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Hi, everybody,
I have invited Bill Laurizen to join us tomorrow morning, who, on his own account, is interested "in complexity and universal selection theory, commercial applications of complexity theory, etc., etc." He also wonders if any of us know Alan Kay ?
He is also the author of a book on the origins of religion, http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002FB650G .
I look forward to seeing you all,
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University ([hidden email])
http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]
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His website features him in pictures with various people. On has this.
Mamikon and Lauritzen in front of the Project
Mathematics office near Cal Tech. Mamokin developed a method of doing
many
standard calculus problems without the use of formulas or even
knowledge of
calculus. Mamikon was featured in the Cal Tech magazine, Engineering
and Science, and recently won an award from the American
Mathematical Society. Lauritzen and Mamikon are working on a project
to get this
information on a web site. Did that calculus-free calculus ever get onto the web? -- Russ Abbott ______________________________________ Professor, Computer Science California State University, Los Angeles cell: 310-621-3805 blog: http://russabbott.blogspot.com/ vita: http://sites.google.com/site/russabbott/ ______________________________________ On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:33 PM, Nicholas Thompson <[hidden email]> wrote:
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Alan and I worked briefly together at Apple. We were interested in forming a research group there, based on an Alto-like computer we called the Big Mac: Postscript graphics, Unix kernel, Ethernet. 1984-ish. It was the carpet bagger period after the initial success and most of us left within the year, Jobs pretty soon there after. Bleak period.
-- Owen On Apr 1, 2010, at 10:33 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
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1984 -- That was just about when I was transitioning from my CP/M-based computing environments to Symbolics 3600s. Is it any wonder I'm a bit schizophrenic?
--Doug
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Thanks for the website link.
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~mamikon/VisualCalc.html "The animated sequences will be designed by Mamikon himself, using
Flash Animation or Java Applets, which can easily be placed on the
Internet and accessed from the Project's web site:
http://www.projectmathematics.com. Professional animators will be
used to render the Flash Animation to a format suitable for broadcast
quality television." (Slightly off topic) I am intrigued that "in addition to extensive military and physical training" Lauritzen was able to study "algebra and trigonometry, analytic geometry, calculus, engineering, law, astronomy, philosophy, ethics, comparative religion, astrodynamics, electrical engineering, chemistry, aeronautical engineering, psychology, anthropology, history, Russian, US history, world history, military history, air power and 20th century warfare, statistics, mechanics, biology, human physiology, political science, physics, space flight, economics, and art." in a mere 2 years. Is / was this kind of education typical in the USA ? I recall having read some extracts of his previous "book" (tract ??) "God is a three letter word", and if I had paid for it I would certainly have come to the meeting tomorrow to demand my money back "My Ebook is available on my web site, and if you buy it, read it, and then do not believe it is the best book ever on science and religion I will fully refund your money. My web site is: www.earth360.com The title of the book is: "The Invention of God: The Origins of Religious and Scientific Thought" I have another book for sale also called: "God is a Three-Letter Word, which is a much shorter book. I will also refund your money if you are not completely satisfied after reading that book.
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Just a brief follow up:
Bill Lauritzen's latest book is available on "google books". [http://books.google.com/books?id=g6jE_6P-o2kC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_v2_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q=&f=false] Its truly amazing how using cut and paste off the Internet he has fleshed out his theories about volcanoes (Vulcanic Gods) and "oxygen = soul" from his earlier pamphlet. from page 248 PART I .. However, the field of 'archeoastronomy' is well established and many responsible investigators publish their findings every year [316] PART II .. There is a field of study called 'geomythology' which is not very well known. ..this section makes important contributions ot that field. PART III .. "What the early humans probably called spirit, soul, and often times "God" was primarily an attempt to describe and understand what we now know as "Oxygen" .. this section creates a new branch of science with its elaboration of the connection between the "soul" and "oxygen".. Lauritzen's prescription (page 249) .. Scientists need to quit attacking religion. 1) BY, ... 2) By simplifying their models as much as possible without reducing their high match to reality. page 265, he lists the Santa Fe institute 1984 foundation as an important milestone in the time line. (Incidentally a timeline which conveniently skips the Rig Veda .. among other works .. which predates his oxygen thesis of page 257 virtually word for word). On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 11:41 PM, sarbajit roy <[hidden email]> wrote: Thanks for the website link. ============================================================ 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 |
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