Re: Two Types of Creative Thinkers

MF: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/8650
GR: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/8651
JA: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/8687
KM: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/8700
GR: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.philosophy.peirce/8702

JA: I often wonder that more people do not avail themselves of the power of Peirce's thought.
     "What are they afraid of?" I ask myself.  I find myself asking it that way because there
     really does seem to be a persistent obstruction or a positive refusal to take that extra
     step up to the level of 3-adic thinking.

GR: I often wonder this too.  And it's not just "a persistent obstruction
     or a positive refusal," but occasionally a downright hostility to
     triadic thinking, as if it represented some sort of crime against
     contemporary science.  Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than
     in the biosemiotic community -- and contra John Collier, who
     recently remarked here that biosemiotics is "mainly Peircean" --
     where, when attending the international conference in NYC a
     couple of years ago, it seemed to me that code semiotics
     (Soren Brier's expression for dyadic semiotics in that
     field) dominated the conversation, indeed, the entire
     'scene'.  But, I did not attend this year's gathering,
     and nothing could please me more than to be proved
     wrong in this assessment.

Gary,

Fear and hostility are customary companions, so often locked within
the thralls of mutually regenerative waves of pain, no doubt due to
their common ancestry in the genealogy of the less pleasant affects.

My experience of "contemporary science" may be different from others,
though I'm sure it seemed to cohere well enough with the experiences
of my contemporaries, at least so far as we took occasion to compare
notes on the scene.  Growing up with an interest in math and science,
just two peas in a pod in a garden chock full of fascinating flowers,
I had my feet planted firmly enough on that soil before I chanced on
the subplots seeded by our constant gardener, Charles Sanders Peirce.
And there I found nothing alien to the rest, but only what seemed to
constitute the forerunning rhizomes of a host of later ramifications.
So I wonder at the need to deny, if not paternity in a literal sense,
then prophecy at least, and the potential for untapped insights more.

Regards,

Jon

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