Russ,
In his article, The Companion in Bird's Life, Konrad Lorenz took after
MacDougall for his failure to realize that while behavior is directed, and
behavior has a function, it is never the function toward which behvior is
directed. W Powers makes a very similar point in his analysis of con
I think we're asking the same question. I want people to ask themselves why
they are asking about emergence. What is it that brings them to that point.
Isn't that what you're saying?
In any event, I have read EVO-DEVO. Very good book -- as are his other
books.
On a completely different subject,
Hi, Russ,
It's my least favorite of the seven questions. To me, the question my be
recast as, "What light's your wick in the world to which the label emergence
has been attached.?" I know you wouldn't know if from my posts on Friam but I
spent most of my career working as a research scientis
I think the mark of a truly educated (smart, knowledgeable) person is
the ability to escape from academia and therefore allow oneself the
space to hold more than one idea in his or her head at once. to
compare and contrast, virtually impossible in academia. So---as a
recovering academic, I
Point of geography, it's Garcia and Acequia Madre,
-- rec --
On Sep 9, 2009 5:51 PM, "Nicholas Thompson"
wrote:
All,
The emergence seminar, such as it is, will have its first meeting this
thursday (tomorrow) at Downtown Subcription (which is at Garcia and Agua
Fria). I suggest that we devote
Since I won't be there, let me suggest a pre-requisite activity.
Discuss why do you (or anyone else) want to define emergence?
In saying that I'm not suggesting that *emergence *should not be defined --
although I now think that it is unfortunate that the word has become so
widely used. What I wa
Sorry everybody: 4 pm, Garcia and ACEQUIA MADRE.
Thanks Owen,
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University (nthomp...@clarku.edu)
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/===
All,
The emergence seminar, such as it is, will have its first meeting this thursday
(tomorrow) at Downtown Subcription (which is at Garcia and Agua Fria). I
suggest that we devote the seminar, at least in its early stages, to the
collection, EMERGENCE. Why a collection? Why a seminar? Bec
