Hi Platt,
> Emergentism, whether British or Hungarian, suffers from a fatal flaw. It > is entirely bereft of scientific explanation because it fails to identify > deterministic causes or "mechanisms" for the phenomenon in question. > To say that this or that property "emerges" is to say nothing more than > from A comes B. It is a description, not an explanation. Or, if posited as > an explanation it amounts to "Oops." I agree that "emergence" does not explain evolution with mechanisms or deterministic causes, but neither does the MOQ. The idea of emergence is basically anti-reductionism. It says, stop insisting that a deterministic mechanism on a lower level must explain everything worth knowing on a higher level. It says advances in physics will never make biological science obsolete. The MOQ agrees. Best, Steve Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
