If an apophany is arises from abnormal overfitting of environmental information, perhaps a necessary but not sufficient condition to an epiphany is psychopathy? A bold motivational driver toward a hypothesis and experiment. :-)
-----Original Message----- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2016 3:05 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Tagged "Get off my lawn!" Very nice! I wish I were a bit more able to stockpile either cash or attention. I'm a bit too impulsive for either. I do make an attempt at logging "ideas worth pursuing". I even prioritize them to some extent. But my process has always depended on "more than one motivation" to pursue any given subject. I.e. I don't invest deeply in anything until it's reinforced by lots of nudges/patterns. Hence my apophenia, which turns out to be motivated reasoning. On 05/11/2016 11:08 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > If anything I'm more breadth oriented than I used to be. It's more a like a > cash flow thing. I know I'll have to jettison a lot of attention and > short/medium term memory to do depth, and so I try to find opportunities to > schedule the attention in batch. As a young person, I'd run out of cash, so > to speak, and be in a world of hurt. Now I collect a nice pile of cash, > figuratively and literally, before jumping in. The ongoing negotiation > with the people around me gets replaced with what amounts to a monetary > transaction to keep them at a bay for a while. Knuth (or some favorite > novelist, etc.), in contrast, had such a giant pile of (intellectual) cash he > could keep people at bay, period. The "reflexes" are no worse, from age, > and maybe better, but I'm not going to work 30 hours straight anymore because > that's just stupid. -- ⛧ glen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
