Mosquito Infested Bog
Locked
 
|
All,
Well, I 'm off the M.I.B., for the summer. Which means, only, that I wont be able to attend the Friday Prayer Meetings of the Mother Church for for the next three months. [sigh] Take good notes, everybody, and keep that copy of Endless Forms Most Beautiful circulating.
I WILL be able and ready and willing to talk about important stuff. I particularly want to go back to Schroedinger, which I sort of punted the first time around. Read in the context of Caroll's Endless Forms, Shroedinger seems so prescient. Shroedinger wonders how life, composed as it is of the itsy bitsy, is able to maintain itself in the face of heat motion. Caroll points out that, not only has life carried on in the fact of heat motion, but that the precisely the same amino acid sequences have been around in living things for up to a billion years. In a way, the genome is about the most stable thing we got going. How could this be? Answer: "Life is an aperiodic crystal. " I want everybody's imput on all of this.
The first step, of course, is to make sure i have read Schroedinger correctly. So when I next open up my computer amidst the dank horrors of the M.I.B., it will be to put before you some of the passages of Schroedinger for exigesis '
Otherwise, have a wonderful summer.
nick (};-|)
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University ([hidden email])
http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]
============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
|
|
Nick, is it just coincidence that when I get to town you leave?
On May 23, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Rem tene; verba sequentur. Grasp the subject; the words will follow. Cato the Elder ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
|
|
Has anyone ever seen "Pamela McCorduck" and
"Nicholas Thompson" in the same place at the same time? > Nick, is it just coincidence that when I get to town you leave? > > > On May 23, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > > > > All, > > > > Well, I 'm off the M.I.B., for the summer. Which means, only, that > > I wont be able to attend the Friday Prayer Meetings of the Mother > > Church for for the next three months. [sigh] Take good notes, > > everybody, and keep that copy of Endless Forms Most Beautiful > > circulating. > > > > I WILL be able and ready and willing to talk about important > > stuff. I particularly want to go back to Schroedinger, which I > > sort of punted the first time around. Read in the context of > > Caroll's Endless Forms, Shroedinger seems so prescient. > > Shroedinger wonders how life, composed as it is of the itsy bitsy, > > is able to maintain itself in the face of heat motion. Caroll > > points out that, not only has life carried on in the fact of heat > > motion, but that the precisely the same amino acid sequences have > > been around in living things for up to a billion years. In a way, > > the genome is about the most stable thing we got going. How could > > this be? Answer: "Life is an aperiodic crystal. " I want > > everybody's imput on all of this. > > > > The first step, of course, is to make sure i have read Schroedinger > > correctly. So when I next open up my computer amidst the dank > > horrors of the M.I.B., it will be to put before you some of the > > passages of Schroedinger for exigesis ' > > > > Otherwise, have a wonderful summer. > > > > nick (};-|) > > > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, > > Clark University ([hidden email]) > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe] > > > > > > > > > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > Rem tene; verba sequentur. > > Grasp the subject; the words will follow. > > > Cato the Elder > > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
Re: Mosquito Infested Bog
|
|
No, but I've seen the same place without either of them.
Robert On 5/23/10 11:32 AM, [hidden email] wrote: > Has anyone ever seen "Pamela McCorduck" and > "Nicholas Thompson" in the same place at the > same time? > > >> Nick, is it just coincidence that when I get to town you leave? >> >> >> On May 23, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote: >> >> >>> All, >>> >>> Well, I 'm off the M.I.B., for the summer. Which means, only, that >>> I wont be able to attend the Friday Prayer Meetings of the Mother >>> Church for for the next three months. [sigh] Take good notes, >>> everybody, and keep that copy of Endless Forms Most Beautiful >>> circulating. >>> >>> I WILL be able and ready and willing to talk about important >>> stuff. I particularly want to go back to Schroedinger, which I >>> sort of punted the first time around. Read in the context of >>> Caroll's Endless Forms, Shroedinger seems so prescient. >>> Shroedinger wonders how life, composed as it is of the itsy bitsy, >>> is able to maintain itself in the face of heat motion. Caroll >>> points out that, not only has life carried on in the fact of heat >>> motion, but that the precisely the same amino acid sequences have >>> been around in living things for up to a billion years. In a way, >>> the genome is about the most stable thing we got going. How could >>> this be? Answer: "Life is an aperiodic crystal. " I want >>> everybody's imput on all of this. >>> >>> The first step, of course, is to make sure i have read Schroedinger >>> correctly. So when I next open up my computer amidst the dank >>> horrors of the M.I.B., it will be to put before you some of the >>> passages of Schroedinger for exigesis ' >>> >>> Otherwise, have a wonderful summer. >>> >>> nick (};-|) >>> >>> >>> Nicholas S. Thompson >>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, >>> Clark University ([hidden email]) >>> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ >>> http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe] >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> ============================================================ >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >>> >> >> Rem tene; verba sequentur. >> >> Grasp the subject; the words will follow. >> >> >> Cato the Elder >> >> >> > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org |
«
Return to Friam
|
1 view|%1 views
| Free forum by Nabble | Edit this page |