From: "jeffrey E." <jeevacation®gmail.com> To: Misha Gromov Subject: Re: Date: Sun, 31 Jul2016 14:38:19 +0000 understood. . however what i like is the concept of pressure . says nothing at all about any one molecule , but gives useful information re the statistical. I wonder if people are more like the individual molecule and only looking at the statistical overview may give some info. the term social being, means part of a group. . left isolated the indiv cannot thrive. the study of groups of individuals , actuarial tables etc. seems useful. but only at the boundary s of certainty or zero. does it say anything meaningful about any single person. On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Misha Gromov an wrote: mechanism -- something as sophisticated as Watt's pressure regulator On Sun, 31 Jul2016 10:21:09 -0400, jeffrey E. wrote: the word mechanism gives me pause, - it relates so much to the industrial revolution where evrything and everyone can be thought of as a machine. the concept of hope. for example . or even the idea of " concepts". in general do not appear to me to lend themselves to mechanics. . is probability a " mechanism " . ? On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 9:27 AM, Misha Gromov a wrote: On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 09:19:31 -0400, jeffrey E. wrote: yes , or in paris if i come earlier. what are you working on? do you think there is any fundamental reason why biology has not opened its mysteries to mathematics? Possibly, he consistency of the failures of the attempts of making conceptual math-biology points toward at interesting psycological mechanism generating the strive to achieve it. On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 9:15 AM, Misha Gromov a wrote: in NY? On Sun, 31 Jul 2016 08:57:03 -0400, jeffrey E. wrote: if one looks at probabilty distributions. it could appear that the curve is a result of being acted on by a pseu force. pushing agents towards the center. the activity of change more along the curve ( membrane ) one agent moves up the other down so