I am WAY out of my depth here. In fact, you guys have dragged my original
thought out beyond its depth and are in danger of drowning it. My point is a
descriptive one: however we come to explain it, there is (or perhaps isn’t) a
holistic property of natural systems called design which, if we
It seems to me you're still directly on topic. Nick's emphasis on hierarchy
leads directly to (forgive me, here) the *flatness* or flattenability of
dynamical systems equations versus whatever units multi-level selection might
operate over.
It's probably just another fit of apophenia. But I
Hi Steve,
Of course, my first rule is that people should do whatever they want as long as
it doesn’t hurt anybody else, so far be it from me to pass judgment on anyone’s
choice of ways to scope words. That can be guided by what you want the
conversation to do in which you use them. That
