No problem. The question for any good science of emergence is often whether you're mad enough! Emergence is something we notice as the 'madness' of nature herself, in doing things without having a prior rule to follow, after all. The emergence question I was raising in response to Nick's question was about the emergence of contradictions in science. We tolerate accumulations of them, and may make individual adjustments to theory as we go, but then may get to an impasse and be forced to expand our thinking in a more general way occasionally. It may have been a little off point as I didn't have the prior reference, and as Owen's response seemed to be more direct.
I think you guys generally don't take me seriously because you don't see the problems my work is a response to. I find emergence far more comprehendible when treating time as an accumulative processes of change rather than as a line of points on a scale projected by an equation, a process rather than a location. That makes me also drop the idea that any physical process is composed of our information about it. Physical things are generally ever so much richer in features than any form of information could ever replace. That's why I need to refer to the individual developments of systems themselves as what my techniques is designed to shed light on , identified as developmental events with key information pointers for where to look their functional organization. Phil From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 3:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Young but distant gallaxies My apologies to Phil. My e-mail was intended only for Jack L. Paul ************** It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047)
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