<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Yeah, on one hand (they are) guilty as charged.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On the other hand, nah, only mathematicians name things in gzip so that the names are maximally compressed. (By which I mean, referring to every theorem by the name of whoever proved it, so you have not a clue what it is about.) I wish I could bring to mind some lines in textbooks from my freshman or sophomore algebra classes, where at the end of a long and completely uninterpretable sentence, the author wrapped with “to which we apply a theorem of Darbou.” My friends and I, all getting bombed out of existence by the course, hit that line and shook our heads in unison. Laughing in the way that late at night ends up in crying. While I can’t remember what the rest of the topic was, I can still summon the feeling of hopelessness as if it were yesterday. (It may have been yesterday; what was I trying to read that day?….)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In that respect, I am fine with “flavor SU(3) and color SU(3)”, and do not have trouble remembering which is which.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Also, surely superstrings aren’t as cynical and Machiavellian as you suggest, right? There was a symmetry that was encompassing enough that it applied in parallel across all the other symmetries known at the time, and so they called it supersymmetry. In a Germanic language that doesn’t seem evil. When applied to gravity it wound up as super-gravity (not that it was better). I guess, like teenagers say when explaining to their parents, one thing led to another, and now I really need to get to a clinic.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I do wish you had been Dawkins’s publisher, though. _That_ would have been a title.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">EricS</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 29, 2020, at 5:07 PM, Eric Charles <<a href="mailto:eric.phillip.charles@gmail.com" class="">eric.phillip.charles@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div dir="auto" class="">I agree with everything said in there email focusing on:<div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><br class=""></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div class=""><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class=""><font color="#2196f3" class="">And I also think you are right that the namers meant the names to carry weight. (Though I also think most thought is a bit hurried and careless, and gives itself more credit than is earned.)</font></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><div dir="auto" class=""><span style="background-color:rgb(239,154,154)" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">However, as I am fond of saying: <u class=""><b class="">It's worse than that.</b></u></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">They aren't just picking the names to carry weight, the are picking the names exactly to try to gain traction off of how sexy it sounds, even when they know they know that they would deny all the sexy implications if pressed. And it doesn't bother them that anyone hearing the term will think the phenomenon is sexier than it actually is, because that is a feature, not a bug. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is a reason Dawkins titled his book "The Selfish Gene" rather than "Things that stay around are things that stayed around."</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There is a reason people called it "superstring theory" instead of "High-dimensional math you will never understand and which we might never be able to test." </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It wasn't JUST about verbal expedience or rushed thinking. If you wanted expedience you would just label it Theory Option 78, or TO78 if you wanted it even shorter. You could do that, sure, but it would never get you a mention on Freakonomics radio. </div><div dir="auto" class=""><br style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:12.8px" class=""></div></div></div></div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 29, 2020, 1:32 PM David Eric Smith <<a href="mailto:desmith@santafe.edu" target="_blank" class="">desmith@santafe.edu</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class="">I’m actually quite on board with your wish to make these questions more interesting than they may have started out, Nick.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">And I also think you are right that the namers meant the names to carry weight. (Though I also think most thought is a bit hurried and careless, and gives itself more credit than is earned.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The interesting struggle will be that the original calculation was in a way rather small, compared to the metaphor that many hope can be spun from it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Or perhaps said another way, maybe many of these things that have weight to compel as we experience them in life, are pointers to little mechanics below the surface that, in its own terms, is a small thing.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I know that in each paper I write, I imagine getting at a big idea, and realize that the most I have done is a small calculation. So there is a foot in each boat….</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Eric</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 29, 2020, at 1:20 PM, <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> <<a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class=""><div class=""><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" class=""><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal">Sorry everybody. I seem to be out of my depth in many pools at once. <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"> I really like Eric’s analysis. <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div><div class="MsoNormal">I still want to protest abit. I think the dynamic relation between the physical concept and the physicist’s humanistic metaphor is much more interesting than this analysis would suggest. Physicists use those metaphors for a reasons, cognitive and communicatory. And humanists are right to explore their implications. Otherwise, it would be fair for the humanist to turn to the physicist and say, “Shut up and calculate.”<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div><div class="MsoNormal">The paradox of development (AKA epigenisis) is that there are all sorts of futures that can be known pretty precisely about a developing individual yet they are totally unknown to the individual that is developing. It has to do with our discussion of inten<b class=""><i class="">S</i></b>ion, a few months back. <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div><div class="MsoNormal">It may also be time for one of you to be delegated to “elder” me, in the quaker tradition. “Now, Nick, ….”<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div><div class="MsoNormal">N .<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div><div class="MsoNormal">N<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal">Nicholas Thompson<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div><div class="MsoNormal">Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div><div class="MsoNormal">Clark University<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class=""><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" class="">ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</span></a><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwordpress.clarku.edu%2fnthompson%2f&c=E,1,8pikIqjsWmNuBHfzE3VVLQF4_vkvnGX1oPfmWg4qJVbO9ts2bygQUBET758DUPmA4dH0McR2MMXhK_cL-slNT6tfSaWx6GP41uIIowPT-1XJk62VKA,,&typo=1" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class=""><span style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" class="">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</span></a><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div><div class=""><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in" class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><b class="">From:</b> Friam <<a href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">friam-bounces@redfish.com</a>> <b class="">On Behalf Of </b>David Eric Smith<br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b> Thursday, October 29, 2020 10:00 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">friam@redfish.com</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] Getting You Libertarians' Goats<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div><div class="MsoNormal">I want to somehow say sigh and sigh on this thread.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal">It comes somehow straight out of Monty Python (Blessed are the cheesemakers….)<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal">1. Some physicists figure out how to do a calculation, showing that some parts can go dynamically into an organized state, appealing to a combination of their own shapes and laws of large numbers for events that happen, and they don’t need to have the organized form imposed by any outside boundary conditions beyond the very low-level rules for how the events are sampled. They already knew this happens in equilibrium, because that is how anything freezes. But here they are seeing it in a dynamical context, where the ordered form happens to be more ordered than the states they could produce from somehow-similar components in equilibrium.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal">2. Physicsts, like everyone, are usually impatient and don’t want to have to recite the whole operational meaning of something every time they want to refer to it in the course of saying something else.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal">3. So the physicists come up with a tag. It should be sort of evocative, sort of catchy, and easy to remember. Aha! “Self-organization”, to keep in mind that the organization is resulting from low-level local features, and not from the boundary conditions imposed on the system beyond that local stuff.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal">4. Nick encounters the term. It happens to contain two words about which he cares very very much, so to him they are not mere hackage generated by some physicists, but freighted with meaning.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal">5. Nick starts a thread: Which self? Is it the same self before and after? Is “organized” here a transitive or an intransitive verb? If transitive, what is the object? Can the same referent be both object and subject of a transitive verb? Does that make the verb reflexive? What are the implications for monists? For dualists?<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal">6. Friam is willing to engage.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal">7. I write a long tedious email, trying to remind the humanists that the most important character trait of physicists is impatience. <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal">Eric<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><br class=""><br class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div><blockquote style="margin-top:5pt;margin-bottom:5pt" type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal">On Oct 29, 2020, at 10:03 AM, Prof David West <<a href="mailto:profwest@fastmail.fm" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">profwest@fastmail.fm</a>> wrote:<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></div><div class=""><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">Nick,<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><i class=""><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">" I am always troubled by the notion of "self-assembly" since the self that is</span></i><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><i class=""><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">assembling is never, by definition, the self that is assembled."</span></i><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">By what definition? Your monist view that the self lacks ontological status in the first place?<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">davew<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">On Wed, Oct 28, 2020, at 5:48 PM, <a href="mailto:thompnickson2@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">thompnickson2@gmail.com</a><span class=""> </span>wrote:<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> Jon,<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> Is a steam governor a case of downward causation?<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> This question will reveal, no doubt, that I don't understand your previous<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> answer, but perhaps others will explain it to me. <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> I am always troubled by the notion of "self-assembly" since the self that is<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> assembling is never, by definition, the self that is assembled. <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> Perhaps I am getting tangled up in words again. <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> n<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> Nicholas Thompson<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> Clark University<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> <a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</a><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> <a href="https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwordpress.clarku.edu%2fnthompson%2f&c=E,1,aryOhfVU48KQtN6xZTrA9DuKF6rEe-ZppSYOdQn_1Py6Cpgt586u2buLg3DjT-c0qFESZFBn3sJm21uO2hXWV9yFGAeZn5lBmiyLY_mGvBNki6JGqZr5Vawr0Cc,&typo=1" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</a><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> -----Original Message-----<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> From: Friam <<a href="mailto:friam-bounces@redfish.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">friam-bounces@redfish.com</a>> On Behalf Of jon zingale<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 2:01 PM<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> To: <a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank" class="">friam@redfish.com</a><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Getting You Libertarians' Goats<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> Nick,<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> Let's say I have a language designed to work with sticks, where for<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> instance, it makes sense to name certain relations *Triangle*. Additionally,<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> let's assume that the language is detailed enough to include less obvious<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> relations such as those which relate sticks to trees to soil and water.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> Would it be cheap to narrowly define *downward causation* as the<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> manipulation of the world in accordance with this language to produce new<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> sticks?<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> Consider as another example when one manipulates charge in bulk using analog<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> filters. Here, a circuit designer may not need to know about spin or<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> superposition or a lot of other details about the universe. In fact, the<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> designer may not know how to write a "mid-frequency ranged filter" if they<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div></div><div class=""><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" class="">> were only given a quantum mechanical view of the world. 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