I'm still waiting for your account of biosemiotics. From what I've found
on the web, it looks like crackpot mystical pseudoscience to me.
Once again, my EMERGENCE BLOG:
http://www.autodidactproject.org/my/emergence-blog.html
As for current objectives, one ought to consider refining one's tools
Gould's statement that punctuated equilibrium is a form of dialectic is
good.
I think Gould's emphatically rejects something that is not dialectics.
Dialectics is _not_ that all change is punctuated. It is that change is both
equilibriated or gradual _and_ punctuated. Dialectics does not fail
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1883/don/
Frederick Engels (1883)
Dialectics of Nature
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Table of Contents
Preface
Dialectics of Nature. Frederick Engels (1883)
1. INTRODUCTION
MODERN natural science, which alone has achieved an all-round systematic and
scientific development, as contrasted with the brilliant
natural-philosophical intuitions of antiquity and the extremely important
but sporadic discoveries
Note: Engels sort of one sentence definition of dialectics is the science
of interconnections. Most discussions of dialectics don't even mention this
emphasis, rather quantity to quality to quantity, contradiction, change are
emphasized.
CB
Engels' Dialectics of Nature
II. Dialectics
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* My question is how does heating water to a boiling point change the
quality
of water rather than its form?
I agree that the form of a thing can change in front of its constituent
parts. What quality of H2O has changed?
^
CB: I think there is a problem with
Engels gives an impressive historical overview. Of great interest is the
relationship between the advances in science and the overall legitimating
philosophy--deism or French materialism. This illustrates a subtlety often
lacking in such discussions.
At 09:36 AM 3/9/2005 -0500, Charles Brown
Ralph Dumain :
These quotes are all fine, and show these authors at their best. The issue
is, however, developing the logical precision to analyze specific
phenomena. As expressed, these are all general thematic principles, which
do not function well merely as being quoted chapter and
At 10:28 AM 3/9/2005 -0800, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
--- Ralph Dumain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't speak to THE DIALECTICAL BIOLOGIST, as I
haven't read it, though it
is gathering dust somewhere. The Dialectics of
Biology group produced a
couple of interesting books, mostly without
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