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<p>Some "days" in the FriAmVerse are "Just Packed"... and this week
is one of them!</p>
<p>I had forgotten about Chris's work with Ralph... and neglected to
mention the first time I encountered him when he penned an Escher
Ruboff for the 1985? "Evolution Games and Learning"
announcements/T-Shirt/Agenda at LANL. I had my T-shirt for
decades but it slipped away sometime in the last 20 years. It
was the classic Escher "hand drawing hand" but with one hand a
*robotic* one.<br>
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<p align="left">The *last* time I actually saw this image was
sitting at el Parasol in Pojoaque when it appeared on a tall,
lean, blond nordic young man. He was the spitting image of Steen
Rasmussen ( who attended the Evolution, Games, Learning workshop
as well). Of course it was his (now 20ish) son Leif who I hadn't
seen since he was 12! We chatted briefly but I didn't get a
picture (it was surely before cell-phone cameras... maybe
2002?)... I saw Steen 3 years ago in Copenhagen on my way back
from Merle's gig in Stockholm. <br>
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<p align="left">Thanks for more Landau links... the Cuban thing was
very... "very"...</p>
<p align="left">- Steve<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/14/22 8:15 PM, Stephen Guerin
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><b><font color="#3d85c6">On
Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 3:45 PM Steve Smith <<a
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<p><b><font color="#3d85c6">THE <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Abraham_(mathematician)"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Ralph
Abraham</a>? Or the OTHER <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Abraham_(politician)"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Ralph
Abraham</a>? Or Yet Another... ?</font></b></p>
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<div>Yes, the first :-) </div>
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<div><b><font color="#3d85c6">On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 3:45 PM
Steve Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com"
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<p><b><font color="#3d85c6">The <a
href="https://www.sheldrake.org/videos/trialogues-at-the-edge-of-the-millennium"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Trialogues</a>
comes to mind... I didn't realize how young McKenna
was when he passed just a few years later. I still
can't get past most of Sheldrake's
hyperbolic-woo-pseudoscientific framing, and do
wonder at how Abraham sorts all that out
internally. It isn't surprising to find a pure
Maths guy engaged in very mystical thinking, no
fundamental contradictions required I don't think.</font></b><br>
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<div>Ralph credited some high-dimensional math insights to
hallucinatory experiences with DMT - an interest shared with
McKenna. As you know my interest in <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_interpretation"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Transactional
Intepretation of QM</a> with "advanced" reverse-time waves
"handshaking" time-forward "retarded" waves, Sheldrake's
morphic resonance fields aren't too many nodes of crazy away
from me - though, I prefer the duality of woo-oow science
:-)<br>
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<div><b><font color="#3d85c6">On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 3:45 PM
Steve Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com"
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<p><b><font color="#3d85c6">I don't think I've ever met
Ralph and I could never quite suss out how much
influence he had directly (certainly indirectly?) on
Shaw/Farmer/Packard/Crutchfield's "Chaos Cabal"...
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<div>UCSC Faculty Bill Burke and Ralph were supporters of the
Cabal as they worked on their PhDs with some shared pub
credits. Rob refers to Burke as the Godfather to the group.
(mentioned in the Gleick's chapter on Santa Cruz that you
linked to).<br>
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Last time I saw Ralph in Santa Fe, I asked him about the
group and that Rob was with us at SFx. He said "Rob was the
smartest one" - high praise given the other three :-)<br>
<br>
Full disclosure: I once slept with Ralph's brother, Fred,
director of the<a href="http://www.blueberry-brain.org/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"> Blueberry
institute</a>. They were out of hotel rooms at the SCTPLS
2002 Portland conference, and Fred asked to bunk with me :-)</div>
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<div><font color="#3d85c6"><b>On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 3:45 PM
Steve Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com"
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<p><font color="#3d85c6"><b>Does anyone know how to find
Julia Landau's strange documentary tangenting "<a
href="https://vimeo.com/129239092" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">Strange Attractors</a>"? </b></font></p>
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<div>Such a cool project.You can see it trying to <a
href="http://reelchanges.org/projects/show/ef3718b0-4176-012b-7345-005056c00008/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">get off the ground
in 2008.</a> I emailed Rob in 2013 to find out status and
he said Julia was still looking for funding to complete.
Beyond the trailer, did you notice:<br>
<a href="https://vimeo.com/344238322" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">Clip 1 Intro</a><br>
<a href="https://vimeo.com/344238191" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">Clip 2 - Imagining Rob, Meeting
Howard</a></div>
<div><a href="https://vimeo.com/344238021" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">Clip 3 - Finding Rob in Chaos
Theory</a></div>
<div><a href="https://vimeo.com/136946323" target="_blank"
moz-do-not-send="true">Finding Rob in the Chaos </a><br>
<br>
I ran into Rob in Honolulu in 2017 - I asked him about it
again and still the same status.<br>
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BTW, check out the other couple of clips on Julia's Vimeo. I
found her father's "<a href="https://vimeo.com/125292604"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">will the real
terrorist standup</a>" somewhere online about the Cuban
Five. When I was in Havana with Tom Johnson for ABM
Workshops he helped organize, I learned more about the Cuban
Five and for a couple years followed all news stories and
histories I could find on <a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Posada_Carriles"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Posada_Carriles</a>
and Americam-sponsored terrorism in Cuba. Pretty f&#ked
up.</div>
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<div><b><font color="#3d85c6">On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 3:45 PM
Steve Smith <<a href="mailto:sasmyth@swcp.com"
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<p> <b><font color="#3d85c6"><a
href="https://aip.scitation.org/doi/pdf/10.1063/1.4822680"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Gleick's
book</a> was the first time I realized that Doyne
and Norm came from Silver City, and then I
discovered that my sister with to Kindergarten with
Norm's brother Vance... Rob used to hang out at
SFx from time to time and his brother Chris would
drop through and talk about his Haptek-sponsored
"chatterbot"/avatar/PeoplePutty work: <a
href="https://aidreams.co.uk/forum/haptek/chris-shaw-talk-at-chatbots-3-2/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://aidreams.co.uk/forum/haptek/chris-shaw-talk-at-chatbots-3-2/</a>
which was pretty advanced, considering what we are
getting excited about with deepfakes/AI-art these
days. I knew Haptek when it formed originally to
develop haptic hardware interfaces for VR a decade
earlier... </font></b></p>
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<div>Cool, hadn't seen Chris's chatbot video. And in addition
to illustrating Rob's papers and books, I think you know
about Chris and Ralph Abrham's collaboration on the four
volume classic <a
href="https://www.amazon.com/Dynamics-Geometry-Behavior-Ralph-Abraham/dp/0201567172"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Dynamics: Geometry
of Behavior</a> with Chris providing beautiful technical
illustrations of attractors and dynamical flow fields.<br>
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<div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">What did
everyone think about this last hearing? I watched
it with Ralph Abraham, whom some of you might know
of. He is visiting me for a week here in Santa Fe
and had some interesting perspectives on our
present politics.</div>
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<div style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif">Of course
Ralph and I are also having fun conversations about
the ever-present and unknowable electromagnetic
field. Life is good, despite the possibility that I
am but a hologram in a random universe heading down
a Black Hole. </div>
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at 10:56 AM Frank Wimberly <<a
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<div dir="ltr">Several people, including me, want to
watch the hearing. When I left Dave West and Jon
Z were the only ones there.</div>
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