[FRIAM] semantic networks

[Stephen Guerin]

please skim this document.
https://gsd.live/people/stephen-guerin/cognitive-landscapes-group/papers/reaction-diffusion-stigmergic_web_matrix.html

and then what it represents to me:

https://gsd.live/people/stephen-guerin/cognitive-landscapes-group/papers/reflection-on-reaction-diffusion-sketch.md



and then look up latin etymology of document. then a zoom with me





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On Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 5:09 PM Stephen Guerin <stephen.guerin at simtable.com>
wrote:

> I am thinking 80% of my time about it this week. do you know Hesse's Glass
> Bead Game?
>
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> On Thu, Apr 30, 2026, 3:07 PM Nicholas Thompson <thompnickson2 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear stephen,
>>
>> This is the time of year when I should be packing, and so I find myself
>> overwhelmed by hi-toned philosophical ruminations.
>>
>> Many years ago, before the dawn of time, you worked with SFI on
>> visualizing semantic webs.  The idea of semantic webs is attractive to me
>> as an experience monist because, on my understanding, every new
>> experience lights up a different part of the semantic web in which all
>> experiences are embedded, past, present, future.
>>
>> In my present state of unpackingness, I find myself desperately concerned
>> to find out where your effort ended and if you have thought about it since.
>>
>> To my FRIAM colleagues, if you want to play, GREAT!, but dont feel you
>> have  to big-foot this one.
>>
>> Nick
>> --
>> Nicholas S. Thompson
>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology
>> Clark University
>> nthompson at clarku.edu
>> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson
>> https://substack.com/@monist
>>
>
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