Marcus,
Well, if you mean by a conclusion only that the subject is dropped, I guess
I subscribe to the implication that I am always in favor of further
conversation. However, to me a conclusion means more than silence. It
means that the discussants understand one another's positions, could
articulate the disagreement to one another;s satsifaction, and have agreed
or agreed to disagree. Otherwise we are no more than the aforementioned
foghorns.
N
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (
[hidden email])
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/> [Original Message]
> From: Marcus G. Daniels <
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> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <
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> Date: 9/15/2009 11:20:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] comm. (was
Re:FW: Re:Emergence Seminar--BritishEmergence)
>
> Nicholas Thompson wrote:
> > Before you responded to my message, you built a model of my mind.
> I built a model of your utterance from immediate context. In my view,
> it would not be useful for me to attempt to model your mind, as that
> includes, among other things, your life memory, emotions, logical and
> non-logical executive processes. Such a model would be very complex,
> ill-informed by data available and comprehensible to me, and less
> effective than asking for clarification on Emergence or communication or
> whatever.
> > If one tries to be aware of the different models that might be built on
the
> > same words, it helps to make a conversation more fruitful, I believe.
> Is a fruitful conversation one that leads to more conversation, or to a
> conclusion?
>
> Marcus
> --
> "What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk
> about we must pass over in silence."
> Ludwig Wittgenstein
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