Gregg:
Fascinating. I love this backstory. I enjoyed his push and pull with Steven Pinker and how he upset the dogmas of the times. It’s a tough world hypothesizing and then suffering the slings and arrows of the prevailing thought. I just loved the guy.
I got to him via the TigerToons connections and his Alabama football fanship. Add to that my connection to another EO, my mentor, Edwin O’Neal Timmons, who happened to get his undergraduate in Psychology at Auburn and he was too curious.
I sent him something like this:
I lost track of his email. It changed and I didn’t get an update. He didn’t need to be bothered by me anyway.
Special fellow. I will seek out the book.
Thanks Greg
My best to you,
Tom Sylvest, Jr.
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> On Sep 4, 2020, at 10:35 AM, Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Thanks, Tom.
>
> Interesting back story with Wilson. As I mentioned in the Tour of the Garden <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__drive.google.com_file_d_1UZxTW9M4qTvYm8yyLj8VnUlnZjbI-5Fpml_view-3Fusp-3Dsharing&d=DwIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=877ZUTDagl_rK7rktbF0Hxg-qJ9wIbQjRN2NacYGmZ0&s=EtTy-RBQ8-GYoR1oa1XsVeeBOFs_ZBbvAJlVcVHyWNU&e= > presentation, I had generated the ToK System vision a year prior to Consilience coming out. I tried to reach out to him. Indeed, for an X-mas gift my Dad offered him $1000 for an hour of his time in 1999 to look at my work. He replied briefly, declining and saying he would “reply when it is in print”. Well, I did publish a special issue in 2008 that compares and contrasts our views <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.gregghenriques.com_uploads_2_4_3_6_24368778_henriques-5Fppihk-5F-5F1-5F.pdf&d=DwIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=877ZUTDagl_rK7rktbF0Hxg-qJ9wIbQjRN2NacYGmZ0&s=hZDP5_YGFRNyN2HfyP92Gq8uVKAGAopCL_XwtiVBhvQ&e= >, but alas, went I followed up I did not get a reply.
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> Anyway, given your behavioral background, if you have not seen it, I strongly recommend you checking out this book by Naour on the exchanges between Wilson and Skinner <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.amazon.com_Wilson-2DB-2DF-2DSkinner-2DSociobiology-2DDevelopments-2Debook_dp_B008BBJFG0&d=DwIFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=877ZUTDagl_rK7rktbF0Hxg-qJ9wIbQjRN2NacYGmZ0&s=SyleTZoBd_0JozXw45_K_PnYScCPvgx6qAYpdENVCFI&e= >. It makes very clear, exactly as the ToK System posits, that we should think of operant theory as being more fundamental than sociobiology, as the latter is about the behavior of animals in groups, and the former is about the fundamental complexity building feedback loop that makes animal/mental behavior so unique in the cosmos.
>
> Warm regards,
> Gregg
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> From: tree of knowledge system discussion <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> On Behalf Of Tom Sylvest
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> Wow! You mentioned E. O. Wilson…. Man oh, man. He’s among my most favorite down to earth, but Big Think people on the planet. I had the pleasure of exchanging emails years ago with that rotten Alabama fan.
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> Good memories.
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> My best to you,
> Tom Sylvest, Jr.
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> On Sep 4, 2020, at 9:36 AM, Henriques, Gregg - henriqgx <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
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> Hi TOK List,
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> I put this blog up today: What Is the Unified Theory Of Knowledge? <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.psychologytoday.com_us_blog_theory-2Dknowledge_202009_what-2Dis-2Dthe-2Dunified-2Dtheory-2Dknowledge&d=DwMFaQ&c=eLbWYnpnzycBCgmb7vCI4uqNEB9RSjOdn_5nBEmmeq0&r=HPo1IXYDhKClogP-UOpybo6Cfxxz-jIYBgjO2gOz4-A&m=PARiX1leD8L2DDIaF8Txe6l_xD4_7r6Xo6NsaH5AeQk&s=51eyezwPgOqf24drfIEWGq7S8IUM4ExUS54wStAwA9E&e=>
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> Tries to give a succinct, clear, assertive view of the UTOK and what it affords us.
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> Best,
> Gregg
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