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Re: Direct conversation - 1st vs 3rd person

Posted by Owen Densmore on Jul 02, 2009; 2:45pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Re-Direct-conversation-tp3137870p3195464.html

Please understand that the majority of FRIAM folks simply delete these  
and press on.

Please understand that one or more FRIAMers politely asked for  
summaries and did not receive them.

Please understand that "Please God no" is a form of netiquette.  It is  
a vote, not a censure.

I for one would expect more formalism in this discussion.  I believe  
most of your discussion could be placed in a set-theoretic framework  
and I would prefer that.

Most philosophical discussions of this ilk simply end in semantic  
deadly embrace.  They are eventually resolved, if ever, at great cost  
of word length.  The Kolmodorov complexity is quite low:
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity
in that much compression could be attained.

That said, you must understand that "Please God no" is a very high  
information content string that should be considered, not as censure,  
but as information.

Do with it what you will.

     -- Owen


On Jul 2, 2009, at 7:07 AM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:

> Dear List,
>
> Does one grumpy comment a consensus make?
>
> I can see how the philosophy of mind, a qualia, etc., might not be  
> everybody's cup of tea, but certainly it's well within FRIAM's  
> domain and the discussion has drawn out some new and interesting  
> folks.  Eh? (As we Canadians say?).
>
> Back in a week.
>
> N
>
> Nicholas S. Thompson
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
> Clark University ([hidden email])
> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Robert Holmes
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Sent: 7/1/2009 5:42:59 PM
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Direct conversation - 1st vs 3rd person
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Russ Abbott <[hidden email]>  
> wrote:
> <snip>
>
> P.S. Since this is heating up again, I've added the list back to the  
> addressees.
>
>
> Please God no.
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