Shift happens

[Nick Thompson]

Cant tell if there is some guerinesque legpulling going on here.  The Gibson I was thinking of was JJ Gibson, inventor of a psychology in which all information is latent in the environment and the organism 'picks it up " by strategies of movement with respect to the environment.  this way of thinking, of course, turns perception into a behavior, just teh way foraging is a behavior.

Where did you put the girl?

Nick

Nick


----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Eldridge
To: nickthompson at earthlink.net
Cc: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
Sent: 5/30/2007 4:24:57 AM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Shift happens



No, I didn't even see "The Passion", though "Apocalypto" sounded cool.
Back in Alabama, our pickups only had room for a shotgun, a dawg & a case of beer -
no room for information - never even missed it, come to think of it.

Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Bill,

I notice that you used one of the code words,  information pickup.  Are you
a gibsonian?

Nick


 
[Original Message]
From: Bill Eldridge <[hidden email]>
To: <nickthompson at earthlink.net>; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity
   
Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
 
Date: 5/29/2007 5:13:37 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Shift happens


Dogs hear much better than you.
Does it bother you that there are frequencies they hear and you don't?
As Buckminster Fuller notes, "space" is full of electromagnetic waves -
it's not really empty at all. Does it bother you that you can't see the
waves passing by?
   
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[Bill Eldridge]

Nicholas Thompson wrote:
> Cant tell if there is some guerinesque legpulling going on here.
Kinda, but I figured you were talking about William Gibson of
Neuromancer fame.
> The Gibson I was thinking of was JJ Gibson, inventor of a psychology
> in which all information is latent in the environment and the organism
> 'picks it up " by strategies of movement with respect to the
> environment.  this way of thinking, of course, turns perception into a
> behavior, just teh way foraging is a behavior.
Gurdjieff taught that impressions are like food.
>  
> Where did you put the girl?
>  
It's a pickup, dude - they got a flatbed.
Course they complain a lot when it rains,
but I ain't gonna get my huntin' dawg all
wet now, am I?

> Nick
>  
> Nick
>  
>  
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Bill Eldridge <mailto:dcbill at volny.cz>
>     *To: *nickthompson at earthlink.net <mailto:nickthompson at earthlink.net>
>     *Cc: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
>     <mailto:friam at redfish.com>
>     *Sent:* 5/30/2007 4:24:57 AM
>     *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Shift happens
>
>
>     No, I didn't even see "The Passion", though "Apocalypto" sounded cool.
>     Back in Alabama, our pickups only had room for a shotgun, a dawg &
>     a case of beer -
>     no room for information - never even missed it, come to think of it.
>
>     Nicholas Thompson wrote:
>>     Bill,
>>
>>     I notice that you used one of the code words,  information pickup.  Are you
>>     a gibsonian?
>>
>>     Nick
>>
>>
>>      
>>>     [Original Message]
>>>     From: Bill Eldridge <dcbill at volny.cz>
>>>     To: <nickthompson at earthlink.net>; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity
>>>        
>>     Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
>>      
>>>     Date: 5/29/2007 5:13:37 PM
>>>     Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Shift happens
>>>
>>>
>>>     Dogs hear much better than you.
>>>     Does it bother you that there are frequencies they hear and you don't?
>>>     As Buckminster Fuller notes, "space" is full of electromagnetic waves -
>>>     it's not really empty at all. Does it bother you that you can't see the
>>>     waves passing by?
>>>        
>

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