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For whatever value they might have, I am continuing to post things I have
written that are relevant various projects or ideas mentioned in the
Friday Morning meetings.
We spent some time kicking around some sort of project that would be
enjoyable,
keep some of us off the street, and make FRIAM noticeable as group
dedicated to
the practical implications of complexity theory. (Sorry if I am butchering
this.) From
my own experience, Santa Fe is full of people interested in complexity but
the
tremendous reputation of SFI and its standoffishness, makes them difficult
to find.
Two ideas we have kicked around are a publication dedicated to making the
implications of complexity theory accessible to non-nerd public and a web
page,
with some of the same goals, which would come up when one searched
Complexity and Santa Fe. Two credentials that I might have to help with
such a
project are that I have some experience as a free lance writer on
scientific subjects
and I am relatively naive about complexity theory and so like the target
audience.
Could I perhaps draft stuff for others' approval, etc? Whether any of
this is a good
idea or whether, indeed, we WANT to be found is yet to be determined. In
any
case, I have now posted three pieces, The Alphabet Soup Letter, Annals of
Medical Sociobiology, and How Leopards Got Their Spots, as examples of odd
ball ways to get scientific ideas across.
They can be found at home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/ . I apologize for
the file
sizes.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Professor of Psychology and Ethology
Clark University
[hidden email]
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/[hidden email]
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