Unless you can tell me why I'm wrong, I will continue to claim that I've solved the problems of emergence and reductionism in "The reductionist blind spot <http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/archive/00004540/>." (Yes, it's an audacious claim.) You are welcome to look elsewhere of course, but that paper is a significant advance beyond anything in the literature including Cartwright, Miller/Page, and Bedau and Humphrey's collection. If you disagree, tell me why. Sometimes it seems to me that people prefer to think of emergence as mysterious. It's not.
-- Russ On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Nicholas Thompson < [email protected]> wrote: > I should have said that the properties of a, b, c and E are synchronic. > Nick > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology, > Clark University ([email protected]) > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/> > > > > > > [Original Message] > > From: russell standish <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]>; The Friday Morning Applied Complexity > Coffee Group <[email protected]> > > Date: 4/29/2009 6:14:43 PM > > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] emergence, again > > > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 09:33:42PM -0600, Nicholas Thompson wrote: > > > Here > > > is the kind of problem that bothers philosophers: let a, b, and c > > > constitute macro-entity E and let the behavior of E. be controled by > the > > > properties and intereactions of a, b and c. Now, let one of the > behaviors > > > of E to control the behavior of a, b, or c. Is there a problem here? > > > > > > Nick > > > > > > > No. It sounds like a perfectly reasonable way of building a control > > system. Should there be a problem? > > > > -- > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > > Mathematics > > UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [email protected] > > Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ============================================================ > 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 >
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