Re: ABMs and Psychology

Posted by Steve Smith on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Re-comm-was-Re-FW-Re-Emergence-Seminar-BritishEmergence-tp3654051p3695697.html

Douglas Roberts wrote:
Good question!

Let's see what my random philosophy generator has to say about this:

It is plain that we have not simply lost an infinite horizon of approximations for phenomenology; we retain it, however, by a freely actualizable return to experiences.
Holy shiite Doug!   You are our Reluctant Oracle after all!

I think you've hit upon the fundamental answer to all of our questions, philosphical (synchronicity vs emergence and epistimology vs cosmology), technological (what is the bestest language for OO or ABM development), psychological (variations on homunculus talk), mathematical (is solving Goldbach's conjecture fundamentally more important than Fermat's last theorem?), and practical (is it too late for coffee yet too early for beer? And in what Time Zone?)

All of these FRIAM discussions do seem to be about infinite horizons and somebody always demands that we return to experiences.

Amazing... Synchronicity *and* Morphic Resonance all rolled into one!

;-} Steve

Ah, yes: fine stuff.

;-}

--Doug

On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 2:28 PM, glen e. p. ropella <[hidden email]> wrote:
Thus spake Douglas Roberts circa 09-09-22 12:27 PM:
> Nah.  Let's go with philosophy. Again.

Hm.  Which is worse?  Yahoos who have a tendency to wax philosophical or
yahoos who continually, insistently, repeat the same vapid objection to
philosophy over and over and over despite the lack of effect?

What's the definition of "insanity" again? [grin]

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