RE: Friam Digest, Vol 24, Issue 5

[Nick Thompson]

Borders is absolutely NOT. And even if you think about putting up the
dough,
signing on seems pretty difficult.

 I think they are rightly ambivalent.  The idea that us folks can park at
the best table in a coffee house all day and bring our bag lunch clearly
makes no more sense than the idea that LALA tourists can weave through SFE
traffic while tearily discussing their current love lives on cell phones
with their EX's  in Pacific Palisades.    

 I think the norm should be at least a buck an hour for connection.  


What would it take to paint the whole town?

Am I right that somebody painted Boulder?

Nick

Nicholas S. Thompson
Professor of Psychology and Ethology
Clark University
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> I don't think Borders & Starbucks really have *free* wireless though.
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> Jochen,
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> Baldwin and his effect are VERY important to the epigenic conversation if

only because the proposed effect completely mucks with the nature nurture
distinction.  
> I have a colleague back at Clark who has made a bit of a a study of
Baldwin but unfortunately, with my dim mental resources, about all I can
recall is that Baldwin is MUCH more than his Effect.  Perhaps he will send
us an electronic copy of his article.
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> While I am on, one of the consequences of my reading Coen's ARt of the
Gene is that I now think I actually have a grip on the meaning of the term
... and I hate it, and think we should all stop using it.  Apparently it
comes out of the days of preformationism in the literal sense of that term,
and the epigenetic view is the opposite of the preformationist view.  So
epigensis is identified with any formative power that determines the shape
of the growing organism FROM THE OUTSIDE.  It thus, at least in the
historical sense, takes a position on the nature nurture debate, which is,
of course, in herently stupid.  
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> So I propose that we drop the term epigenetic and substitute the term
dialectogenic.  

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