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Following on from a conversation I had with Nick last week. Here are some videos from WIRED in which experts explain their field at (widely) varying levels of difficulty. —R ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove |
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^^ It's awesome! A friend turned me on to it. Their is urban myth that some scientists got into a heated argument about something, in a pub or lecture hall. At some point one of the bellowed that if you can't explain it so as a kid can understand it you're doing it wrong! Steven Hawking seemed to thing it might have been anecdote about Einstein, or Higs . I have no idea who was involved. However IMO if I can't explain it so a 14 year old nephew can understand it...i'm doing it wrong. I love it that WIRED and Hawking and NDGT (NeilDrase Tyson however his name is spelled) seem to have simillar thoughts. It's a really good clip..they have one on QBit Computing. On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 8:12 PM Robert Holmes <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Robert, These are great. Let’s have a huge effing fight on Friday about this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opqIa5Jiwuw&t=0s&list=PLibNZv5Zd0dyCoQ6f4pdXUFnpAIlKgm3N&index=2 Bruce is going to love it and I think it’s a crock. In fact, I think it gets crockier the more “expert” it becomes. But I still love it. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Robert Holmes Following on from a conversation I had with Nick last week. Here are some videos from WIRED in which experts explain their field at (widely) varying levels of difficulty. —R ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove |
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Yeah, that's the one that got me grinding my teeth too… On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 9:40 PM Nick Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Eric, We are planning a ferocious argument at FRIAM on this video (see below), and I am wondering what a believer in “embodied consciousness” might have to say about it, going in. It’s only about six minutes long, so perhaps you could take a moment from your drywall. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University From: Nick Thompson [mailto:[hidden email]] Robert, These are great. Let’s have a huge effing fight on Friday about this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opqIa5Jiwuw&t=0s&list=PLibNZv5Zd0dyCoQ6f4pdXUFnpAIlKgm3N&index=2 Bruce is going to love it and I think it’s a crock. In fact, I think it gets crockier the more “expert” it becomes. But I still love it. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ From: Friam [[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Robert Holmes Following on from a conversation I had with Nick last week. Here are some videos from WIRED in which experts explain their field at (widely) varying levels of difficulty. —R ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove |
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Yeah, except there's a well-read interested-in-all-things-scientific
14 year old, and then there's my wife. I know who I'd rather explain things to :). Then there's my friend's book "Debunking Economics". I found it rather heavy going, because I had to figure out from the text what the actual mathematical equations were (at least its economics, not rocket science!). Some other people I spoke to found it to be the paragon of clarity, precisely because it contained no mathematical notation. Go figure. On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 09:58:46PM -0700, Nick Thompson wrote: > Eric, > > > > We are planning a ferocious argument at FRIAM on this video (see below), and I > am wondering what a believer in “embodied consciousness” might have to say > about it, going in. It’s only about six minutes long, so perhaps you could > take a moment from your drywall. > > > > Nick > > > > > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > > From: Nick Thompson [mailto:[hidden email]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 9:40 PM > To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group' <[hidden email]> > Subject: RE: [FRIAM] Experts explaining stuff at multiple levels of difficulty > > > > Robert, > > > > These are great. Let’s have a huge effing fight on Friday about this one: > > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opqIa5Jiwuw&t=0s&list= > PLibNZv5Zd0dyCoQ6f4pdXUFnpAIlKgm3N&index=2 > > Bruce is going to love it and I think it’s a crock. In fact, I think it gets > crockier the more “expert” it becomes. > > > > But I still love it. > > > > Nick > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > > From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Robert Holmes > Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 8:12 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[hidden email]> > Subject: [FRIAM] Experts explaining stuff at multiple levels of difficulty > > > > Following on from a conversation I had with Nick last week. Here are some > videos from WIRED in which experts explain their field at (widely) varying > levels of difficulty. > > > > https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLibNZv5Zd0dyCoQ6f4pdXUFnpAIlKgm3N > > > > —R > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Senior Research Fellow [hidden email] Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove |
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