[FRIAM] Fwd: Question from Merle

[Tom Johnson]

Nick:
Five published papers, you say. Might you have left out the book of
proceedings of the Ver 1.0 conference held in Santa Fe in 2006. Many of the
goals of the conference were ignited by FRIAM conversations. Many current
FRIAM participants were involved.

See
http://www.lulu.com/shop/j-t-johnson/ver-10-workshop-proceedings/paperback/product-546459.html

Tom

On Tue, Jan 7, 2020, 6:45 AM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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