Posted by
Phil Henshaw-2 on
Aug 05, 2006; 11:21am
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Friam-Digest-Vol-38-Issue-3-tp522318p522328.html
the great laugh, of course, was that Bush probably didn't get the
joke...
But seriously, it does point to one of the grand properties of human
perception, and I think emergent complexity generally, that every
observer feels 'in their guts' that their own perception provides the
one correct model of the universe! That would explain why everyone is
so satisfied with their own snap judgments, it's sort of built in. A
case in point. IF the Earth turns out to have finite development
potential, the world plan for continual growth becomes a plan for not
only 'you' to take over the Earth, but for everyone else to do so as
well, independently. The usual reaction is something dreamy, "oh yes,
yes, and when that matters you can wake me again...", or "that's nice,
I'm going to take over the world then...", etc. Humans do actually
seem to be adrift in a dream world of their own making, for the very
cool reason that we all build our own (dream) world from the inside!
The drawback is that it's also be a trap.
I think seeing breaks in the wall points to ways out. When a modeled
artificial ecology develops emergent structures I suppose there's
evidence of their developing responsively somehow. Is there any
evidence that they then become inherently unresponsive?
Phil Henshaw ????.?? ? `?.????
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Jochen Fromm
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 3:20 AM
> To: 'The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group'
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Friam Digest, Vol 38, Issue 3
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> Perhaps the best way to solve complex problems is to
> let your guts decide ? What did Stephen Colbert say
> at the White House Correspondents Dinner ? "..That's
> where the truth lies, right down here in the gut", see
http://video.google.de/videoplay?docid=-869183917758574879-J.
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