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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=quotation>While there is quite a bit of prodding that I owe you regarding what I read as ambiguity about universality and generality among the pragmatists*, the bigger fish to fry is that you are not so likely to accept the possibility (reality?) of the singular. With all of the forces that contributors to this forum supply, what is a poor boy to do?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Indeed! I ask myself that question every day?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Nick Thompson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>ThompNickSon2@gmail.com<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>-----Original Message-----<br>From: Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> On Behalf Of jon zingale<br>Sent: Sunday, May 9, 2021 1:58 PM<br>To: friam@redfish.com<br>Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Morphogenisis</p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Please understand the context for my writing here: while waiting with bated breath for EricS's response to my prodding[0], I am working to better understand the larger discussion and to read EricS's paper[1].<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Lately, I am working to extend grace to others in their attempts to describe the world. For instance, when Chemero offers a dynamical systems alternative to computation, I recognize that my knee jerks are perhaps simply my own. He may mean something that I have yet to understand and that projecting my own sense that dynamical systems are *just* systems of differential (or difference) equations will cause a break from grace and that I will lose an opportunity. Similarly, I am working to understand Roger's blogger in a context that reconciles Chemero and Valiant (and why shouldn't I? Roger posted his post in response to my own). All the while, I hope to continue to allow the insights offered by Deleuze[2] to nourish these connections and to help me make sense of any emergent meaning.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Oh well, in the meantime, back to Haldane and 150 years of attempts to characterize fitness, back to evolutions involving ideal functions that specify proteins and their relations, back to wondering how the notion of functor could help to clarify that we are not simply concerned with transitions between sets, but some hopefully specifiable excess of meaning.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>[0] <a href="http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/no-subject-td7601231.html#a7601880"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/no-subject-td7601231.html#a7601880</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>[1] And yes, I have many other questions there not applicable to this thread as of yet. For instance, how is a hypergraph different than a topology? Are hypergraphs also generalizations of topologies?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>[2] For instance, his insights into the differences between generality and universality, and their duals(?), particularity and singularity.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>While there is quite a bit of prodding that I owe you regarding what I read as ambiguity about universality and generality among the pragmaticists, the bigger fish to fry is that you are not so likely to accept the possibility (reality?) of the singular. With all of the forces that contributors to this forum supply, what is a poor boy to do?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>--<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Sent from: <a href="http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe <a href="http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>FRIAM-COMIC <a href="http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>archives: <a href="http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>