From Tom Bourbon [920825 -- pre-Alexander time]
Since I posted my message about the loss of funds at the lab, a
number of you have responded with offers of (moral) support and a
few have offered direct suggestions about employment, research
funds and the like. Thanks, to all of you.
Yesterday, we learned that our salaries will continue for another
three months. A bit of room to breathe.
I had wanted to jump into some of the discussion about "leaning
on the world" -- is that a round about way of saying that tha actions
of an organism combine with independent influences in the environment, so
that the organism need only, indeed can only, add a small influence to
what is going on? In that case, the nature of the controller becomes
critical. Do the authors of work about "leaning on the world" address
the nature of how control is achieved under those conditions?
I would say more, but hurricane Alexander is on the way to our
island paradise, or so it seems as of the latest advisory. I am,
as they say, outa here!
Tom Bourbon