Posted by
Steve Smith on
Sep 20, 2012; 6:21pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Cognition-and-Calculus-WAS-faith-zombies-and-crazy-people-tp7580628p7580645.html
A friend of mine gave me (at age 16) a
placard which said:
"I know you believe you understand what you think I
said, but I'm not sure that what you heard is what I meant"
Anytime someone's sentences come packed a bit too tight for me to
unpack easily or if I am confused or even offended by what appears
to be a complex convolution, I remember that phrase.
I have come to trust Arlo to mean exactly what he says even if or
when it is beyond my focus or context to parse it well...
In that spirit (being not completely sure how tightly in his cheek
Doug's tongue was planted when he wrote this), I happily second
Arlo's most excellent one-liner (are parenthetical inclusions
allowed technically in one-liners?).
- Steve
I nominate this for the coveted (yet prestigious)
award of FRIAM Sentence of the Year!
Seriously, this one sentence captures the essence of what it
means to be on this list. If it were allowed, I'd award extra
points for it having been delivered concisely, if not precisely.
Long-time members of this list will recognize the magnitude
of the honor this award would represent.
I shall leave you all to ponder the the integral of my action
function.
--Doug
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Arlo
Barnes
<[hidden email]>
wrote:
So if you are saying that actions are
the derivative of feelings, because feelings are [an
interpretation of] a trend, does that mean all we have
to do to perceive intent is to find the integral of an
action function, indefinite as the result may be?
-Arlo James Barnes
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