Re: the *need* to reduce -- This post comes to mind: Richard Dawkins Claims Eugenics Works. He’s Wrong. https://skepchick.org/2020/02/richard-dawkins-claims-eugenics-works-hes-wrong/ > You can’t get a lot of attention by talking about them 280 characters at a > time on Twitter.
Even though she's using reduction to point out that over-reducers like Dawkins use the tool for Evil, other over-reducers like Bernie Sanders, use over-reduction for Good. But tools can be used for Good or Evil. That they're used for one or the other does not refute the *need* for them. Sometimes things *must* be over-reduced in order to make some decision and to avoid the implicit decision of making no decision. But your larger point is well-taken. Sometimes, the full swath of (high dimensional) exploratory search is more appropriate than low-dimensional reducing collectivism of exploitation. But when and how do we force the system into an anarchist mode of exploration? On 2/20/20 10:07 AM, Steven A Smith wrote: > What *of* a more > sophisticated dimensional analysis (as Marcus put the name on it) of our > sociopolitics? Are we really (individually and collectively) that dumb > that we can only think (or at least argue) in one dimension? Or is it > in the best interest of "the powers that be" that we remain confined to > that (over)simplification of "life, the universe and everything"? > > Trump has tumbled the Republican party off-axis in a certain way and > seems to have found another somewhat stable mode which paradoxically may > have actually created the conditions for Bernie (and Elizabeth to a > lesser extent) to tumble the Democrats into yet-another stable spin. > Or to extend the metaphor, has he just "tumbled our gyros" in a way that > will never recover? Maybe it is time to quit watching the artificial > horizon (polling, punditry, ???), look out the window and recover "by > the seat of our pants"? -- ☣ uǝlƃ ============================================================ 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 archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove