[FRIAM] Intentionality is the Mark of the Vital

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

J.

 

Many of my collaborators have been philosophers, such as Derr, Bybee, Lipton, and Barker, who, while disagreeing with me profoundly on many matters, have generously helped me shape my ideas in some degree palatable to the field while opening my eyes to whole realms of philosophy I would not otherwise have encountered..  

 

The same is true of FRIAM which has bemused me with complexity, mathematics, and the mysteries of algorithmic thinking and has kept me “in the biz” deep into retirement.  There is no greater kindness.

 

Thank you, all, 

 

Nick 

 

 

 

 

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One of my favorite papers from Nick is the paper „Intentionality is the Mark of the Vital“. Maybe because every piece of code I write as a developer has a certain purpose and intention. Genetic code contains instructions & recipes too. It has an „intention“.

 

Why is that so many of the good papers are a collaboration of two persons from different departments? Wilson & Sober have written a paper about group selection, Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson too:

 

Intentionality is the Mark of the Vital

Nicholas Simonds Thompson & Patrick G. Derr

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302294783_Intentionality_is_the_Mark_of_the_Vital

 

Reintroducing Group Selection to the Human Behavioral Sciences

David Sloan Wilson & Elliott Sober

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/243771813_Reintroducing_Group_Selection_to_the_Human_Behavioral_Sciences

 

Transmission coupling mechanisms: Cultural group selection

Robert Boyd and Peter Richerson
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/47644497_Transmission_coupling_mechanisms_Cultural_group_selection

 

Many more papers from Boyd & Richerson can be found here at https://www.robboyd.net/publications 

 

-J.

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