[FRIAM] New ways of understanding the world

[Prof David West]

Nick,

You are summarily restating the position of the paper you are co-authoring. You may recall that I was a bit critical of that position in my comments on that paper. I remain so.

davew


On Tue, Dec 1, 2020, at 9:54 AM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> M. 

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> Every description engages a theory. It’s theories all the way down.

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> N.

> Nicholas Thompson

> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology

> Clark University

> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com

> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> *On Behalf Of *Marcus Daniels
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 1, 2020 8:17 AM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] New ways of understanding the world

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> Glen writes:

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> <1) there are different ways to try random,
> 2) there are different stuffs to be tried, and
> 3) there are different ways to reproduce.> 

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> It seems to me the taxa of life are a description not a theory.

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> Marcus

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> *From:* Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of ⛧ glen <gepropella at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, December 1, 2020 2:34 AM
> *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] New ways of understanding the world

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> 1) there are different ways to try random,
> 2) there are different stuffs to be tried, and
> 3) there are different ways to reproduce.
> 
> The particular, concrete ways used to do 1, 2, & 3 constitute the theory.
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> On November 30, 2020 5:36:23 PM PST, Marcus Daniels <marcus at snoutfarm.com> wrote:
> >How about Try random stuff and possibly reproduce?
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