[FRIAM] intro

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

Dear Doug, 

 

Our overlap at Berkeley is exact!  

 

I was a behaviorist (French, Beach, Sarbin, Riley, Eichorn, Slobin, etc.) I
took also courses in Anthro (Washburn).  

 

I mentioned the coffee urns because it was a testimony to how
highly-motivated, highly motivated, inattentive humans are incapable of
learning  simple discriminations a rat would learn in a microsecond.  There
were two gigantic coffee urns; one had coffee made, and we could take from
it; the other was making coffee, and was forbidden.  One had a red light,
the other, none.  To this day, I do not know whether the red light stood for
"forbidden" or "ready!".   It wasn't just me.  People were forever decanting
palid coffee into their Styrofoam cups and cursing the result.  Some days
the "forbidden" urn was a third empty by the time it was ready for use.  

 

We watched through the huge windows as the BioChem Building rose to our west
and obscured our view of the Golden Gate.  

 

You probably knew Dave Nichols. 

 

If curious, bio-info contained in My Descent from the Monkey
<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/302220782_My_Descent_from_the_Monk
ey> , A Utopian Approach to Ecology and Development
<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238356686_A_Utopian_perspective_on
_ecology_and_development> , and An Interview With an Old New Realist
<https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281287965_Interview_with_an_Old_Ne
w_Realist> .  

 

I will look at your stuff over the weekend. 

 

Welcome aboard!

 

Nick 

 

Nicholas Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology

Clark University

 <mailto:ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com

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

 

 

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of doug carmichael
Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2020 9:49 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: [FRIAM] intro

 

Good to have joined you  for the last part of Zoom yesterday. It was
suggested that I post more of an introduction . I have been a long time
lurker, maybe five years.

 

So few more things about me.

 

After my post doc at Harvard I went toMexico an spent three years with Erich
Fromm at his Mexican Psychoanalytic Institute that sadly no longer exists.

 

I also worked with the White House and John Koskinen on y2k, which was an
exposure to more institutions than could have been had any other way.

 

bio at https://carmichaelconversation.com/bio/

 

blog at https://carmichaelconversation.com
<https://carmichaelconversation.com/> 

 

draft book Gardenworld Politics at 

 

https://medium.com/gardenworld-politics/gardenworld-politics-chapters-and-bl
og-b8b428d84553

 

Gardenworld Politics says that we need a vision of the society to rebuild
post virus and in the midst of climate issues. The book emerged out of that
quest. 

 

Thoughts more than welcome.

 

virtual hugs

 

doug.

 

 

 

 

 

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