Re: [FRIAM] List of Unsolved Problems in Psychology

[Carl Tollander]

If you're going to talk about the brain, you need to pause slightly 
before you say it,
then turn your head a degree or two, lift your chin slightly, look nobly 
into the distance,
and say it in quotes.  "the brain". Suddenly someone stands, we 
all raise our glasses,
and they say, "Gentlemen, The Brain!",   and we all go "The Brain!" 
,"here, here!".


So, there's a lot of reverence for, "the brain"in terms of 
talking about behavior.
As I chug along and think about things like learning and making music, 
there's some
concern that many of the things I care about these days happen as
"the brain" outsources

to other plexi, and how those plexi outsource on out from, say
the brachial plexus to (say) the wrists.I don't think we really have 
a good handle on how
this happens, whether it's a developmental thing or whether it is 
something that it is reasonable to

think that "the brain" 'does'.

On 5/30/12 4:24 PM, Jochen Fromm wrote:


Hi Nick,

I went to the library today and picked up a standard textbook
about psychology (Drew Westen, "Psychology", Wiley, 2002).
Then I selected the most interesting questions from
all the central questions I found. Which are already
answered and which are largely unsolved?

A) (neuroscience) The brain-behavior relationship
To what extend can we understand psychological
processes by events in the brain? To what extend
can we understand them without references to events
in the brain?

B) (social psychology) The individual-group relationship
To what extend does behavior depend on the groups
of which people are a part? To what extend can we
understand it in isolation?

C) (philosophy) The mind-body relationship
If thought and matter are fundamentally different,
how can they have anything to do with one another,
and how can they interact at all?

D) (biology) The nature-nature relationship
To what extend are perceptual processes born or
learned? Is our knowledge of the world stamped into
us or woven together by us? How does emotion
guide behavior in adaptive ways?

There is also the famous hard problem - can we
understand subjective experience - and the
other basic psychology questions like
"what are the basic elements of personality"
(how do we define personality, to what extend
is it stable over time and across situations, etc.).

What do you think is the most interesting
unsolved problem or question? Which is
perhaps best suited for new forms of
modeling (say ABM or NKS models) ?

Jochen


Am 17.05.2012 02:37, schrieb Nicholas Thompson:
Here's a game we could play for a while, and see where we get: You 
state a problem in psychology, and I will try to tell you whether it 
has been solved or not. 




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Re: [FRIAM] The Climate Fixers May 14 New Yorker

[Carl Tollander]

I think it was called "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea".   Theodore 
Sturgeon.   I recall there were giant squid.


On 5/30/12 9:01 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:


I found the article horrifying.  Is anybody old enough to remember a 
sixties research project with a cute name which centered around a long 
running debate concerning whether setting off an abomb in the upper 
atmosphere would obliterate the vanallen belts, destroy the ozone 
layer, or just set the atmosphere on fire.  They couldn't be sure 
theoretically, so they had to try it to see.  It didn't.


These people cannot be trusted.

*From:*friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] 
*On Behalf Of *Paul Paryski

*Sent:* Tuesday, May 29, 2012 3:33 PM
*To:* friam@redfish.com
*Subject:* [FRIAM] The Climate Fixers May 14 New Yorker

I submitted a letter (see below) to the editor of the New Yorker about 
Michael Specter's excellent May 14th article on technical solutions to 
global warming.


Any comments?

cheers, Paul

-Original Message-
From: Paul Paryski mailto:ppary...@aol.com>>
To: themail mailto:them...@newyorker.com>>
Sent: Tue, May 29, 2012 1:28 pm
Subject: The Climate Fixers May 14

Dear Sirs,

Thank you for publishing Michael Specter's excellent and informative 
article on technical solutions to global warming which is, I believe, 
probably the most important challenge to our species and, indeed, 
other species. As a former chief technical advisor on environmental 
governance for the United Nations Development Programme I have 
followed climate change and anthropogenic global warming issues very 
closely primarily through the IPCC.


The Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering project 
is particularly (no pun intended) interesting and thought provoking 
even with its inherent, ecological, environmental and political risks. 
I wonder if another approach to particle injection might be adding 
certain reflective particles to aviation fuels.  Such a solution would 
be much less costly than a twelve-mile long pipe held aloft by a 
balloon and assure global dispersion at smaller densities.


Of course, there are many who believe mistakenly that our government 
is already adding chemicals to jet fuel creating "chemtrails".


Paul Paryski

Santa Fe, New Mexico




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Re: [FRIAM] The Climate Fixers May 14 New Yorker

[Nicholas Thompson]

I found the article horrifying.  Is anybody old enough to remember a sixties 
research project with a cute name which centered around a long running debate 
concerning whether setting off an abomb in the upper atmosphere would 
obliterate the vanallen belts, destroy the ozone layer, or just set the 
atmosphere on fire.  They couldn’t be sure theoretically, so they had to try it 
to see.  It didn’t. 

 

These people cannot be trusted.  

 

From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of 
Paul Paryski
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 3:33 PM
To: friam@redfish.com
Subject: [FRIAM] The Climate Fixers May 14 New Yorker

 

I submitted a letter (see below) to the editor of the New Yorker about Michael 
Specter's excellent May 14th article on technical solutions to global warming. 

 

Any comments?

cheers, Paul



-Original Message-
From: Paul Paryski 
To: themail 
Sent: Tue, May 29, 2012 1:28 pm
Subject: The Climate Fixers May 14

Dear Sirs, 

 

Thank you for publishing Michael Specter’s excellent and informative article on 
technical solutions to global warming which is, I believe, probably the most 
important challenge to our species and, indeed, other species. As a former 
chief technical advisor on environmental governance for the United Nations 
Development Programme I have followed climate change and anthropogenic global 
warming issues very closely primarily through the IPCC.

 

The Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering project is 
particularly (no pun intended) interesting and thought provoking even with its 
inherent, ecological, environmental and political risks. I wonder if another 
approach to particle injection might be adding certain reflective particles to 
aviation fuels.  Such a solution would be much less costly than a twelve-mile 
long pipe held aloft by a balloon and assure global dispersion at smaller 
densities.  

 

Of course, there are many who believe mistakenly that our government is already 
adding chemicals to jet fuel creating “chemtrails”. 

 

Paul Paryski

Santa Fe, New Mexico


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[FRIAM] List of Unsolved Problems in Psychology

[Jochen Fromm]

Hi Nick,

I went to the library today and picked up a standard textbook
about psychology (Drew Westen, "Psychology", Wiley, 2002).
Then I selected the most interesting questions from
all the central questions I found. Which are already
answered and which are largely unsolved?

A) (neuroscience) The brain-behavior relationship
To what extend can we understand psychological
processes by events in the brain? To what extend
can we understand them without references to events
in the brain?

B) (social psychology) The individual-group relationship
To what extend does behavior depend on the groups
of which people are a part? To what extend can we
understand it in isolation?

C) (philosophy) The mind-body relationship
If thought and matter are fundamentally different,
how can they have anything to do with one another,
and how can they interact at all?

D) (biology) The nature-nature relationship
To what extend are perceptual processes born or
learned? Is our knowledge of the world stamped into
us or woven together by us? How does emotion
guide behavior in adaptive ways?

There is also the famous hard problem - can we
understand subjective experience - and the
other basic psychology questions like
"what are the basic elements of personality"
(how do we define personality, to what extend
is it stable over time and across situations, etc.).

What do you think is the most interesting
unsolved problem or question? Which is
perhaps best suited for new forms of
modeling (say ABM or NKS models) ?

Jochen


Am 17.05.2012 02:37, schrieb Nicholas Thompson:
Here's a game we could play for a while, and see where we get: You 
state a problem in psychology, and I will try to tell you whether it 
has been solved or not. 




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Re: [FRIAM] SF Complex closing this Friday. Final event celebration and Thank You to the Santa Fe community

[Nicholas Thompson]

Steve, 

 

I am sorry I cannot be there. I am in the bog.  Santa Fe should be grateful
for what you-all have accomplished in this time.  I look forward to your
next re-incarnation, whatever it might be.  

 

Hugs all around, 

 

Nick 

 

From: friam-boun...@redfish.com [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf
Of Stephen Guerin
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 3:37 AM
To: General topics & issues; Friam Friam
Subject: [FRIAM] SF Complex closing this Friday. Final event celebration and
Thank You to the Santa Fe community

 

Santa Fe Complex Community,

 

This Friday will be the final event at Santa Fe Complex. We plan to go out
with a strong Thank You celebration to the Santa Fe community for its
support over our last 4 years! 

 

Please come out this Fri June 1 from 6p-10p for two great two simultaneous
shows: 

*   CIRE's one year birthday bash (see
http://sfcomplex.org/2012/05/cires-birthday-bash); and 
*   the closing event of the fantastic Ghost in Armour show curated by
friends of SF_X, Matt Wright and Janire Nájera (see
http://sfcomplex.org/2012/04/ghosts-in-armour-2). 

To get a preview of the Ghost in Armour show, check out this video of last
Friday's opening:

 Inline image 1
 

 

http://vimeo.com/42981129

After the City pulled funding in March, SF_X received a critical surge of
volunteer effort to make our final events happen. Thank you especially to
Steve Smith, Alanna Herrera, Stephen Bohannon and Jason Goodyear for these
efforts!

 

Again, please come out this Friday and help us celebrate SF_X community
members pushing the envelope in exciting creative directions over our
organization's lifetime. 

 

In appreciation,

 

Stephen Guerin

 

-- 
___
step...@sfcomplex.org

mobile: 505.577.5828

Board Chairperson, Santa Fe Complex

1807 Second Street, Suite 107

Santa Fe, NM 87505

 

for events and workshops, check out http://www.sfcomplex.org

sign up for newsletters and join the discussion list

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Re: [FRIAM] re diagnosis

[Dean Gerber]

To Sarah'

You have probably already done this, but if not please go to a board certified 
Rheumatologist at good hospital or Medical Center.  There have been many 
advances in treatment in recent years, and a medically sound diagnosis is 
essential, as is the advice and treatment options offered by the practice of 
modern medicine.  Follow this with alternative advice and approaches if you 
wish, but even here a modern and well trained and certified rheumatologist can 
offer guidance.  Best wishes and good luck ... Dean Gerber



 From: peggy miller 
To: friam@redfish.com 
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2012 1:23 PM
Subject: [FRIAM] re diagnosis
 

To Sarah -- go see a Chinese/Ayurvedic Medicinal Herbalist. There are ways to 
help your arthritis besides just computer aids! Seriously. Peggy

-- 

Miss Peggy Miller, owner/OEO 
Highland Winds
wix.com/peggymiller/highlandwinds
Art Studio/HerbShop is at 1520 S. 7th St. W. (Just off Russell, four blocks 
from Good Food Store)

406-541-7577 (home/office/studio shop)
Shop Hours: Wed: 11-6
   Thurs:  3-8 pm
   Fri-Sat: 11 am -6pm
Herbal Consults during studio shop hours and also on Tuesdays.



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[FRIAM] re diagnosis

[peggy miller]

To Sarah -- go see a Chinese/Ayurvedic Medicinal Herbalist. There are ways
to help your arthritis besides just computer aids! Seriously. Peggy

-- 
Miss Peggy Miller, owner/OEO
Highland Winds
wix.com/peggymiller/highlandwinds
Art Studio/HerbShop is at 1520 S. 7th St. W. (Just off Russell, four blocks
from Good Food Store)
406-541-7577 (home/office/studio shop)
Shop Hours: Wed: 11-6
   Thurs:  3-8 pm
   Fri-Sat: 11 am -6pm
Herbal Consults during studio shop hours and also on Tuesdays.

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Re: [FRIAM] wireless hotspot help!

[Douglas Roberts]

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:12 AM, Nicholas Thompson <
nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote:

> I am struggling with my new MIFI box from Verizon and I am wondering if
> there is a standard download/upload task  I can give it to see if I am
> actually getting faster service than through dial up. It feels AWFULLY slow
> right now.   I am in the mosquito infested bog in massashusetts about 3
> miles from a tower, but just abit around the corner of a hill. 
>
> ** **
>
> Nick 
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> Nicholas S. Thompson
>
> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
>
> Clark University
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
>
> http://www.cusf.org
>
> ** **
>
> ** **
>
> 
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[FRIAM] wireless hotspot help!

[Nicholas Thompson]

I am struggling with my new MIFI box from Verizon and I am wondering if
there is a standard download/upload task  I can give it to see if I am
actually getting faster service than through dial up. It feels AWFULLY slow
right now.   I am in the mosquito infested bog in massashusetts about 3
miles from a tower, but just abit around the corner of a hill. 

 

Nick 

 

 

 

Nicholas S. Thompson

Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology

Clark University

http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/

http://www.cusf.org  

 

 


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[FRIAM] SF Complex closing this Friday. Final event celebration and Thank You to the Santa Fe community

[Stephen Guerin]

Santa Fe Complex Community,

This Friday will be the final event at Santa Fe Complex. We plan to go out
with a strong Thank You celebration to the Santa Fe community for its
support over our last 4 years!

Please come out this Fri June 1 from 6p-10p for two great two simultaneous
shows:

   - CIRE's one year birthday bash (see
   http://sfcomplex.org/2012/05/cires-birthday-bash); and
   - the closing event of the fantastic *Ghost in Armour* show curated by
   friends of SF_X, Matt Wright and Janire Nájera (see
   http://sfcomplex.org/2012/04/ghosts-in-armour-2).

   To get a preview of the Ghost in Armour show, check out this video of
   last Friday's opening:

   [image: Inline image 1]

   http://vimeo.com/42981129

After the City pulled funding in March, SF_X received a critical surge of
volunteer effort to make our final events happen. Thank you especially to
Steve Smith, Alanna Herrera, Stephen Bohannon and Jason Goodyear for these
efforts!

Again, please come out this Friday and help us celebrate SF_X community
members pushing the envelope in exciting creative directions over our
organization's lifetime.

In appreciation,

Stephen Guerin

-- 
___
step...@sfcomplex.org
mobile: 505.577.5828
Board Chairperson, Santa Fe Complex
1807 Second Street, Suite 107
Santa Fe, NM 87505

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