Re: [FRIAM] Why depth/thickness matters

2017-02-08 Thread Nick Thompson
All, I am throwing this in so Eric C. will chew on it when he chews on S.G.’s point. For a proper PRAGMATIST, the question is not whether an understanding corresponds to some ephemeral external reality; the question is whether it proves out in future experience. When state engineers

Re: [FRIAM] Santa Fe Folks : Recycling Carts

2017-02-08 Thread Nick Thompson
Owen, Provincial is one thing; unintelligible to someone who lives a half a mile down the hill is quite another! Can you translate this for me? Really? No glass? And cardboard in two places? I didn’t understand about the St. Johns Site. Are we all honorary neighbors of St. Joh

Re: [FRIAM] Why depth/thickness matters

2017-02-08 Thread Stephen Guerin
The opening of this article would be a complete counter position for an Ecological Psychologist: "Students of perception often claim that perception, in general, estimates the truth. They argue that creatures whose perceptions are more true are also, thereby, more fit. Therefore, due to natural

[FRIAM] Santa Fe Folks : Recycling Carts

2017-02-08 Thread Owen Densmore
Sorry to be provincial, but though this Nextdoor announcement might be useful to locals: https://saintjohnscollege.nextdoor.com/news_feed/?post=42343475&s=&is=npe&ct=36sdSlzeamiOJxqMpMbqLEaAP7xgpM6cPRR3uQT0Nhf_8cXKwaSt4syinUd_MMl4&mobile_deeplink_data=action%3Dview_post%26post%3D42343475&link_sour

[FRIAM] Why depth/thickness matters

2017-02-08 Thread glen ☣
Natural selection and veridical perceptions Justin T. Mark, Brian B. Marion, Donald D. Hoffman http://cogsci.uci.edu/~ddhoff/PerceptualEvolution.pdf > For the weak type, X ⊄ W in general, and g is a homomorphism. Perception need > not faithfully mirror any subset of reality, but relationsh

Re: [FRIAM] HELPING RESEARCH GATE TO FULFILL ITS PROMISE by Nicholas Simonds Thompson - Research Project on ResearchGate

2017-02-08 Thread Nick Thompson
I will. Thanks, Russ. I think the sooner R.G. gets clear about its goals, the better off they will be. There is all sorts of foundation money out there for the sort of thing they are doing. Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University

Re: [FRIAM] HELPING RESEARCH GATE TO FULFILL ITS PROMISE by Nicholas Simonds Thompson - Research Project on ResearchGate

2017-02-08 Thread glen ☣
Thanks Russ! I appreciate the integration with github, too. On 02/08/2017 08:16 AM, Russ Abbott wrote: > ResearchGate and Academia are both privately funded and operated. An > alternative is Zenodo , run by CERN. It's a paper > archive like Archive.org. It doesn't support CV

Re: [FRIAM] HELPING RESEARCH GATE TO FULFILL ITS PROMISE by Nicholas Simonds Thompson - Research Project on ResearchGate

2017-02-08 Thread Russ Abbott
ResearchGate and Academia are both privately funded and operated. An alternative is Zenodo , run by CERN. It's a paper archive like Archive.org. It doesn't support CVs -- at least at this point. They don't seem to have any plan to do so. You may want to check it out. On Tue, F

Re: [FRIAM] loopiness (again)

2017-02-08 Thread Marcus Daniels
Yuck. < We should probably all practice saying, “There’s no evidence for that, but the important thing is … ” and “Well, I disagree, but let’s say you’re right. What about … ” without ch