<groan>
Knot to needle you put I think you are throwing pearls before twine.
</groan>
Robert
Nicholas Thompson wrote:
Eric,
I like the example. Thank you.
Doug
I stipulate that you don't like this topic. But wait a minute! You
responded to the thread!? That's odd!
If interested, the reading this week is the aforementioned Bedau.
Best,
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University ([email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
<http://home.earthlink.net/%7Enickthompson/naturaldesigns/>
----- Original Message -----
*From:* Douglas Roberts <mailto:[email protected]>
*To: *The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
<mailto:[email protected]>
*Sent:* 9/25/2009 8:22:04 AM
*Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] Inquiry to Emergence Group
Groan.
What possible gain will come of trying to add yet more baggage to
that already overloaded, mythical, magical "emergence" word by
trying to force-fit the process of knitting a sweater on to it?
--Doug
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 7:08 AM, ERIC P. CHARLES <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Greetings,
This morning, I saw an interesting emergence problem on a
children's television show, and thought I would send a query
to the group.
As is prone to happen, a character received a knitted sweater,
which promptly caught on something and began to unravel. By
the time they noticed it was just one long string. They then
followed the string back, ending up with a large ball of
string. They had the string, which is all the sweater was; but
of course, they did not in any reasonable sense have "the
sweater".
I was wondering how the different authors in the book would
describe this situation. In particular, it would seem natural
to say that the string isn't the sweater BECAUSE the sweater
is "emergent".
Hopefully that example is of interest to more than just me,
Eric
P.S. Look Nick, I maintained your thread dominance request!
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