shoes and sweats of all things</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=size><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=size><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>I am seriously curiuse how it is that Puma can make pretty good regular seekers...for a bit cheeper than Nike.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=size><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span class=size><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>And who ever created the sweat pant. Was genius! comfortable can look great. and doesn't blow up ones budget.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>============================================================<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>to unsubscribe <a href="http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com"><span style='color:#0563C1'>http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>archives back to 2003: <a href="http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>FRIAM-COMIC <a href="http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/</span></a> by Dr. Strangelove<o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>