[FRIAM] At the limits of thought
Gillian Densmore
gil.densmore at gmail.com
Mon Apr 27 21:29:17 EDT 2020
Twitch is what icall a streaming service
it's also what I see when a friam is now all POTUS, the Covid19 Cluster,
and then someone sends it into the mirror universe (Hi Glen!)
So to make copypast bingo simple
POTUS is a jerk because POTUS Said
OH *@*! COVID19 it's been 5 nanoseconds!
Now when you say (person place or thing). What is about that person place
or thing ness that makes it...it
Saright? Saright!
On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 5:05 PM Frank Wimberly <wimberly3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Academia does something like that. "You have [so many] mentions. To see
> your mentions come a full member"
> i.e. send money. I think mentions is slightly more general than
> citations. They might mention your name without citing a paper?
>
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 4:58 PM uǝlƃ ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Excellent! Such credit tracking is something I've always wished I were
>> competent at. I look at all these publications of people I respect and see
>> hundreds of items in the references and my imagination runs wild with how
>> much work they had to do to track down where any given idea came from.
>> Renee's fond of exclamations like "They're so talented!" when watching some
>> musician or somesuch (e.g. this guy https://youtu.be/4LFcNd-psRA). My
>> refrain consists of "Talent is an illusion. What you see is the result of a
>> ton of work." It's a song we sing a lot. I'll gladly cop to being lazy. >8^D
>>
>> I noticed that Jon hid (too well) his answer to Dave's comment about
>> modes of knowledge acquisition. Assuming I'm not imputing it, the idea is
>> that these modes are not necessarily isolated or disjoint, and possibly not
>> even countable. Each agent could comprise 1 mode or a set of modes. But the
>> important part comes down to the idea that the agent (and/or its modes)
>> derives from the world. So, it takes "context matters" to an extreme. The
>> very fact that Dave identifies 5 "ways of knowing" should be derivable from
>> the world (in particular, the slice of the world Dave's experienced).
>> Ontologically, if the world were something other than what it is, an agent
>> like Dave might identify only 1 or hundreds of modes instead of 5.
>> Epistemologically, a different agent might identify 4 or 6 ways of knowing
>> with or without overlap of Dave's 5. If Dave laments the (apparent) fact
>> that everyone's become a scientismist, it may be because the world is
>> expressing scientism through the agents it produces.
>>
>> To me, the issue boils down to the expressive power of the mode. My
>> favorite meta-mathematician is Raymond Smullyan, who competently wrote on
>> all sorts of topics, including something akin to panpsychism. Are his
>> explorations of circularity in logic the same or a different mode from his
>> rejection of traditional Christianity because Hell is unchristian? I have
>> no idea. But it should be clear that Smullyan is both a product of his
>> environment and an encapsulation of some sort of spark/twitch that differs
>> from most of us. Which came first? The egg, of course.
>>
>> On 4/27/20 1:43 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
>> >> I call Twitch, which someone (on this list) pointed out to me was
>> discussed in Warren's All the King's Men, arguably my favorite novel.
>> >
>> >
>> > It was I. My narcissism requires that I receive the recognition I
>> deserve.
>>
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