Re: "rational"

Posted by Nick Thompson on Jan 07, 2014; 8:21pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/11-American-Nations-tp7584250p7584659.html

 

= On 01/07/2014 12:15 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:

WE have lost any sense of why it is important to try to come of a shared view of our inevitably common future.

 

And then, Marcus wrote:

 

“Why is it important?”

 

And so, Nick Thompson wrote:  Well, I guess I believe that it gives us some power to regulate that future for the better.  Not sure how a behaviorist CAN believe that, but I guess I do.

 

And thus life continues. 

 

Nick

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

 

From: Friam [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Marcus G. Daniels
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2014 12:29 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] "rational"

 

 

On 01/07/2014 12:15 PM, Nick Thompson wrote:

WE have lost any sense of why it is important to try to come of a shared view of our inevitably common future.

Why is it important?

Marcus

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