Glen - I'm in the midst (early part) of Judea Pearl's "Book of Why".
I had a vague memory of his earlier book: "Causality" having been referenced if not discussed on this list. Searching the archives, I discovered what I considered to be quite a Pearl (NPI) circa 2013. In this long chain, you recommended Pearl's "Causality" which I now wish I had followed up on then. http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/beyond-reductionism-twice-td7582273i20.html#a7582308 Among the many gems in the thread were the voices of two of our deceased members, Doug Roberts and Tory Hughes. Doug coined one of his classic lines about (paraphrase) "being violently disinterested in the philosophy of causation" (or complexity or agent-based-model-design). After Nick's recent "violent disinterest in the Cult of Feynman" and in particular to any quote that might imply that birds are (paraphrase) "not first-class-citizens who would in fact be interested in ornithology, if they were given access to it", my eyes caught on your own quote (in 2013) of S. Ulam: "Talking about non-linear mathematics is like talking about non-elephant zoology." -- Stanislaw Ulam - Steve (176) >> Unfortunately, after a couple of attempts to read it, I couldn't understand >> anything in your post except this part. My previous post was just under 300 >> words. So, I decided to try to make the next one under that mark as well. >> >> On 4/18/20 1:22 PM, Steven A Smith wrote: >>> From whence (or wherest?) did you get your 300 word target? > you might not be alone in that... perhaps it was just gibberish. And likely > more than three hundred words of it. > > > .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... > .... . ... > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
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