Dear Robert and FIS colleagues,
On 12 Nov 2012, at 16:35, Robert Ulanowicz wrote:
Dear Pedro,
Roman Littlefield is coming out with a volume along those lines
entitled Beyond Mechanism
http://www.academia.edu/1141907/Beyond_Mechanism_Putting_Life_Back_Into_Biology
As for our Chinese
Bruno said --
but this does not mean that Mechanism is
a good *explanation* of anything. On the contrary, I prefer to look at
it as a tool, perhaps a simplifying tool, to *formulate* the problems
(notably the mind-body problem), to explain it is not yet solved, even
in that simplifying frame,
Hey Stan - I agree with the way you characterize the role of logic as a
linguistic mechanism. Logic connects one set of statements, the premises, with
another set of statements, the conclusion. Without challenging your remarks I
would suggest that like the case with the poets it is sometimes
Tuesday, November 13, 2012, 3:57:10 PM, Bob wrote:
... But for me the interesting phenomena where the logic of
cause and effect does not hold is the case of emergence and
self-organization. With an emergent system in which the properties
of the system can not be derived from, reduced to or
Dear Joseph and FIS colleagues,
I will not argue here for or against computationalism (digital mechanism),
because I do not understand how complex biological, cognitive and social
processes can be computable, if no algorithm can be written for them. I speak
of the processes themselves, not
