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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Oh. Gosh! Will somebody please explain the joke to me. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I get some of the joke. I mean the whole joke. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>n<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Nicholas Thompson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Clark University<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com"><span style='color:#0563C1'>ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Steve Smith<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 4, 2020 6:08 PM<br><b>To:</b> friam@redfish.com<br><b>Subject:</b> [FRIAM] the Snarking of the Bandersnatch<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p>Glen -<o:p></o:p></p><p>You have taken good humored sarcasm (Snark*) to "the next level" (another modern idiom I am just coming to recognize) here. It feels like you've captured FriAM-at-large pretty well here... or at least the arc of our discussions-of-late. Not only the discussions, but to some extent the "nut" of some of them. <o:p></o:p></p><p>Your spoof of an idea to ontologize the fruits of our discussions and the metaphorize them across domain-specific ontologies comes way too close to at least one holy grail of a project or two I've worked on (thus my references to a "Faceted Ontology". I'm not saying your snark is empty, nor that the holy grail I refer to was entirely unachievable, mostly just appreciating how well you nailed it here, and perhaps (en caricature?) captured some of what Nick has been wishing and hoping for... <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Carry On, <o:p></o:p></p><p> - Steve<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p><tt><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Ha! And a boon would be we can transform it arbitrarily onto any other domain-specific ontology. So, whatever is written about, say, evolutionary biology could be mapped ... [cough] </span></tt><tt><span style='font-size:24.0pt;color:#FF002A'>metaphored</span></tt><tt><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> ... into a paper about, say, </span></tt><span style='font-family:"URW Gothic",serif'>holography</span><tt><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>! If we can design a </span></tt><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'>GAN</span><tt><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> to well-fit the maps, then whatever "theory" we end up with will provide us with <b><i><u>the</u></i></b> explanation of </span></tt><span style='font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>consciousness</span><tt><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> and solve the hard problem! </span></tt><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Man this technology thing is cool. Whatever was I thinking. >8^D<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 6/4/20 4:19 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>I think there should be a XML-based ontology format to encode our <i>important</i> conversations as a formal system. And not mere CSS3, there should be a whole XSL pipeline to generate Nick’s book. Everyone <b>follow the rules</b> or your e-mails will not validate and <b>will be rejected</b> by the mail server!<o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre><span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif'>☣</span> uǝlƃ<o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>- .... . -..-. . ...- --- .-.. ..- - .. --- -. -..-. .-- .. .-.. .-.. -..-. -... . -..-. .-.. .. ...- . -..-. ... - .-. . .- -- . -..<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>un/subscribe <a href="http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com">http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>archives: <a href="http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/">http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>FRIAM-COMIC <a href="http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/">http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/</a> <o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>