[FRIAM] Discoveries and Indistinguishables

[Nicholas Thompson]

No.  Lurking metaphor,tho, between fungal netowrks and language latices

nick

On Wed, Sep 4, 2024 at 6:46 PM Jon Zingale <jonzingale at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ok, seriously, has anyone heard of this guy? In the process of continuing
> my work on situating theories of computation within the context of
> syntactic categories, I found myself down a rabbit hole leading to this
> thinker. A F Parker-Rhodes' book[0] "The Theory of Indistinguishables" has
> at the very least a table of contents worth perusing.
>
> The wikipedia article[1] depicts an individual with a diversity of his
> deep interests, publications and public affiliations resembling the
> penchants of some I have met through Friam. Somehow it still surprises me
> when I discover a Lewis Fry Richardson or Per Martin-Löf so late in life.
> Is A F Parker-Rhodes another of these?
>
> References:
> [0]
> http://xdel.ru/downloads/lgbooks/%28Synthese%20Library%20150%29%20A.%20F.%20Parker-Rhodes%20%28auth.%29-The%20Theory%20of%20Indistinguishables_%20A%20Search%20for%20Explanatory%20Principles%20Below%20the%20Level%20of%20Physics-Springer%20Netherlands%20%281981%29.pdf
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Parker-Rhodes
>
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Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology
Clark University
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