Bourbon is also good. Especially when made up into a Manhattan. Small squeeze of fresh orange, a decent sweet red vermouth, marsichino...
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Victoria Hughes <[email protected]>wrote: > That can happen too. > That's the point, there are no necessary boundaries. > Although I am a bourbon woman, personally. > > > > On Sep 7, 2009, at 5:09 PM, Victoria Hughes wrote: > > I am up for this one, Merle- >> >> Tory >> >> >> On Sep 7, 2009, at 12:02 PM, Merle Lefkoff wrote: >> >> But we may have to have a useful conversation about emergence in order to >>> talk about soul, consciousness, or spirit. >>> >>> Merle >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Nicholas Thompson wrote: >>> >>>> Try this: a property of an entity is emergent when it depends on the >>>> arrangment or the order of presentation of the parts of the entity. (It's >>>> /properties/ that are emergent, not /entities/ ... some properties of a >>>> pile >>>> of sand are emergent, some aggregate.) Here, I believe, I am channeling >>>> Wimsatt. The beauty of reading a collection such as Bedau and The Other >>>> Guy >>>> is that you experience the whip-lash of moving from point of view to point >>>> of view. Good exercise for the neck. By the way, Russ (was it?) was a >>>> ...leetle... unfair to Bedau. I dont think Bedau thinks it's a mystery; i >>>> think he thinks others have thought it a mystery. But it's been a few >>>> months since I read it. Implementation: Consider the expression, "there >>>> is >>>> more than one way to skin a cat". Equivalent to: "there are several >>>> programs you can use to implement a cat skinning." Consciousness: the >>>> big >>>> source of confusion in emergence discussions is the attempt to attach >>>> emergence to such perennial mysteries as consciousness. (Actually, I dont >>>> think consciousness is a mystery, but let that go.) The strength of a >>>> triangle is an emergent property of the arrangment of its legs and their >>>> attachments. There are lots of ways bang together boards and still have a >>>> weak construction, which I learned when I put together a grape arbor with >>>> no >>>> diagonal members. Worked fine until the grapes grew on it. Emergent >>>> properties are everywhere in the simplest of constructions. We dont need >>>> to >>>> talk about soul, or consciouness, or spirit to have a useful conversation >>>> about emergence. >>>> Nick >>>> Nicholas S. Thompson >>>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, >>>> Clark University ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>) >>>> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/>< >>>> http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/> >>>> >>>> ----- Original Message ----- >>>> *From:* Victoria Hughes <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> *To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group >>>> <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> *Sent:* 9/6/2009 10:32:59 AM >>>> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] emergence >>>> >>>> Consciousness / self-awareness? >>>> Is this thus acceptable as an emergent phenomenon? >>>> If so, how does this permit, or not, the definition of 'the self' >>>> as a unique identity? >>>> >>>> Emergence is what happens when components of the "emergent >>>>> entity" act in such a way as to bring about the existence and >>>>> persistence of that entity. >>>>> >>>>> When "boids" follow their local flying rules, they create >>>>> (implement) a flock. It's not mysterious. We know how it works. >>>>> >>>>> That's all emergence is: coordinated or consistent actions among >>>>> a number of elements that result in the formation and persistence >>>>> of some aggregate entity or phenomenon. >>>>> >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>> >>>> ============================================================ >>>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>>> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >>>> >>> >>> >>> ============================================================ >>> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >>> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >>> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >>> >>> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> >> > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > -- Doug Roberts [email protected] [email protected] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell
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