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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.
Nicholas S. Thompson
Professor of Psychology and Ethology
Clark University
[hidden email]
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/[hidden email]
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