Hi , Ian, yes , crisp and clear , and also very good written of you, you'r a good formulator.
strangely , your concluding words in the end-sentence, are about the same as Stephen Hawking once used towards the dynamical caracter of the univers,...hope i can find it back, i will set this aside for now. greetzz, Quality. Adrie 2010/8/25 Ian Glendinning <[email protected]> > 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 > -- parser 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
