to Complex M from Lewis L Smith I quite agree with David Snowden about the language which one must use in introducing the concepts of...
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Nov 1, 2005 3:54 pm
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Andrew, There is an excellent little book I read a few years ago called "General System Theory and Human Communication" or something similar. This was the...
to Complex M from Lewis L Smith Most introductions to academic disciplines ignore a fundamental matter — the epistemology...
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Nov 1, 2005 3:59 pm
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Hey Frank and all, I'm sorry I've been away for awhile-or at least my computer has. I don't have much time now to join the discussion, but I look forward to...
Andrew, I am older than Catherine, so I could not follow exactly what she did and you couldn't. The term "complexity" is used all over and in all kinds of...
I think you may be underestimating the power of complexity as a concept, when illustrated against the real problems that people face, to illuminate past...
Buck, As to the manufacturing model, or factory mentality, I think it's pervasive in all other areas of management and organizational thought. (and culture as...
Jon, I usually keep away from your posts because our ways of thinking are diverging and I am not for straw-manship. Now - however - I would barge in and make...
sorry no caps broken keyboard buck, i pretty much agree with this- Ph. D.'s are more likely to have learned to deal with abstraction and complex topics than...
Dave, I second what you wrote, the fact that the parents (or later circumstgances) facilitated for someone to pass the Ph.D. promovation, does not mean a ...
john, just a few thoughts. i value frank highly too, and you and everyone else on the list. my comments were in no way a judgement on frank's value, but on the...
john and all, i couldn't resist sending this article by steve fuller regarding his testimony in the intelligent design case. my point is not to start a debate...
Jon, a brief reply: (I hope) 1. A 'straw-man', as I learned in this - the 5th of my languages - is someone who argues for argument's sake, maybe on not...
In Something in the Wind? 29/10/2005 09:54:12 GMT Standard Time Andrew wrote, "Upon receiving the note, the master smiled and wrote "fart fart" on the ...
ACampnona@...
Nov 2, 2005 6:49 pm
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Dear Forum, If it is possible for a human becomng-being to write..."the finite is affined to the infinite" and it makes 'sense', does it follow that by way of...
ACampnona@...
Nov 2, 2005 6:50 pm
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Yeah, lets please not start a debate on this ridiculous totally unscientific Intelligent Design BS. Jon, just mentioning the words makes me feel cringy. I...
Frank (Symphoenix Ltd)
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Nov 2, 2005 6:50 pm
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Dear Forum members "The next question was - what makes planets go around the sun? At the time of Kepler some people answered this problem by saying that there...
ACampnona@...
Nov 3, 2005 1:30 am
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Dear Forum, Frank intones, "Nice try, but we are not buying it." May i humbly ask Frank who the 'we' are and what the inference here is of 'buying it'? By what...
ACampnona@...
Nov 3, 2005 1:30 am
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I like the intelligent falling satire, Gravity is just a hypothesis, how about intelligent falling That said the issue of religion and the religious impulse is...
Frank, I did not even THINK of starting a discussion ABOUT the merits/content of the ID hoax, rather about its role in the restoration of a 'modernized'...
to Complex M from Lewis L Smith I do not think that science and religion are inherently incompatible, unless scientists insist that...
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Nov 4, 2005 3:30 pm
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... Dave: thank you for this mental somersault. BTW: there is no chance in debating religious belief vs scientific belief positions, the arguments are on ...
Andrew, Of course you are right, if you choose to interpret things the way you do. If I mention 'we' it is more a generalized statement about my own thoughts ...
Frank (Symphoenix Ltd)
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Nov 4, 2005 3:31 pm
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Andrew, Beautifully said by you and Feynman, with all due deference to my brother Frank, from whom I learn much. Freedom of expression is a hallmark of an open...
Andrew, that is a 'first'. i am a member of this group since 1997 and pretend to have a good memory. I do not remember so far anybody presenting such arrogance...
John, And I very much agree with you! There is a place for religion and belief in god. The fact that I do not believe is not relevant, it helps many people. ...
Frank (Symphoenix Ltd)
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Nov 4, 2005 3:32 pm
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Frank et.al, I think you will find this fascinating if you take the time to read it. I'm attaching the expert testimony of Steve Fuller in the ID case. I'm a...
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