Posted by
Steve Smith on
Jul 12, 2009; 9:53pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Analytic-philosophy-Wikipedia-the-free-encyclopedia-tp3235494p3247697.html
@Owen:
Yes, let's have more
Applied Complexity, that is what a lot
of us are here for (among other things since it definitely ain't the
*coffee*). And I for one am taking your VSI challenge (see my reply of
7/2)... but I'm slow to order up books... I mention them to my wife and
she often finds them in one of the many streams of used books she swims
in. Maybe you can loan your copies to/through the self-organizing
Library at sfX?
@Nick:
I'm happy with the
Philosophy of Science, Language, Perception,
and Mind discussions you generate. I think you did a meritable
job many months ago of trying to take these types of discussions
offline in a creative way with what I remember you calling "Noodles" on
a Wiki Page. Sadly, I think you and I and maybe only one other took
to it. A shift of venue/form seems difficult here. I'd be game to
try again if you can remind/resurrect the effort. We can take our
noodles (marbles?) off in the corner and play with them by ourselves!
Maybe others will join us this time. The noodler's corner might very
well be it's own summary, no?
@Tory
Thanks for wading into this testosterone-infused kaffe klatch
during a food fight... we can be a rowdy crowd in our own egg-headed
way.
@Stephen:
Thanks for moderating the food fight at the FRIAM cafe... let's
go construct some cool stuff. Got photons and bits?
@Doug:
Welcome back... let's have a beer and air out our spark plugs.
I'll give Pirsig a call and see if he wants to join us.
@All:
Thanks for your patience with my own long-winded philosophical
interjections...
Now, let's go butcher some hogs (algorithmically), write some sonnets
(in JavaScript so they can go mobile and feral on the nets), plan an
invasion (of AOL?), change some diapers (our own?), comfort the dying
(Fortran, Pascal, SGI, etc.), take some orders (how about some fries
with those drinks?), give some orders (quiet down over there, you, you,
you...
philosophers!), cooperate (nah!), act alone (hah!),
solve some equations (Reimann Zeta Functions anyone?), write a proof
(Goldbach's conjecture before breakfast!), pitch manure (oops, already
done that one), program a computer (old hat!), fight efficiently (food
only), and die gallantly (or at least dramatically)!
Happy Babbling...
- Steve
OK... so, I'm having waaaayyy too much fun. I think it might be the
heat. Or the mint-juleps.
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