it is because of references like these that I like to lurk on lists like this one.
thank you, Joost. On Dec 30, 2007, at 1:11 AM, Russell Standish wrote: > From what I > understand, things like the SCL artificial chemistry (which is > definitely a type of machine) is closed to efficient causation in > Rosen's sense, ------------------------------------------- Joost Rekveld ----------- http://www.lumen.nu/rekveld ------------------------------------------- “This alone I ask you, O reader, that when you peruse the account of these marvels that you do not set up for yourself as a standard human intellectual pride, but rather the great size and vastness of earth and sky; and, comparing with that Infinity these slender shadows in which miserably and anxiously we are enveloped, you will easily know that I have related nothing which is beyond belief.” (Girolamo Cardano) ------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org