Jeff D., Helmut, lists,
I agree, I found myself using, or at any rate thinking of, the word
'self' ambiguously, so I turned around and de-emphasized it. 'Self' goes
back to pretty basic ideas, as in 'self and other', 'same and other',
'one and another', 'oneself', 'selfsame', etc. Through the
Helmut, Ben, Lists,
I agree with what you say here, Helmut: Pitifully, this sort of distinction
is not a scientific one. What I mean in saying this is that I don't believe
that the distinctions you are making are problematic for the practice of doing
science. That is, scientists don't start
Jeff wrote:
It isn't clear how this logical conception of the self is related to the
chemical or biological conception of a system that is auto (or self)
organizing.
One concrete example of self is what Stan recently described so clearly
-- as the activities of the neural networks of our brain,
