[FRIAM] Intentionality is the Mark of the Vital

[Jochen Fromm]

This is one reason why I like FRIAM too. It is always a source of inspiration and insights.Albert Einstein said "A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended is its area of applicability".https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_EinsteinHis own theories relate physics and mathematics. Apparently philosophy and the social sciences are a good combination too.-J.
-------- Original message --------From: thompnickson2 at gmail.com Date: 8/3/20  13:46  (GMT+01:00) To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <friam at redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Intentionality is the Mark of the VitalMany 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     From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of jofr at cas-group.netSent: Monday, August 3, 2020 12:29 AMTo: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>Subject: [FRIAM] Intentionality is the Mark of the Vital 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 VitalNicholas Simonds Thompson & Patrick G. Derrhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/302294783_Intentionality_is_the_Mark_of_the_Vital Reintroducing Group Selection to the Human Behavioral SciencesDavid Sloan Wilson & Elliott Soberhttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/243771813_Reintroducing_Group_Selection_to_the_Human_Behavioral_Sciences Transmission coupling mechanisms: Cultural group selectionRobert Boyd and Peter Richersonhttps://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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