Re: [Fis] _ Re: _ FIS discusion

2016-05-01 Thread Loet Leydesdorff
Dear colleagues, In my opinion, one can distinguish between the order of generation and emerging control. While consciousness (perhaps) arises from matter in terms of its generation, and language perhaps from movements, once these next-order systems levels have arisen, they tend to take

[Fis] _ Re: _ Re: _ FIS discusion

2016-05-01 Thread Mark Johnson
Dear FIS colleagues, I'm sympathetic to Maxine's comment: "untethered observations and meticulous descriptions are the cornerstone of any life science. One is not out there trying to make others as you want them to be, but attempting to know them as they are. The task is precisely a challenge

Re: [Fis] _ FIS discusion

2016-05-01 Thread Bruno Marchal
Dear Maxine, On 30 Apr 2016, at 19:37, Maxine Sheets-Johnstone wrote: To FIS colleagues, First, an open-to-all response to Lou Kaufmann: Thank you for your lengthy tutorial—some time back--but I wonder and am genuinely puzzled given the “phenomenology-life sciences theme” why none of

[Fis] _ Concerns regarding a questioning of Goedel's theorem . . .

2016-05-01 Thread Maxine Sheets-Johnstone
To all concerned colleagues, I appreciate the fact that discussions should be conversations about issues, but this particular issue and in particular the critique cited in my posting warrant extended exposition in order to show the reasoning upholding the critique. I am thus quoting from