Posted by
Marcus G. Daniels on
Sep 16, 2009; 5:19am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Re-comm-was-Re-FW-Re-Emergence-Seminar-BritishEmergence-tp3654051p3654202.html
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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