It's in Cosmides and Tooby, THE ADAPTED MIND. When you find my damned copy, send it back to me.
Nick -----Original Message----- >From: lrudo...@meganet.net >Sent: Jul 18, 2010 6:21 AM >To: Russell Standish <r.stand...@unsw.edu.au>, friam@redfish.com >Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Entropic force > >> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 08:57:42PM -0400, lrudo...@meganet.net wrote: >> > >> > Shephard points out (in his paper speculating on why >> > humans have a 3D color space) that for terrestrial >> > animals (at least, ones that live above the scale >> > where things like surface tension of water and >> > viscosity of the atmosphere are big deals in daily >> > life), the vertical axis defined by gravity is >> > highly salient. What, we may ask, would a porpoise >> > or a porgy make of your photo? >> > >> > Lee Rudolph >> > >> >> This seems to be a non-sequitur. Most mammals have a 2D colour >> space. Many birds (and a few rare humans, so called "tetrachromats") >> have a 4D colour space. What possible connection could it have with >> the spatial dimension? > >I was referencing where I read it. I don't recall that >it was part of his color-space argument; it was (probably) >an interesting digression. (Thank goodness discussions >on mailing lists never include digressions!) If I can >find my copy (originally Nick's spare copy...) of the >book it's in, I'll check later and try to get back with >whatever I find. > >============================================================ >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 PS --Please if using the address nickthomp...@earthlink.net to reply, cc your message to nthomp...@clarku.edu. Thanks. ============================================================ 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
