It seems much more sensible to me that bottom-up emergence and top-down divergence are poles of a continuum of trans-causal interaction. I would assume that there is also center-out and periphery-in interaction, as well as other kinds of harmonic chords of coincident entanglement/disentanglement. That the universe could be strictly bottom up causality is absurd to me - as absurd as the idea of letters of the alphabet learning to read, but at the same time, it makes perfect sense to me that every view of the universe, including the bottom-up emergentist view, is presented in its most coherent light when reflecting its most favorable attention. Every view of the universe can make a tremendous amount of sense, given genuine interest in it.
On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 7:47:57 AM UTC-4, Alberto G.Corona wrote: > > Emergence means that the higher level is idependent of the substrate > and produce effects in the substrate. That means that once emerged, it > does not matter if is the result off a darwinian process, a numeric > simulation or an intelligent design, it is as it is and start to work > with their own rules, influencing above and below it. > > http://www.mth.uct.ac.za/~ellis/nature.pdf > > > > -- > Alberto. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
