I DID misunderstand the force of the duck. Sorry. I retire from the field in my usual disarray.
N Nicholas Thompson Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology Clark University thompnicks...@gmail.com https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ -----Original Message----- From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of u?l? ? Sent: Monday, April 20, 2020 3:19 PM To: FriAM <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] IS: "...useful". WAS:: whackadoodles go mainstream! This is useful: https://www.tor.com/2011/06/29/the-pooping-duck-marvel-of-18th-century-robotics/ > But what really fascinates me about all this is Wood’s suggestion for WHY a > man of Vaucanson’s genius was so enthralled by mechanical duck defecation. In > addition to proving both popular and lucrative (it scored him a gig designing > looms for the King of France), Vaucanson was a man of troubled bowels. As for distinguishing between one ideal Peirce and another ideal Peirce, I have time, but regard that as a useless thing to do. Ideals are great time wasters. I'd rather choose 1 thing Peirce did and try to use it. I've long wanted to try to use existential graphs, for example. On 4/20/20 2:09 PM, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote: > So, Peirce had many ideas of Peirce and we could be in love with different > ones. > > Do you have time to distinguish between your idea of Pierce and My idea of > Peirce as regards the digestion of metal ducks? > > I am realizing the problem might be with my understanding of the metal duck > example. I took at as a kind of cranky, idiosyncratic project, like my > desire to take apart a 25 year old fm radio and get it working again. You > might have meant it in a much more profound sense, a sense in which you use > your study of the digestion of metal ducks as a part of a systematic inquiry > into the nature of life. In that case, you are right, Peirce would > definitely have approved and I have slandered you both. -- ☣ uǝlƃ .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... .... . ... 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/ .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... .... . ... 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/
