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On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 1:22 PM, MarshaV <[email protected]> wrote: > > Oh, and: Nice try. > > > On Aug 25, 2010, at 8:16 AM, MarshaV wrote: > >> >> >> Ah well, it's Ian who decides when an issue is too contentious >> to consider a wikipedia quote. >> >> So all I have to say is: that's interesting. >> >> >> >> On Aug 25, 2010, at 8:04 AM, Ian Glendinning wrote: >> >>> Marsha asked of Krim ... >>> >>>> The MoQ is based on Darwin and the Tao? Anyone besides you think >>>> that this is so? >>> >>> [IG] Yes, clearly. >>> >>>> First, evolution has changed considerably since the days >>>> of Darwin's publications, and the evolution of species is quite different >>>> than >>>> the evolution of static patterns. >>> >>> [IG] Clearly again, the model of evolution has itself evolved as both >>> Darwin and Pirsig would predict and continues to do so. I see no >>> difference in the evolutionary processes .... I regularly use the word >>> "species" to denote any static pattern. Species are "special" in the >>> sense of being distinct, long-lived over multiple generations, and >>> therefore self-sustaining, repairing / reproducing over many >>> generations .... in all levels above the organic (not just >>> biological). >>> >>> Clearly Darwin didn't have the benefit of a Taoist monism at the >>> heart of his thinking .... GOF phyisicalist scientific objectivism >>> only .... but see above. Neither Darwin nor Pirsig, nor any of us >>> (their interpreters) have it 100% right, that would be terminal. I >>> tend to be less critical of that fact, but I wouldn't argue for >>> perfection. >>> >>> Ian >> >> >> >> >> ___ >> >> >> 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/md/archives.html > > > > ___ > > > 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/md/archives.html > 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/md/archives.html
