Of course. Sorry for *hiding* it. But when I said one "changing color" isn't different from another "changing color", I was focusing on color changes. That's why I said the full clause "changing color" after both examples. I'm sorry for not trying to make that more clear... maybe all caps ... or asterisks.
On 5/13/20 8:22 AM, Steven A Smith wrote: > I will niggle at your statement that "there is no behavioral difference > between celery changing color and a paper towel changing color" though I > accept that the (more) interesting distinction is between the mechanisms > in each. Replace your celery stalk with a giant sequoia and make your > paper towel roll equally tall, and maybe you sense my issue. By > observing the (behavioural) difference between the sequoia's leaves > taking up fuscia dye at it's crown and the paper towel roll only taking > it up a few meters high (postulate a waterproof and very strong > core-roll to keep it from sagging/breaking with the added weight), we > might *then* impute that their dyed-water uptake is based on differing > mechanisms. At this scale/context of observation, I think the > *mechanism* (or it's behaviour) is hidden whilst the > macro-(quantitatively and qualitatively?) behaviour is exposed (visible). -- ☣ 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/