<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
span.EmailStyle21
{mso-style-type:personal-reply;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;
color:windowtext;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Roger, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I apologize for a achingly stupid first response to this post. My bad. I am so overwhelmed these days I am warding off interesting things to read. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>As penance, I read the whole thing, and, of course, am happy with most of it. . I do wish Wilson would make clear how group traits of one generation are inherited by the next generation of GROUPS. <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/288818273_Shifting_the_natural_selection_metaphor_to_the_group_level">See Link</a> He actually confuses his selection mechanism for his inheritance mechanism. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>To me, the most interesting line in the essay was <b><i>“</i></b><b><i>My characters became as real to me as real people—and why not, since real people exist only as avatars in our minds?</i></b><b><i>”</i></b> This connected to me two thoughts that have remained separate for me until now. It connected my interest in Peirce’s monism with my interest in the writing process. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Roger, you should know that I think of your and your “layers in the atmosphere don’t mix!” every time I look at a satellite photo and see them layers of clouds sliding over each other easy as grease. An elephant – particularly an old elephant – never forgets. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>All the best, <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nick <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Nick Thompson<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><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>Roger Critchlow<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 29, 2021 8:53 PM<br><b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <Friam@redfish.com><br><b>Subject:</b> [FRIAM] "I have come to bury Ayn Rand"<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://nautil.us/issue/98/mind/i-have-come-to-bury-ayn-rand">https://nautil.us/issue/98/mind/i-have-come-to-bury-ayn-rand</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>This must be apropos some thread around here.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>-- rec --<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>