[FRIAM] Fwd: Question from Merle

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

Steve, 

You a good and kind man!

FRIAM is the petri-dish that brings ideas from different sources into proximity, and metaphors are the enzymes that actually coax them into interaction.  No other working group has ever been as stimulating.  I have often said, I owe my intellectual (if not biological) survival to it.  Five scientific papers have been published because of the proddings and goadings of our FRIAM colleagues, and I am starting working on a sixth, now.  Thanks for that. 

Nick 


Nicholas Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
Clark University
ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
 


-----Original Message-----
From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Steven A Smith
Sent: Monday, January 6, 2020 12:41 PM
To: friam at redfish.com; Lars Larsson <perslars at hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Fwd: Question from Merle


> Lars, Merle, Nick, and FRIAM members,
>
> Thank you for taking the time to respond, Lars! It's an important 
> first spark of interaction between two groups with Stockholm and Santa 
> Fe as nexus.
Just to second Stephen's praise for both Lars' and Merle's "shepherding"
our group so deftly.   Kudos to Lars and Merle (and the other participants)!
> Perhaps there's a way we can facilitate an electronic exchange between 
> the two groups as a kind of question and response could flow between 
> the two communities. Or some process that has a feel of a  
> https://bohmdialogue.org/  ? We certainly need to be sharing ideas and 
> coming to greater understanding without traveling great distances to 
> accomplish it :-)

In the spirit of Merle's "Emergent Diplomacy", the way she facilitated the meeting did allow-for and yield a certain amount of emergence and self-organization and Lars style fully supported the same.   I am a fan of Bohm's "Rheomode" and perhaps the precedent in the implementation of collective dialogue building through Ward Cunningham's Wiki Wiki and then more familiarly Wales and Sanger's Wikipedia... which we all use even if we sometimes love to hate it.

For what it is worth, Nick tried to instigate an interesting process/structure that he described as "noodling" or perhaps "noodling around"... as I remember it, an aesthetic for taking any noodle (thread) and cross-linking it with other noodles (threads) in a constructive manner.   I wasn't able to (easily) find the discussion of this on the SFComplex mail-list, but wanted to at least give Nick a nod for his ongoing, indomitable spirit for trying to build collective work-products from freewheeling ad-hoc collaboration.

- Steve


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